
GPT-4o mini
OpenAI's budget API workhorse pairs 128K context with $0.15/$0.60 per million token pricing, solid coding benchmarks, and the broadest third-party ecosystem of any small model.
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OpenAI's budget API workhorse pairs 128K context with $0.15/$0.60 per million token pricing, solid coding benchmarks, and the broadest third-party ecosystem of any small model.

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