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GPT-4o-mini

by OpenAI

GPT-4o mini is OpenAI's newest model after [GPT-4 Omni](/models/openai/gpt-4o), supporting both text and image inputs with text outputs. As their most advanced small model, it is m

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GPT-4o-mini

Added 10 July 2026

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Overview

GPT-4o mini is OpenAI's newest model after [GPT-4 Omni](/models/openai/gpt-4o), supporting both text and image inputs with text outputs. As their most advanced small model, it is many multiples more affordable...

Best for

Best for
Cost-efficient product features and multimodal volume

Use cases

  • chat UIs
  • vision QA
  • extraction
  • light coding agents

How to use / API access

Call via OpenRouter with model id `openai/gpt-4o-mini`.

  • openrouter · openai/gpt-4o-mini Docs

OpenRouter id: openai/gpt-4o-mini

Benchmarks

  • Coding Index (artificial-analysis) : 11.4 index
  • Agentic Index (artificial-analysis) : 1 index

Enterprise DNA angle

Many EDNA product surfaces start on 4o-mini; Omni keeps fallbacks and evals consistent.

Notes

GPT-4o-mini is listed in the EDNA Models directory from the OpenRouter catalogue.

Pros

  • Low cost multimodal workhorse
  • Huge ecosystem and SDK familiarity
  • Solid for product features at scale

Cons

  • Not the top pick for hardest reasoning
  • Closed weights