Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
o4 mini leads with 15.4% higher average benchmark score. o4 mini offers 155.6K more tokens in context window than GPT-4o. o4 mini is $7.00 cheaper per million tokens. Overall, o4 mini is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
OpenAI
GPT-4o, released by OpenAI in May 2024, is a multimodal large language model from the GPT-4 family that natively processes text, image, and audio inputs in a single end-to-end model. It features a 128K token context window and demonstrated competitive performance across coding, reasoning, and vision benchmarks at its release. GPT-4o targets general-purpose assistant applications, vision-enabled workflows, and use cases requiring low-latency multimodal understanding.
OpenAI
OpenAI o4 mini, released by OpenAI in April 2025, is a compact reasoning model from the o4 family that combines multimodal understanding with efficient chain-of-thought processing. It features a 200K token context window and native image understanding, with strong performance on mathematics and coding benchmarks relative to its inference cost. o4 mini targets cost-sensitive applications requiring both visual reasoning and mathematical accuracy.
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GPT-4o
OpenAI
2024-05-13

o4 mini
OpenAI
2025-04-16
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks
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o4 mini
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories
GPT-4o
o4 mini
GPT-4o
2024-04
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-4o
OpenAI
o4 mini
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o4 mini
GPT-4o
o4 mini
OpenAI