Overview
GPT-4o-mini is OpenAI's most cost-efficient model, designed for high-volume tasks at minimal cost. Despite its small size, it delivers strong performance on everyday tasks while being 60% cheaper than GPT-3.5 Turbo.
Context Window
128K tokens
Knowledge Cutoff
October 2023
Pricing (Input)
$0.15 / 1M tokens
Pricing (Output)
$0.60 / 1M tokens
✅Strengths
- ✓Extremely cost-effective for high-volume tasks
- ✓Fast response times, low latency
- ✓Multimodal support (text + images)
- ✓128K context window at budget price
- ✓Great for simple Q&A, summarization, classification
⚠️Weaknesses
- ✗Less capable at complex reasoning
- ✗Not ideal for coding or technical tasks
- ✗May produce lower-quality creative writing
- ✗Closed weights - API only
Best Use Cases
💬 Chatbots
Customer support, FAQs, simple assistants
📊 Classification
Sentiment analysis, categorization, tagging
📝 Summarization
Document summaries, key point extraction
🔍 Search
Query understanding, retrieval augmentation
🌐 Translation
Basic multilingual tasks
📧 Email Drafting
Simple responses, templates
Benchmarks
MMLU82.0%
HumanEval85.6%
GSM8K88.2%