OpenAI o4-mini is a compact reasoning model in the o-series, optimized for fast, cost-efficient performance while retaining strong multimodal and agentic capabilities. It supports tool use and demonstrates competitive reasoning and coding performance across benchmarks like AIME (99.5% with Python) and SWE-bench, outperforming its predecessor o3-mini and even approaching o3 in some domains. Despite its smaller size, o4-mini exhibits high accuracy in STEM tasks, visual problem solving (e.g., MathVista, MMMU), and code editing. It is especially well-suited for high-throughput scenarios where latency or cost is critical. Thanks to its efficient architecture and refined reinforcement learning training, o4-mini can chain tools, generate structured outputs, and solve multi-step tasks with minimal delay—often in under a minute.

Pricing

Price per input token: $0.0000011

Price per output token: $0.0000044

Usage Example

NOTE: BrainLink is compatible with the OpenAI API, which allows you to use the OpenAI SDK even with non-OpenAI models

import OpenAI from "openai";
const userAccessToken = await BrainLink.getUserToken();
const openai = new OpenAI({
    baseURL: "https://www.brainlink.dev/api/v1",
    apiKey: userAccessToken,
});
const completion = await openai.chat.completions.create({
    model: "openai/o4-mini",
    messages: [
      { role: "user", content: "Hi! How are you today?" }
    ],
});