OpenAI

o4-mini

o4-mini is a proprietary model from OpenAI, released Apr 16, 2025. It ranks #206 of 351 on the LMArena text leaderboard with a rating of 1353. It costs $1.10 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens, with a 200K-token context window.

LMArena text1353
Rank#206/351
95% interval1349–1357
Votes44.9K
Developer
OpenAI
Released
Apr 16, 2025
Context window
200K
Price in / out, per 1M tokens
$1.10 / $4.40
Weights
Proprietary
Inputs
Images, Text, Files
Reasoning
Yes
Tool use
Yes
o4-mini, LMArena text rating over time
13301343135513681380Apr 25Sep 25Jan 26Jun 26Oct 26
Latesto4-mini 1353

The rating LMArena published at each update since Apr 23, 2025. Ratings move as votes come in and new models join.

Benchmarks

BenchmarkScore barAccuracyRankCost / test
LiveCodeBenchCoding82.21%55 / 143$1.1 / $4.4
MedCodeMedicine33.79%84 / 107$1.1 / $4.4
MedQAMedicine96.02%9 / 92$1.1 / $4.4
GPQA DiamondReasoning74.50%85 / 138$1.1 / $4.4
MMLU-ProReasoning80.56%88 / 138$1.1 / $4.4
AIMEReasoning83.67%41 / 96$1.1 / $4.4
MMMUReasoning79.67%46 / 93$1.1 / $4.4

Vals AI, as of Oct 24, 2026.

LMArena, by category

LeaderboardRatingRankVotes
TextLMArena1353206 / 35144.9K
CodingLMArena1368208 / 3468.6K
MathLMArena1389178 / 3392.9K
Creative writingLMArena1294225 / 3495.8K
Instruction followingLMArena1320215 / 35111.9K
Hard promptsLMArena1350211 / 35119.4K
Multi-turnLMArena1350204 / 3497.7K
Long queriesLMArena1315236 / 3308.6K
ExpertLMArena1343204 / 3052.3K
Legal and governmentIndustries1350207 / 3252.7K
Medicine and healthcareIndustries1362201 / 3252.5K
Business and financeIndustries1325219 / 3447K
ChineseLanguages1354217 / 3283K
SpanishLanguages1346199 / 249996
GermanLanguages1336184 / 2611.2K
FrenchLanguages1364183 / 252614
JapaneseLanguages1308157 / 2361.1K
VisionLMArena119498 / 14641.3K

LMArena, CC BY 4.0, as of Oct 22, 2026. Where a model is rated at several effort levels, its best is shown.

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OpenAI

The lab behind GPT and ChatGPT, which brought large language models to hundreds of millions of people. Founded 2015, based in San Francisco. openai.com

Questions

Who makes o4-mini?

o4-mini is made by OpenAI, founded 2015 and based in San Francisco.

How much does o4-mini cost?

$1.10 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens, at its provider’s list price.

What is o4-mini’s context window?

200K tokens (200,000).

How does o4-mini rank?

#206 of 351 on LMArena’s text leaderboard, rated 1353 (95% interval 1349–1357) from 44,851 votes, as of Oct 22, 2026.

Is o4-mini open source?

No. o4-mini is proprietary and served through its provider’s API.

Sources

Every number on this page comes from these sources; models without a published number show none. Download the data. Cite as “Nexus Explorer, nexus.inc/models”.