Sunset 162 days ago, Feb 13, 2026. Retiring from ChatGPT on February 13, 2026. API access remains available.
OpenAI o4-mini's competitors have been quietly putting in work.
Sunset 162 days ago, Feb 13, 2026. Retiring from ChatGPT on February 13, 2026. API access remains available.
OpenAI o4-mini's competitors have been quietly putting in work.
A smaller, cost-efficient reasoning model from OpenAI optimized for speed. Achieves remarkable performance for its size, particularly in math, coding, and visual tasks. Supports significantly higher usage limits than o3 and can agentically use tools.
fromimport openai OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
"https://openrouter.ai/api/v1" base_url=,
"$OPENROUTER_API_KEY" api_key=,
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
"openai/o4-mini" model=,
"role""user""content""Hello!" messages=[{: , : }],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Set OPENROUTER_API_KEY with your OpenRouter API key from openrouter.ai/keys.
Also on Azure AI Foundry
The pragmatic senior dev who writes clean code and clear prose. Shows up, ships, and doesn't waste your time with existential tangents.
Best comedy of the "o" family, actually sounds like a comedian, not a linguistics paper. Tailwind clones are polished. The model you'd actually want on your team.
Taste is judged on an uncapped scale, originality first. The space past 100 is craft today's models rarely reach.
Unique words vs. total words. Higher = richer vocabulary.
Average words per sentence.
"Might", "perhaps", "arguably" per 100 words.
**Bold** markers per 1,000 characters.
Bullet and numbered list items per 1,000 characters.
Markdown headings per 1,000 characters.
Emoji per 1,000 characters.
"However", "moreover", "furthermore" per 100 words.
54 outputs · $0.20 tracked across 18 receipts
A smaller, cost-efficient reasoning model from OpenAI optimized for speed. Achieves remarkable performance for its size, particularly in math, coding, and visual tasks. Supports significantly higher usage limits than o3 and can agentically use tools.
fromimport openai OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
"https://openrouter.ai/api/v1" base_url=,
"$OPENROUTER_API_KEY" api_key=,
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
"openai/o4-mini" model=,
"role""user""content""Hello!" messages=[{: , : }],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Set OPENROUTER_API_KEY with your OpenRouter API key from openrouter.ai/keys.
Also on Azure AI Foundry
The pragmatic senior dev who writes clean code and clear prose. Shows up, ships, and doesn't waste your time with existential tangents.
Best comedy of the "o" family, actually sounds like a comedian, not a linguistics paper. Tailwind clones are polished. The model you'd actually want on your team.
Taste is judged on an uncapped scale, originality first. The space past 100 is craft today's models rarely reach.
Unique words vs. total words. Higher = richer vocabulary.
Average words per sentence.
"Might", "perhaps", "arguably" per 100 words.
**Bold** markers per 1,000 characters.
Bullet and numbered list items per 1,000 characters.
Markdown headings per 1,000 characters.
Emoji per 1,000 characters.
"However", "moreover", "furthermore" per 100 words.
54 outputs · $0.20 tracked across 18 receipts