vs
0:10
overall capability wins (0 ties across 10 scored). o4-mini leads overall.
- Reasoning0:5
- Coding0:2
- Arena0:1
- Pricing3:0
- Speed2:0
- Specs0:2
Verdict
o4-mini leads coding (widest gap: +54.6 on Aider); o4-mini ranks higher on LMArena (+73 Elo); o4-mini offers ~1.6x larger context (200K vs 128K).
- o4-mini leads coding (widest gap: +54.6 on Aider)
- o4-mini ranks higher on LMArena (+73 Elo)
- o4-mini offers ~1.6x larger context (200K vs 128K)
- o4-mini allows ~6.1x more max output (100K vs 16K)
- GPT-4o Mini is ~7.3x cheaper on a blended token basis than o4-mini
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- GPT-4o Mini
- $0.30
- o4-mini
- $2.20
GPT-4o Mini is about 7.3x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
OpenAI
OpenAI
Family
GPT-4 / o-series
GPT-4 / o-series
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Open weights
No
No
Release
Jul 18, 2024
Apr 16, 2025
Knowledge cutoff
2023-10
-
API / provider
OpenAI
OpenAI
Modalities
text, image → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
128K
200K
Max output
16K
100K
Parameters
—
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.15
$1.10
Output $/1M
$0.60
$4.40
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.26
$1.93
Speed
tok/s
150
90
TTFT (s)
0.2
0.7
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
64.8
—
GPQA Diamond
42.6
78.4
Humanity's Last Exam
4.2
16.5
AIME 2025
14.7
92.7
MATH-500
78.9
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
—
24.8
AA-LCR v1.1
—
61.0
CritPt
—
0.6
MMMU-Pro
41.5
69.2
IFBench
31.0
68.7
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
45.0
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
35.5
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
5.6
—
Aider Polyglot
3.6
58.2
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
46.1
—
SciCode
22.9
46.5
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
27.5
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,318
1,391
| Metric | GPT-4o Mini | o4-mini | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | OpenAI | OpenAI | — |
| Family | GPT-4 / o-series | GPT-4 / o-series | — |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | No | No | — |
| Release | Jul 18, 2024 | Apr 16, 2025 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2023-10 | - | — |
| API / provider | OpenAI | OpenAI | — |
| Modalities | text, image → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 128K | 200K | B +72K |
| Max output | 16K | 100K | B +84K |
| Parameters | — | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.15 | $1.10 | A +$0.95 |
| Output $/1M | $0.60 | $4.40 | A +$3.80 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.26 | $1.93 | A +$1.66 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 150 | 90 | A +60 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.2 | 0.7 | A +0.50 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | 64.8 | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 42.6 | 78.4 | B +35.8 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.2 | 16.5 | B +12.3 pts |
| AIME 2025 | 14.7 | 92.7 | B +78.0 pts |
| MATH-500 | 78.9 | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | — | 24.8 | — |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | — | 61.0 | — |
| CritPt | — | 0.6 | — |
| MMMU-Pro | 41.5 | 69.2 | B +27.7 pts |
| IFBench | 31.0 | 68.7 | B +37.7 pts |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 45.0 | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 35.5 | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 5.6 | — | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 3.6 | 58.2 | B +54.6 pts |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | 46.1 | — | — |
| SciCode | 22.9 | 46.5 | B +23.6 pts |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | 27.5 | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,318 | 1,391 | B +73 Elo |
GPT-4o Mini
- Context
- 128K / 16K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $0.15 / $0.60
- Speed
- 150 tok/s · 0.2s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Proprietary
Legacy budget multimodal GPT-4o SKU - still widely embedded in apps that have not migrated to GPT-4.1 Nano / Mini.
o4-mini
- Context
- 200K / 100K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $1.10 / $4.40
- Speed
- 90 tok/s · 0.7s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Proprietary
Cost-efficient o-series reasoning model for STEM and coding with lower latency than o3.
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