o4 Mini Deep Research
OpenAI o4 Mini Deep Research — pricing, 200k context window, API cost calculator and alternatives.
By OpenAI
Specs
- Provider
- OpenAI
- Slug
- openai/o4-mini-deep-research
- Capabilities
- vision, tools, json_mode
Pricing freshness
- Tier
- standard
- Currency
- USD
- As of
- 2026-05-08 17:08 UTC
Pricing history
Tracking o4 Mini Deep Research pricing since 2026-05-08. We'll plot the chart here once it changes.
Quickstart — call o4 Mini Deep Research from your app
curl https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" \
-d '{
"model": "o4-mini-deep-research",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
}'Official docs: https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/chat
# pip install openai
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.openai.com/v1",
api_key=os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"],
)
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
model="o4-mini-deep-research",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)Official docs: https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/chat
// npm install openai
import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
baseURL: "https://api.openai.com/v1",
apiKey: process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY,
});
const resp = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "o4-mini-deep-research",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" }],
});
console.log(resp.choices[0].message.content);Official docs: https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/chat
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Frequently asked questions
What is o4 Mini Deep Research?
o4 Mini Deep Research is a large language model API from OpenAI with a 200k-token context window. It costs $2 per 1M input tokens and $8 per 1M output tokens.
How much does o4 Mini Deep Research cost?
o4 Mini Deep Research is priced at $2 per 1M input tokens and $8 per 1M output tokens via the OpenAI API. A 50/50 input/output workload of 1M total tokens costs about $5.
What is the context window of o4 Mini Deep Research?
o4 Mini Deep Research supports up to 200k tokens of context per request — roughly 400 pages of English text or 25000 lines of code at a typical density.
Does o4 Mini Deep Research support vision, tool use, or JSON mode?
o4 Mini Deep Research supports vision, tool/function calling, and structured JSON mode.
Who makes o4 Mini Deep Research?
o4 Mini Deep Research is built and operated by OpenAI. Pricing, context window, and capabilities on this page are refreshed nightly from OpenAI's public catalog.
Can I self-host o4 Mini Deep Research?
o4 Mini Deep Research is API-only — its weights are not publicly distributed by OpenAI, so it cannot be self-hosted today.