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OpenAI · gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18

Provider prices, cheapest first

All official and inference price observations

OpenAI · gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18 official price: not yet recorded. Cheapest inference provider: OpenRouter, input 0.15, output 0.6 USD per million tokens. Cheapest relay: api1.zhiyunai168.com, group "Azure" 0.49 USD_CREDIT per million total tokens (credit price, not cash, observed 2026-10-23). 72 sites have comparable prices; 120 sites list this model.Relay blended price uses 75% input and 25% output.

Price ranges per million tokens

Inference provider cash prices · Lowest 0.2625 · median 0.2625 · highest 0.2625 · 1 quotes USD / per million tokens

Relay USD credit prices · Lowest 0.49 · median 0.5635 · highest 0.6125 · 3 quotes USD / per million tokens, site credit

Official prices are the vendor's cash prices. Inference providers also list cash prices and can be compared directly. Relays list prices in site credit; what you actually pay depends on each site's top-up rate, so they cannot be compared with official prices directly.

Inference providers

Provider	Tariff	Input	Output	Cache read	Cache write	Unit	Observed	Conditions and source
OpenRouter · Aggregator	Standard	0.15	0.6	0.075	—	USD / 1M tokens	2026-10-24	Full price conditions { "sourceUnit": "USD_PER_TOKEN", "sourceAmounts": { "cacheRead": "0.000000075", "input": "0.00000015", "output": "0.0000006" }, "conditions": [], "contextTier": null, "processingMode": null, "conditionNotes": [], "effectiveFrom": null, "effectiveUntil": null } Official source

Provider

Tariff

Input

Output

Cache read

Cache write

Unit

Observed

Conditions and source

OpenRouter · Aggregator

Standard

0.15

0.6

0.075

—

USD / 1M tokens

2026-10-24

Full price conditions

{
  "sourceUnit": "USD_PER_TOKEN",
  "sourceAmounts": {
    "cacheRead": "0.000000075",
    "input": "0.00000015",
    "output": "0.0000006"
  },
  "conditions": [],
  "contextTier": null,
  "processingMode": null,
  "conditionNotes": [],
  "effectiveFrom": null,
  "effectiveUntil": null
}

Official source

Older official and inference provider prices

Earlier price observations and their original conditions

Inference providers

Provider	Tariff	Input	Output	Cache read	Cache write	Unit	Observed	Conditions and source
OpenRouter · Aggregator	Standard	0.15	0.6	0.075	—	USD / 1M tokens	2026-10-17	Full price conditions { "sourceUnit": "USD_PER_TOKEN", "sourceAmounts": { "cacheRead": "0.000000075", "input": "0.00000015", "output": "0.0000006" }, "conditions": [], "contextTier": null, "processingMode": null, "conditionNotes": [], "effectiveFrom": null, "effectiveUntil": null } Official source

Provider

Tariff

Input

Output

Cache read

Cache write

Unit

Observed

Conditions and source

OpenRouter · Aggregator

Standard

0.15

0.6

0.075

—

USD / 1M tokens

2026-10-17

Full price conditions

{
  "sourceUnit": "USD_PER_TOKEN",
  "sourceAmounts": {
    "cacheRead": "0.000000075",
    "input": "0.00000015",
    "output": "0.0000006"
  },
  "conditions": [],
  "contextTier": null,
  "processingMode": null,
  "conditionNotes": [],
  "effectiveFrom": null,
  "effectiveUntil": null
}

Official source

Unit: USD credits per 1M tokens. These are site-credit prices; actual cost depends on each site’s top-up rate.

Blended price = input × 75% + output × 25%, without cache.

Price range: lowest 0.49 · median 0.5635 · highest 0.6125 (3 quotes, USD credits per million total tokens)

sites have comparable prices72120 sites list this model; approximately 1 operators

Lowest input price0.28USD credits / 1M

Median of each provider’s lowest price0.28USD credits / 1M

Relays

Prices below are in site credit, not cash.

#	Provider	Plan / conditions	Input ↑USD credits / 1M	Output USD credits / 1M	Cache readUSD credits / 1M	BlendedUSD credits / 1M	Details
Recent price
01	api1.zhiyunai168.comAsk or discussCollected: 23 Oct 2026, 23:40 UTC Collected this cycle View 3 plans 1 more site of the same company api.zhiyunai168.com · main site Basis: identical homepage assets, identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding.	Azure Azure gpt series all models, normal concurrency t1key pool, gpt-5.5 not yet supported, gpt-image-2 not yet supported [machine translation]Original: Azure gpt系列全模型，普通并发t1key池，暂不支持gpt-5.5，暂不支持gpt-image-2 Operator pending verification	0.28	1.12	0.14	0.49Median price ÷ this price: 1.2×	Full prices and sources
02	api1.zhiyunai168.comAsk or discussCollected: 23 Oct 2026, 23:40 UTC Collected this cycle View 3 plans 1 more site of the same company api.zhiyunai168.com · main site Basis: identical homepage assets, identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding.	Azure premium [machine translation]Group on site: Azure高级 All models stably supplied, key pool, high concurrency, supports, gpt-5.6.gpt-6-astra, gpt-image-2 native 4k [machine translation]Original: 全模型稳定供应，key池，高并发，支持，gpt-5.6.gpt-6-astra，gpt-image-2原生4k Operator pending verification	0.322	1.288	0.161	0.5635Median price ÷ this price: 1×	Full prices and sources
03	api1.zhiyunai168.comAsk or discussCollected: 23 Oct 2026, 23:40 UTC Collected this cycle View 3 plans 1 more site of the same company api.zhiyunai168.com · main site Basis: identical homepage assets, identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding.	Azure premium T6 [machine translation]Group on site: Azure高级T6 Azure premium T6 account, supports high concurrency, high concurrency, supports gpt-5.6,gpt-6-astra [machine translation]Original: Azure高级T6账户，支持高并发，高并发，支持gpt-5.6,gpt-6-astra Operator pending verification	0.35	1.4	0.175	0.6125Median price ÷ this price: 0.9×	Full prices and sources

Special groups · 1 rows · not ranked

These plans are marked as test, internal, disabled, gated by top-up or membership, or have a near-zero ratio. They may not be purchasable or stable, so they are listed separately and left out of the ranking and statistics.

near-zero-ratio group: 1 rows

zen-ai.top · free · gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18 · Input 0.00015 / Output 0.0006 USD credits / 1M

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How this ranking works

All per-token prices: 93,968 prices from 854 sites (about 751 companies). 84,786 are ranked, from 838 sites (about 736 companies); 9,182 more are listed separately and not ranked. Prices collected up to 2026-10-24.

This model has 438 recorded prices; 234 can be compared directly (233 ranked, 1 listed separately). Not comparable yet: price not parsed yet 143, scope of the official doc price not confirmed 28, new price under review; showing the previous one 14, ratio looks unset 7, tiered by rules (see Tiered prices) 3, billed per request or another unit 1

3 recent · 0 stale (older than 10 days, or not updated by this refresh) · 0 unverified timestamps. Minimum and median only count recent paid prices; older prices stay in the table. 0 zero-valued pairs are separately unverified, without proof of free eligibility. Timing does not verify payment, upstream identity or quality.

Prices are converted to site credits using each site’s published ratio. What you actually pay depends on its top-up rate. Input, output and cache prices in each row come from the same plan. Several sites run by the same company take one place in the ranking: its cheapest plan, with the other sites listed under it. We judge “same company” by identical prices, status pages or homepage code; this is not a legal finding. To see every site’s prices, choose “All plans” or filter by provider.

“Self-declared unofficial channel” means the plan name itself says “reverse-engineered” or similar. We have not verified their source or quality. Minimum and median only count regular plans.

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Sources not accepted this cycle and reasons

Manufacturer documentation and lifecycle

These manufacturer statements do not verify relay backends, availability, GPU ownership or cash eligibility. Aliases are never merged automatically.

`gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18`

Manufacturer-declared status: CURRENT_PENDING_RETIREMENT
Deprecation date (separate from retirement): 2026-10-14
New-user access cutoff: Not specified
Model retirement date: 2027-01-14
Recommended migration (not an alias): gpt-6-luna
Documentation checked: 2026-10-23T20:08:15.290815+00:00

10/14 是公告日；本行停服日不是 10/23。

Complete declarations and historical observations

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  "author": "OpenAI",
  "availability": "CURRENT_PENDING_RETIREMENT",
  "availabilityScope": "OpenAI official API",
  "backendTested": false,
  "deprecationAnnouncedOn": "2026-10-14",
  "documentationReadAt": "2026-10-23T20:08:15.290815+00:00",
  "documentedAliases": [],
  "endpointDisposition": "FUTURE_SHUTDOWN_ANNOUNCED",
  "evidenceKeys": [
    "openai-deprecations"
  ],
  "newUserAccessDateStatus": "NOT_ESTABLISHED_BY_REVIEWED_DOCUMENTATION",
  "newUserAccessStopsOn": null,
  "note": "10/14 是公告日；本行停服日不是 10/23。",
  "officialId": "gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18",
  "qualificationEffect": "DOCUMENTATION_ONLY_NO_AUTOMATIC_PRICE_OR_RANKING_CHANGE",
  "recommendedReplacements": [
    "gpt-6-luna"
  ],
  "retirementDate": "2027-01-14",
  "sourceUrls": [
    "https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations"
  ],
  "verifiedOn": "2026-10-23"
}

Manufacturer documentation evidence · availability:openai-deprecations · 2026-10-23T20:08:15.290815+00:00

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FAQ

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api1.zhiyunai168.com, group "Azure", 0.49 USD credit per million total tokens, observed 2026-10-23. 72 sites have comparable prices.

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