Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
o4-mini leads with 37.6% higher average benchmark score. o4-mini offers 155.6K more tokens in context window than GPT-4o mini. GPT-4o mini is $4.75 cheaper per million tokens. Overall, o4-mini is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
OpenAI
GPT-4o Mini was created as a smaller, more efficient variant of GPT-4o, designed to bring multimodal capabilities to applications requiring faster response times and lower costs. Built to democratize access to advanced vision and text understanding, it enables developers to build sophisticated applications with reduced resource requirements.
OpenAI
o4-mini was created as part of the next generation of OpenAI's reasoning models, designed to continue advancing the balance between analytical capability and operational efficiency. Built to bring cutting-edge reasoning techniques to applications requiring quick turnaround, it represents the evolution of compact reasoning-focused models.
9 months newer

GPT-4o mini
OpenAI
2024-07-18

o4-mini
OpenAI
2025-04-16
Cost per million tokens (USD)

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Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

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Performance comparison across key benchmark categories

GPT-4o mini

o4-mini
GPT-4o mini
2023-10-01
o4-mini
2024-05-31
Available providers and their performance metrics

GPT-4o mini
Azure

o4-mini

GPT-4o mini

o4-mini

GPT-4o mini

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OpenAI