Frequently asked questions
How much does the GPT-4o mini API cost?
GPT-4o mini costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.6 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.075 per million (50% off).
How much does a typical chat message cost with GPT-4o mini?
A short chat message (about 500 input and 250 output tokens) costs roughly $0.0002 with GPT-4o mini. At 1,000 such requests a day, that is about $6.75 per month.
Is GPT-4o mini cheap compared to similar models?
GPT-4o mini has the #4 cheapest input rate of the 26 models we track. On a mixed workload (10K input / 2K output), it costs $0.0027 per request, versus $0.0018 for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite.
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Last updated 2026-08-03. Prices verified againstOpenAI's official pricing page; see themethodology.