# OpenAI o4-mini Review & Benchmarks (2026): Price, Context, Specs | Alher Tech

> OpenAI o4-mini by OpenAI: benchmarks, pricing, context window, strengths and use cases. Data from official benchmark sources.

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Last updated: April 22, 2026

## Specs

- **Vendor**: OpenAI
- **Released**: February 12, 2026
- **Context window**: 200K tokens
- **Input**: $1.1 / M tokens
- **Output**: $4.4 / M tokens

## Benchmarks

- **mmlu**: 85.4
- **gpqa**: 74.2
- **humanEval**: 88.6
- **arenaElo**: 1362
- **sweBench**: 60
- **sweBenchPro**: 50
- **liveCodeBench**: 78
- **aiderPolyglot**: 72
- **terminalBench**: 40
- **mmluPro**: 80
- **hle**: 18
- **aime**: 92
- **math500**: 96
- **mmmu**: 74

## Strengths

- Reasoning quality close to o3 at a fraction of the price
- Great on math, coding and analytical tasks
- Fast enough for interactive agent loops

## Weaknesses

- Still slower than GPT-5 mini per request
- Smaller multimodal breadth than GPT-5 family
- Thinking tokens can surprise you on cost

## Best for

- Cost-sensitive reasoning agents
- Classroom + tutoring math assistants
- Code review at scale

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