API PRICES
OpenAI · o4-mini
Provider prices, cheapest first
Price comparison
- Official (cash)
- Input 1.1 / output 4.4 USD/million tokensOpenAI ·
- Lowest inference provider (cash)
- Input 1.1 / output 4.4 USD/million tokensOpenRouter · Aggregator · same as official ·
- Lowest relay (credit)
- 0.9625 USD credit/million total tokensllm.kagu.one "大杂烩" ·
Official and inference-provider prices are cash; relay prices are site credit (USD credit or CNY credit), a different unit, compared separately. Relay prices are per million total tokens at 75% input and 25% output.
OpenAI · o4-mini official price: input 1.1, output 4.4 USD per million tokens (OpenAI, observed 2026-10-17). Cheapest inference provider: OpenRouter, input 1.1, output 4.4 USD per million tokens. Cheapest relay: llm.kagu.one, group "Hodgepodge [machine translation] (on site: 大杂烩)" 0.9625 USD_CREDIT per million total tokens (credit price, not cash, observed 2026-10-16). 74 sites have comparable prices; 134 sites list this model.Relay blended price uses 75% input and 25% output.
Price ranges per million tokens
Official cash prices · Lowest 1.925 · median 1.925 · highest 1.925 · 1 quotes USD / per million tokens
Inference provider cash prices · Lowest 1.925 · median 1.925 · highest 1.925 · 1 quotes USD / per million tokens
Relay USD credit prices · Lowest 0.9625 · median 2.8875 · highest 19.25 · 195 quotes USD / per million tokens, site credit
Relay CNY credit prices · Lowest 0.77 · median 3.2148 · highest 21.619 · 26 quotes CNY / per million tokens, site credit
Official price
| Provider | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Unit | Observed | Conditions and source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | 1.1 | 4.4 | 0.275 | — | USD / 1M tokens | Official source |
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 | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Unit | Observed | Conditions and source | vs official |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter · Aggregator | 1.1 | 4.4 | 0.275 | — | USD / 1M tokens | Official source | Input 0% · Output 0% |
Unit: USD credits per 1M tokens. These are site-credit prices; actual cost depends on each site’s top-up rate.
Price range: lowest 0.9625 · median 2.8875 · highest 19.25 (195 quotes, USD credits per million total tokens)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| 05 | api.openai-ch.topAsk or discussCollected: Carried previous price Not updated this time; showing the previous price View 5 plans | default Default group [machine translation]Original: 默认分组 Operator pending verification | 1.1 | 4.4 | 0.28 | 1.925Median price ÷ this price: 1.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 05 | kg-api.cloudAsk or discussCollected: Carried previous price Not updated this time; showing the previous price View 6 plans | default Default group [machine translation]Original: 默认分组 Operator pending verification | 1.1 | 4.4 | — | 1.925Median price ÷ this price: 1.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 05 | kg-api.cloudAsk or discussCollected: Carried previous price Not updated this time; showing the previous price View 6 plans | svip Pure Azure [machine translation]Original: 纯Azure Operator pending verification | 1.1 | 4.4 | — | 1.925Median price ÷ this price: 1.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 05 | newapi.prorisehub.comAsk or discussCollected: Carried previous price Not updated this time; showing the previous price View 5 plans | default ⚠️ Default general group: can call every model on the site, don't use it if you don't understand!!! Billing is very expensive!!! [machine translation]Original: ⚠️ 默认通用分组:可调用全站所有模型,不懂别用!!!计费很贵!!! Operator pending verification | 1.1 | 4.4 | 0.275 | 1.925Median price ÷ this price: 1.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 10 | newapi.prorisehub.comAsk or discussCollected: Carried previous price Not updated this time; showing the previous price View 5 plans | GPT-official-Key-full price-pure-blood (all official) [machine translation]Group on site: GPT-官-Key-正价-纯血 [Stability ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐] gpt official key full price, what's inside is OpenAI's key [machine translation]Original: 【稳定性⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐】gpt 官 key 正价,里面放着的就是 OpenAI 的 key Operator pending verification | 1.32 | 5.28 | 0.33 | 2.31Median price ÷ this price: 1.3× | Full prices and sources |
| 10 | newapi.prorisehub.comAsk or discussCollected: Carried previous price Not updated this time; showing the previous price View 5 plans | OpenRouter-official relay [machine translation]Group on site: OpenRouter-官转 [Stability ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐] openrouter official relay group, official not-dumbed-down full-strength experience [machine translation]Original: 【稳定性⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐】openrouter官方中转分组,官方不降智满血级体验 Operator pending verification | 1.32 | 5.28 | 0.33 | 2.31Median price ÷ this price: 1.3× | Full prices and sources |
| 12 | newapi.prorisehub.comAsk or discussCollected: Carried previous price Not updated this time; showing the previous price View 5 plans | Azure-Gpt [Stability ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐] Azure full-price group, official, not dumbed down, full-strength experience [machine translation]Original: 【稳定性⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐】Azure 正价分组,官方不降智满血级体验 Operator pending verification | 1.43 | 5.72 | 0.3575 | 2.5025Median price ÷ this price: 1.2× | Full prices and sources |
| 13 | kg-api.cloudAsk or discussCollected: Carried previous price Not updated this time; showing the previous price View 6 plans | AZ-premium quality [machine translation]Group on site: AZ-优质 Pure Azure-premium quality, supports o1, o3 [machine translation]Original: 纯Azure-优质,支持o1、o3 Operator pending verification | 1.65 | 6.6 | — | 2.8875Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 14 | zzshu.ccAsk or discussCollected: Carried previous price Not updated this time; showing the previous price View 2 plans | Azure-GPT Azure-GPT no distillation [machine translation]Original: Azure-GPT不可蒸馏 Operator pending verification | 2.2 | 2.2 | — | 2.2Median price ÷ this price: 1.3× | Full prices and sources |
| 15 | zzshu.ccAsk or discussCollected: Carried previous price Not updated this time; showing the previous price View 2 plans | Azure-GPT distillation allowed [machine translation]Group on site: Azure-GPT可蒸馏 Azure-GPT distillation allowed [machine translation]Original: Azure-GPT可蒸馏 Operator pending verification | 2.86 | 2.86 | — | 2.86Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 16 | kg-api.cloudAsk or discussCollected: Carried previous price Not updated this time; showing the previous price View 6 plans | ssvip Pure OpenAI, special-price group [machine translation]Original: 纯OpenAI,特价分组 Operator pending verification | 3.3 | 13.2 | — | 5.775Median price ÷ this price: 0.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 17 | kg-api.cloudAsk or discussCollected: Carried previous price Not updated this time; showing the previous price View 6 plans | openai official-premium quality [machine translation]Group on site: openai官-优质 Pure OpenAI, special-price premium-quality group [machine translation]Original: 纯OpenAI,特价优质分组 Operator pending verification | 4.4 | 17.6 | — | 7.7Median price ÷ this price: 0.4× | Full prices and sources |
| 18 | kg-api.cloudAsk or discussCollected: Carried previous price Not updated this time; showing the previous price View 6 plans | origin Enterprise group (origin)-OpenAI&Claude official price [machine translation]Original: 企业分组(origin)-OpenAI&Claude官方原价 Operator pending verification | 8.03 | 32.12 | — | 14.053Median price ÷ this price: 0.2× | Full prices and sources |
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| — | llm.kagu.oneAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 2 plans | Hodgepodge [machine translation]Group on site: 大杂烩 Name on site: openai/o4-mini Note: number precision issue. This price is not ranked or counted. Operator pending verification | 0.55 | 2.2 | 0.14 | 0.9625Median price ÷ this price: 3× | 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 · o4-mini · Input 0.0011 / Output 0.0044 USD credits / 1M
How this ranking works
All per-token prices: 97,455 prices from 871 sites (about 765 companies). 89,631 are ranked, from 861 sites (about 755 companies); 7,824 more are listed separately and not ranked. Prices collected up to 2026-10-17.
This model has 507 recorded prices; 242 can be compared directly (241 ranked, 1 listed separately). Not comparable yet: price not parsed yet 175, ratio looks unset 34, scope of the official doc price not confirmed 24, display unit not confirmed 19, tiered by rules (see Tiered prices) 5, billed per request or another unit 2
196 recent · 18 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.
Sources not accepted this cycle and reasons
FAQ
Which API is cheapest for OpenAI · o4-mini?
llm.kagu.one, group "大杂烩 (Hodgepodge)", 0.9625 USD credit per million total tokens, observed 2026-10-16. 74 sites have comparable prices.
What is the official price for OpenAI · o4-mini?
Input 1.1, output 4.4 USD per million tokens, checked 2026-10-17. Lowest inference provider: OpenRouter, input 1.1, output 4.4 USD per million tokens. Input 0% higher than official.
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