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Interesting. It didn't seem like gpt-4o-mini was priced the same as gpt-4o during our testing. We're relying on OpenAI usage page of course, which doesn't give as much request by request pricing. But we didn't see any huge usage spike after testing all weekend.

For our testing we ran a 1000 page document set, all treated as images. We got to about 25M input / 0.4M output tokens for 1000 pages. Which would be a pretty noticeable difference based on the listed token prices.

gpt-4o-mini => (24M/1M * $0.15) + (0.4M/1M * 0.60) = $4.10

gpt-4o => (24M/1M * $5.00) + (0.4M/1M * 15.00) = $126.00



The pricing is strange because the same images will use up 30X more tokens with mini. They even show this in the pricing calculator.

[1] https://openai.com/api/pricing/


Indeed it does. But also the price for output tokens of the OCR is cheaper. So in total it's still much cheaper with gpt-4o-mini.




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