The cheapos ClubOpenAI: o3 Mini
openai/o3-mini
PaidTool callingReasoning
Price Published
- Input
- $1.10 per million tokens
- Output
- $4.40 per million tokens
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Specifications Published
- Context window
- 200,000 tokens
- Max output
- 100,000 tokens
- Tool calling
- Supported
- Vision input
- Not listed
- Reasoning
- Supported
- Knowledge cutoff
- Oct 31, 2023
- Listed since
- Jan 31, 2025
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About this model OpenRouter description
OpenAI o3-mini is a cost-efficient language model optimized for STEM reasoning tasks, particularly excelling in science, mathematics, and coding. This model supports the `reasoning_effort` parameter, which can be set to...
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