o4 Mini Deep Research
o4 Mini Deep Research is worth evaluating for rag, long context, and vision when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating rag, long context, and vision
- Workloads that can use a 200k context window
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Workloads where another current model has stronger sourced task evidence
- Family
- o4-mini
- Released
- 2025-04-16
- Context
- 200k
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2024-06
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
Cheapest of 1 route · OpenRouter
About
OpenAI: o4 Mini Deep Research available via OpenRouter. Pricing: $2/1M input, $8/1M output.
o4 Mini Deep Research is a proprietary model in the o4-mini family. The structured metadata tracks a 200k-token context window, multimodal input, and structured outputs. This page tracks provider routes through OpenRouter, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $2 input and $8 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for o4 Mini Deep Research yet.
Top use-case fit
RAG
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Long context
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Vision
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $2.00 | $8.00 | Serverless |
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor RAG
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of o4 Mini Deep Research?
o4 Mini Deep Research has a context window of 200k tokens.
How much does o4 Mini Deep Research cost?
o4 Mini Deep Research is available at $2/1M input tokens through OpenRouter.
When was o4 Mini Deep Research released?
o4 Mini Deep Research was released on 2025-04-16.
Which providers offer o4 Mini Deep Research?
o4 Mini Deep Research is available from 1 provider: OpenRouter.
Cheapest of 1 route · OpenRouter