GPT-4o-mini

GPT-4o mini is OpenAI's newest model after [GPT-4 Omni](/models/openai/gpt-4o), supporting both text and image inputs with text outputs. As their most advanced small model, it is many multiples more affordable...

by OpenAI

Overview

Quick stats across all benchmark runs.

Score

14 benchmarks

Avg Latency

11.0s

18 requests

Pricing

$0.15 in / $0.60 out

per 1M tokens

Context

128K

tokens

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Benchmark Performance

How this model performs across different benchmarks

BenchmarkScoreRank
Money Boy Cultural Literacy Test
62%
15 / 107

Price vs Performance

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Score Over Time

Performance trends across all benchmark runs

Benchmark Activity

Number of benchmark runs over time

Get started with this model using OpenRouter

import { OpenRouter } from "@openrouter/sdk";

const openrouter = new OpenRouter({
  apiKey: "<OPENROUTER_API_KEY>"
});

const completion = await openrouter.chat.completions.create({
  model: "openai/gpt-4o-mini",
  messages: [
    {
      role: "user",
      content: "Hello!"
    }
  ]
});

console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

Get your API key at openrouter.ai/keys

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