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OpenRouter o4-miniPricing & API costs

Fast, cost-efficient reasoning model, succeeded by GPT-5 Mini

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OPENROUTER CHANNEL
Published rates

$1.10 input · $0.275 cached input · $4.40 output / 1M tokens

Official pricing

Context window

200,000 tokens

Maximum output

100,000 tokens

Release date

2025-04-16

API model ID

openai/o4-mini

Model overview

Understand the model before estimating your workload.

Use the model ID openai/o4-mini through OpenRouter. The prices and limits on this page apply to that specific listing, with source data checked on 2026-10-12.

OpenRouter o4-mini has a published context window of 200,000 tokens. The maximum output for this channel is 100,000 tokens. Budget context space for your prompt, conversation history, retrieved material, and the response. Context capacity and output limits are different; your input and response must fit within the request limits. A larger window does not make those tokens free.

This listing covers o4-mini through OpenRouter. Its model ID and rates belong to that channel. Check routing and endpoint availability before treating a direct API and a routed call as interchangeable.

Pricing

Rates are grouped by usage type and available tier.

Per 1M tokens

Input

$1.10

Cached input

$0.275

Output

$4.40

Batch pricing

OpenRouter has separate batch model IDs; those rates are not included in the standard listing.

How billing works

The details that turn a token rate into an actual bill.

Use the published billing unit

This model uses / 1M tokens. Do not substitute a text-token estimate for image, audio, video, or document charges.

Cache hits have their own rate

The listed cached-input price is $0.275 per million tokens. Reusing a prompt does not automatically qualify: use the provider's reported cached-token count, and account for any cache-write or storage charges.

Check discounts and rate tiers

No batch multiplier is applied to the examples on this page. Check the pricing source before assuming an asynchronous job receives a discount. Review the provider's pricing terms for workload-specific conditions.

Account for the complete workflow

Retries, follow-up calls, and agent tool loops increase request counts. Search, storage, and other tool charges can be billed separately from model inference. Use actual API usage logs to calibrate a budget before scaling traffic.

Capabilities and limits

What the API supports and where limits apply.

Provider
OpenRouter
Model type
Text tokens
Family
gpt
Access
OpenRouter
Modalities
Text · Image
Context window
200,000 tokens
Max output
100,000 tokens
Released
2025-04-16
Deprecation date
Not announced

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The same model can have a different ID, price, or output limit depending on how you access it. These are the channels currently tracked in this catalog; they are not a complete list of every hosting provider.

Direct provider APIo4-mini
Deprecated

Max output: 100,000

Text: $1.10 input · $0.275 cached input · $4.40 output / 1M tokens

OpenRouterCurrent pageopenai/o4-mini
Deprecated

Max output: 100,000

$1.10 input · $0.275 cached input · $4.40 output / 1M tokens

Sources

Official pages and the date this information was checked.

Last checked
2026-10-12
Source links
2

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OpenRouter pricing checked on 2026-10-12: $1.10 input · $0.275 cached input · $4.40 output / 1M tokens. These are OpenRouter channel rates; a different endpoint may have different pricing.

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