AI Model Atlas / OpenAI
o4 Mini (batch)
One million input tokens cost $0.55 and one million output tokens $2.20. Context window: 200k tokens, about 333 A4 pages.
What it costs in practice
Pricing per million tokens doesn't mean anything to anyone, so I convert it to three tasks that people actually give to models. The usage assumptions are listed for each row so you can verify them.
| Task | Input | Output | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1500-word articlebrief plus finished text in English | 1,500 tokens | 2,200 tokens | $0.0057 |
| 100 chat queries700 tokens per question and 400 per answer | 70,000 tokens | 40,000 tokens | $0.13 |
| Hour of work with an agentagent reads repository and writes fixes | 250,000 tokens | 30,000 tokens | $0.20 |
Technical details
| Provider | OpenAI |
| Modalities | image + text + files → text |
| Context window | 200k tokens (~333 A4 pages) |
| Maximum response | 100k tokens |
| Step-by-step reasoning | yes |
| Tool calling | yes |
| Forced JSON format | yes |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2024-06-30 |
| Cache read | $0.14 per million |
| Content moderation | yes, provider filters |
How it compares to the rest
The database contains 469 models. In terms of input pricing o4 Mini (batch) is more expensive than 52 percent of paid models. A longer context window is available in 337 models.
Input price history
2026-09-08 · $0.552026-11-11 · $0.55
The chart shows the price of a million input tokens on consecutive measurement days. History starts on the day I launched the atlas and grows with each day. I don't backfill data.
Alternatives at a similar price
Models from other providers whose cost for the same article comes out closest.
| Model | Input / M | Output / M | 1500-word article | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral Large 4Mistral AI | $0.70 | $2.10 | $0.0057 | 1M |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423DeepSeek | $0.96 | $1.91 | $0.0056 | 1M |
| GLM 4.7Z.ai | $0.60 | $2.20 | $0.0057 | 205k |
| GLM 4.5Z.ai | $0.60 | $2.20 | $0.0057 | 131k |
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