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GPT-4o mini

by OpenAI
GPT-4 family
Parameters
Context window
128K tokens
Released
2024-07-18
Input price / 1M tok
$0.15
Output price / 1M tok
$0.60
Modality
multimodal, vision, tools

About GPT-4o mini

OpenAI's small-tier — cheap and fast, with vision, tool use, and structured outputs. Replaced GPT-3.5 Turbo. Best for high-QPS chat, classification, and simple extraction.

Strengths

  • Cheap
  • Fast
  • Vision
  • Wide tooling

Weaknesses

  • Weaker reasoning
  • Superseded by GPT-5 nano/mini on some tasks
  • No audio

Best for

Batch classificationSimple chatCheap RAG
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