Overview
GPT-4o Mini represents OpenAI’s effort to provide a cheaper, more lightweight version of GPT-4. It offers a compelling balance of performance and cost, making it particularly suitable for production deployments where both quality and economics matter.
Key Specifications
- Context Window: 128,000 tokens
- Output Limit: 16,384 tokens
- Training Cutoff: October 2023
- Pricing:
- Input: $0.15 per million tokens
- Output: $0.60 per million tokens
Performance Highlights
- Cost Efficiency: Significantly cheaper than GPT-4 while maintaining strong performance
- Legal Tasks: Shows strong performance on legal reasoning tasks
- Consistency: Reliable performance across various benchmark categories
Benchmark Results
The model demonstrates competitive performance across our benchmarks:
- group performance ranking results:
Use Case Recommendations
Best suited for:
- High-volume production deployments
- Cost-sensitive applications
- Tasks requiring balance of performance and efficiency
- Legal document analysis at scale
Limitations
- Lower performance ceiling compared to GPT-4o
- May struggle with highly complex legal and financial tasks
Comparison with Other Models
- More capable than GPT-3.5 Turbo
- More cost-effective than GPT-4
- Competitive with Claude 3.5 Haiku in terms of performance/cost ratio