o3 Mini High
About this model
o3 Mini High is an AI model from OpenAI, made available through the API on February 12, 2025. It can read up to 200,000 tokens in one request, roughly 375 pages of text, and write up to 100,000 tokens in a single answer. Besides text, it accepts files such as PDFs as input.
Through the API it costs $1.10 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens. Its pricing sits in the middle of the market.
It supports extended reasoning: it can "think" step by step before answering, which helps on maths, code and complex questions. It can call tools and functions, so developers can connect it to search, databases or other software.
Quality scores
Rankings →Not rated yet. Independent test results usually appear a few weeks after a model is released.
Where to use it
Companies that serve this model through an API: 1. Prices per million tokens, cheapest first.
Availability and prices come from OpenRouter’s public API and are refreshed daily. Uptime is the share of successful requests over the last 24 hours. Some providers run a compressed version of open models (fp8, int4), which is cheaper but can be slightly less accurate.
Use it in your code
Call o3 Mini High through OpenRouter’s OpenAI-compatible API: create a key on openrouter.ai, then run one of these examples.
curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model": "openai/o3-mini-high", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello! What can you do?"}]}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["OPENROUTER_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="openai/o3-mini-high",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello! What can you do?"}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({ baseURL: "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1", apiKey: process.env.OPENROUTER_API_KEY });
const reply = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "openai/o3-mini-high",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello! What can you do?" }],
});
console.log(reply.choices[0].message.content);The same code works with every model on this site: only the model ID changes. Many labs also offer their own API and SDK.
What it costs in practice
- 1,000 chat replies$1.87
- Summarise a 100-page document$0.059
- An app with 10,000 requests a day for a month$858
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- How much does o3 Mini High cost?
- o3 Mini High costs $1.10 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens through the API. For example, 1,000 chat replies of about 500 tokens in and 300 out cost around $1.87.
- What is the context window of o3 Mini High?
- o3 Mini High can read up to 200,000 tokens in one request, about 375 pages of text. It can write up to 100,000 tokens in a single answer.
- Is o3 Mini High open source?
- No. o3 Mini High is a closed model: its weights are not published, so you use it through OpenAI’s own apps and API, or through cloud providers.
- Who makes o3 Mini High?
- o3 Mini High is made by OpenAI. It became available through the API on February 12, 2025.
- Can o3 Mini High read images?
- Yes. Besides text, it accepts files such as PDFs as input.
- What are the alternatives to o3 Mini High?
- Models with a similar price from other companies include Qwen3.6 Max Preview, GLM 5V Turbo and Inkling. You can compare them side by side on this page.