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OpenAI o4-mini is a fast, cost-efficient reasoning model designed for high-throughput tasks that benefit from advanced tool use, multimodal input, and strong analytical performance. It represents a major upgrade in the o-series line, offering high accuracy in math, coding, and visual tasks—all while maintaining low latency and usage cost.
Key Features
- Optimized for math, code, and visual reasoning
- Agentic tool use: able to use browsing, Python, and image generation tools within ChatGPT or via the API
- Natural and conversational, with improved instruction following and memory
- Ideal for applications requiring quick, reliable reasoning at scale
Benchmark Performance
- AIME 2025 (no tools): 92.7%
- AIME 2025 (with tools): 100% consensus@8
- GPQA Diamond: 81.4%
- SWE-Bench Verified: 68.1%
- MMMU (Multimodal understanding): 81.6%
- MathVista (Visual math): 72.0%
- Scale MultiChallenge (instruction following): 43%
- Humanity’s Last Exam (deep research with tools): 26.6%
Ideal Use Cases
- Real-time assistant applications requiring light compute
- Structured reasoning with tool use (web browsing, Python)
- Lightweight document analysis or visual interpretation
- High-throughput workflows with tight latency budgets
Access and Usage
- Available in the Chat Completions API and Responses API
- Supported in ChatGPT (Free: Think mode) and ChatGPT Team, Pro, Enterprise, and Edu
- Accessible via function calling and tool integration in custom applications