Scheduled for retirement on Nov 19, 2026. Still available at the prices below until then.
Context
200K
Max output
100K
Serving providers
5
Cheapest input
$1.10 /1M
On-demand listed rates, OpenRouter routed quotes and Vercel reseller quotes. Enterprise commitments (committed-use discounts, provisioned throughput, negotiated rates) can be materially lower.

Benchmarks

independent evaluations · source: Artificial Analysis
Speed & latency
Output speed
185 t/s
tokens / second
Time to first token
6.84s
latency
Headline indices
Individual benchmarks · click a row for effort variants
BenchmarkBest scoreEffortCost / task
GPQA Diamond75%default—
Humanity's Last Exam8%default—
LiveCodeBench72%default—
MMLU-ProFrozen Aug 18, 202679%default—
SciCodeArtificial Analysis did not report this score in its latest run on Oct 14, 202640%——
TerminalBench Hard7%default—
τ²-bench29%default—
Artificial Analysis last published scores for this benchmark on Aug 18, 2026. Scores here are frozen at that date, and models released since are not on it.

Pricing by serving provider

standard tier · per 1M tokens · click a provider to expand
Serving providerInput /1MOutput /1MEndpoints
Azure$1.10$4.401
Gradient AI$1.10$4.401
OpenAICheapest$1.10$4.401
Standardo3-mini
ComponentUnitStandardBatch
Text cached in/1M tok$0.55—
Text input/1M tok$1.10$0.55
Text output/1M tok$4.40$2.20
OpenRouter$1.10$4.401
VercelVercel reseller quote$1.10$4.401
OpenRouter (batch)$0.55$2.201

Price history

listed seller prices, input and output per 1M tokens
Input Output
$0.00$2.00$4.00$6.00Jan 31Jul 30Aug 9Sep 15$4.40$1.10

Cost calculator

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Model IDs

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openai/o3-mini:batchazure/o3-minigradient_ai/openai-o3-miniopenai/o3-minio3-miniopenai/o3-mini

Frequently asked questions

o3 Mini pricing, context and availability

Is o3 Mini still available?

Yes. o3 Mini is scheduled for retirement on 2026-11-19.

How much does o3 Mini cost?

o3 Mini costs $1.10 per 1M input tokens from OpenAI, and $4.40 per 1M output tokens from OpenAI.

What is the context window of o3 Mini?

o3 Mini accepts up to 200K tokens of context and can return up to 100K output tokens.

Which providers serve o3 Mini?

o3 Mini is available from 5 serving providers, each with its own pricing and model ID. OpenAI is currently the cheapest.

What can o3 Mini do?

o3 Mini supports tool use, reasoning, prompt caching and structured output.

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