OpenAI o4-mini
OpenAI o4-mini
Version: 2025-04-16
OpenAILast updated April 2025
o4-mini includes significant improvements on quality and safety while supporting the existing features of o3-mini and delivering comparable or better performance.
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Multilingual
Multimodal
o4-mini includes significant improvements on quality and safety while supporting the existing features of o3-mini and delivering comparable or better performance through its integration and support of the newest APIs and reasoning features.

Key Capabilities

  • Multiple APIs support: o4-mini is available in Responses API and Chat Completions API with Responses API supporting seamless integration with multiple tools and enhanced transparency with the reasoning summary as part of the model output.
  • Reasoning summary: In the Responses API, o4-mini now supports reasoning summary in its output providing more insights into its thinking process. This enhances the explainability and the effectiveness of the resulting actions and tools that leverage the insights for even better outcomes.
  • Multimodality: With the addition of vision input capabilities, o4-mini expands its reasoning capability to process and analyze visual data, extracting valuable insights and generating comprehensive text outputs. This is supported in both Responses API and Chat Completions API.
  • Full tools support includes parallel tools calling: o4-mini is the first efficient reasoning model with full tools support similar to the mainline models including parallel tool calling. Use o4-mini for the next generation of agentic solutions. This capability is supported in both Responses API and Chat Completions API.

Model Variants

  • o4-mini: The most efficient reasoning model in the o model series, well suited for agentic solutions. Now generally available.
  • o3: The most capable reasoning model in the o model series, and the first one to offer full tools support for agentic solutions. Now generally available.
  • o3-mini: A faster and more cost-efficient option in the o3 series, ideal for coding tasks requiring speed and lower resource consumption.
  • o1: The most capable model in the o1 series, offering enhanced reasoning abilities. Now generally available.
  • o1-mini: A faster and more cost-efficient option in the o1 series, ideal for coding tasks requiring speed and lower resource consumption.

Model provider

This model is provided through the Azure OpenAI Service.

Relevant documents

The following documents are applicable:

Safety

OpenAI has incorporated additional safety measures into the o1 models, including new techniques to help the models refuse unsafe requests. These advancements make the o1 series some of the most robust models available. OpenAI measures safety is by testing how well models continue to follow its safety rules if a user tries to bypass them (known as "jailbreaking"). In OpenAI’s internal tests, GPT-4o scored 22 (on a scale of 0-100) while o1-preview model scored 84. You can read more about this in the OpenAI’s system card and research post .
Model Specifications
Context Length200000
Quality Index0.89
LicenseCustom
Training DataMay 2024
Last UpdatedApril 2025
Input TypeText,Image
Output TypeText
PublisherOpenAI
Languages1 Language