o4-mini-deep-research

reasoningdeprecatedproprietary

Status: Shut down · Succeeded by gpt-5.6-sol

Intelligence
Reasoning
Speed
Context
200K
Max output
100K
Input price
$2/1M tokens
Output price
$8/1M tokens
Snapshots

Capabilities

Reasoning & Interaction
Reasoning
Infrastructure
Streaming
Batch Processing

Details

Provider OpenAI
Creator openai
Familyo4
Licenseproprietary
Statusdeprecated
Typereasoning
Input modalitiestext, image
Output modalitiestext
Open weightNo
Parameters—
Architecture—
Context window200K tokens
Max input—
Max output100K tokens
Reasoning tokensYes
Knowledge cutoff
Release date
Deprecation date
Retirement date
Successorgpt-5.6-sol
Sourceofficial

Tools

Web Searchweb_search
Search the web for information
Code Interpretercode_interpreter
Execute code in a sandbox
MCPmcp
Connect to Model Context Protocol servers

Endpoints

ResponsesPOST
Stateful multi-turn conversationshttps://api.openai.com/v1/responses
BatchPOST
Async batch processing at lower costhttps://api.openai.com/v1/batches

Pricing

Text tokensPer 1M tokens
InputCached inputOutput
Standard$2$0.5$8

Family Comparison: o4

ModelContextMax outPricing
o4-mini200K100K$1.1$4.4
o4-mini-deep-research200K100K$2$8

API

GET/v1/models/openai/o4-mini-deep-research

o4-mini-deep-research

deprecated

Status: Shut down

o4-mini-deep-research-2025-06-26
Changes · 11 entries
o4-mini-deep-researchupdateca7a400Nov 2, 2026, 03:02 AM
descriptiono4-mini-deep-research is our faster, more affordable deep→Status: Shut down
statusactive→deprecated
model_typechat→reasoning
pricingtiers[{"label":"Text tokens","unit":"Per 1M tokens","columns":...→[{"label":"Text tokens","unit":"Per 1M tokens","columns":...
page_urlhttps://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/o4-mini-dee...→https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/o4-mini-dee...
deprecation_date2026-04-22
retirement_date2026-07-23
successorgpt-5.6-sol
o4-mini-deep-researchupdateb2f45bfOct 29, 2026, 03:29 AM
descriptiono4-mini-deep-research is our faster, more affordable deep...→Status: Shut down
o4-mini-deep-researchupdate118451aSep 24, 2026, 07:08 AM
descriptiono4-mini-deep-research is our faster, more affordable deep→o4-mini-deep-research is our faster, more affordable deep...
pricingtiers[{"label":"Text tokens","unit":"Per 1M tokens","columns":...→[{"label":"Text tokens","unit":"Per 1M tokens","columns":...
deprecation_date2026-04-22
retirement_date2026-07-23
successorgpt-5.6-sol
o4-mini-deep-researchupdatee3d7dedAug 31, 2026, 04:13 AM
statusactive→deprecated
model_typechat→reasoning
page_urlhttps://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/o4-mini-dee...→https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/o4-mini-dee...
o4-mini-deep-researchupdatee8ec634Mar 24, 2026, 07:27 PM
knowledge_cutoff2024-05→2024-06
o4-mini-deep-researchupdatef43e286Mar 24, 2026, 04:45 AM
capabilitiestool callnostructured outputnojson modenofine tuningnobatchyes
o4-mini-deep-researchupdate1cd659eMar 24, 2026, 04:19 AM
knowledge_cutoff2024-06→2024-05
page_urlhttps://platform.openai.com/docs/models/o4-mini-deep-rese...→https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/o4-mini-dee...
o4-mini-deep-researchupdateb301ebeMar 23, 2026, 11:47 PM
knowledge_cutoff2024-05→2024-06
o4-mini-deep-researchupdate2b100acMar 23, 2026, 05:30 AM
model_typereasoning→chat
licenseproprietary
page_urlhttps://platform.openai.com/docs/models/o4-mini-deep-rese...
open_weightno
release_date2025-06-26
o4-mini-deep-researchupdateb50649fMar 21, 2026, 11:58 PM
pricingtiers[{"label":"Text tokens","unit":"Per 1M tokens","columns":...
descriptiono4-mini-deep-research is OpenAI's faster, more affordable...→o4-mini-deep-research is our faster, more affordable deep
capabilitiestool callyesstructured outputyesstreamingyesvisionyes
knowledge_cutoff2024-05
model_typereasoning
reasoning_tokensyes
reasoning4
taglineFaster, more affordable deep research model
tools["web_search","code_interpreter","mcp"]
endpoints["responses","batch"]
o4-mini-deep-researchcreate7f5c66fMar 21, 2026, 05:16 AM