o4-mini

o4-mini

Run o4-mini in a hosted Python Task with web search and file inputs.

Fast, cost-efficient reasoning model optimized for high-volume STEM tasks. Best-performing benchmarked model on AIME 2024 and 2025. Supports higher usage limits than o3 for throughput-sensitive workloads.

Upcoming retirement

This model retires on October 23, 2026. Plan a move to a newer model before then.

What o4-mini supports in qbash

Web searchSearches the web while it answers.
Reasoning effort3 levels, from low to high.
Image inputReads WEBP, PNG, JPEG and GIF images.
Document inputReads PDF, TEXT, DOC, XLS, RTF and 7 more files.
Prompt cachingRepeated input is billed at the cached rate.

What is qbash?

qbash is where you build Tasks: Python programs that run a business process on managed infrastructure. Your code runs the steps and calls a model like o4-mini only at the ones that need judgment, with integrations, memory and files available in the same script.

A developer writes the Task once, and anyone on the team runs it from a form, on a schedule, from a webhook or from chat. Each Task is versioned and every run is logged.

How Tasks work

Specifications

Context window: 200Ktokens
Max output: 100,000tokens

Use o4-mini in a Python Task

qbash.ai.raw calls o4-mini from a Task and returns its reply as a string.

main.py
notes = qbash.inputs.get("notes")

summary = qbash.ai.raw(
    f"Summarize these meeting notes in five bullets:\n\n{notes}",
    model="o4-mini",
    system="You are a concise analyst.",
)

qbash.output({"summary": summary})

Model calls in Tasks

Use o4-mini with web search

Turn on Web Search in an inline prompt's model bar and o4-mini searches the web while it answers. Searches are billed at $10.00 per 1,000.

Provider web tools

Reasoning effort with o4-mini

Set Effort to low, medium and high in the prompt's Settings. The default is medium. Higher effort spends more tokens on reasoning before the reply.

o4-mini pricing

Input	$1.10 per 1M tokens
Output	$4.40 per 1M tokens
Cached input	$0.275 per 1M tokens
Web search	$10.00 per 1K searches

Standard rates in USD.

Supported file formats

Images

WEBP up to 20 MB
PNG up to 20 MB
JPEG up to 20 MB
GIF up to 20 MB

Documents

PDF
TEXT
DOC
XLS
RTF
DOCX
XLSX
PPTX
PPT
ODT
ODP
ODS