o3 Mini High pricing and routing profile
o3 Mini High from OpenAI lists at $1.10 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens, with a 200,000-token context window. Prices from OpenRouter's catalogue on 2026-09-28.
Tool callingStructured outputReasoning control
Cost per 1,000 requests
| Request shape | List cost |
|---|---|
| Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out) | $0.704 |
| Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out) | $3.96 |
| Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out) | $11.00 |
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Can Gimbix route to it first?
Not as a first-answer model through OpenRouter: no host returns token log probabilities for o3 Mini High. It can still be the model Gimbix falls back to when a cheaper model is unsure.
Cheaper models that can answer first
Models priced below o3 Mini High that expose a confidence signal. Whether they answer your traffic as well is what a Gimbix pilot measures.
| Model | Input / output per 1M | Cheaper on a chat reply |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3 Max Thinking | $0.78 / $3.90 | 21% |
| Qwen3 Max | $0.78 / $3.90 | 21% |
| Grok Build 0.1 | $1.00 / $2.00 | 29% |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 | $0.955 / $1.91 | 32% |
| Kimi K2.6 | $0.65 / $3.41 | 33% |
| Kimi K2.7 Code | $0.656 / $3.30 | 34% |
Questions
How much does o3 Mini High cost?
o3 Mini High lists at $1.10 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens on OpenRouter as of 2026-09-28. A typical chat reply of 2,000 input and 400 output tokens costs about $3.96 per 1,000 requests.
What is the context window of o3 Mini High?
200,000 tokens.
Can a cheaper model replace o3 Mini High?
Sometimes. Gimbix proves it on your own traffic before routing: the cheaper model must match o3 Mini High on one half of your requests and make at most three answers worse on the other.