How much does o4 Mini High cost?

Billing is usage-based: $1.1 per million input tokens and $4.4 per million output tokens. There is no fixed monthly fee. You pay only for what you use, and current rates are shown in the Hormouz dashboard.

How do I access o4 Mini High from inside Iran?

Create an account on Hormouz and generate an API key. Hormouz provides a stable path to o4 Mini High from inside Iran, with no foreign credit card or circumvention tooling required.

Is o4 Mini High compatible with OpenAI code?

Yes. Hormouz exposes an OpenAI-compatible API. Just change the base URL to Hormouz and swap in your Hormouz key. Your existing SDKs and chat-completions code run without a rewrite.

What context window and capabilities does o4 Mini High have?

o4 Mini High supports a context window of up to 200K tokens. It also supports tool calling, image (vision) input and step-by-step reasoning. That makes it a good fit for the hardest reasoning, visual problem solving and code editing where deeper thinking is worth extra latency.

What is o4 Mini High good for?

o4 Mini High works well for the hardest reasoning, visual problem solving and code editing where deeper thinking is worth extra latency.

What is o4 Mini High's knowledge cutoff?

o4 Mini High's training data runs through Jun 2024. For information newer than that, provide the relevant context in your prompt or connect a tool that fetches live data.

OpenAI: o4 Mini High: AI model

o4 Mini High is an OpenAI model. O4 Mini with reasoning effort set to high for harder problems, with up to 200K-token context. Reachable from inside Iran through Hormouz.

Context window:: 200,000 tokens
Input:: $1.1/1M tokens
Output:: $4.4/1M tokens
Type:: text, image

Vision
Tools
Streaming
Long context

Thinking levels: Always thinks · high

o4 Mini High is o4 Mini with reasoning effort set to high for harder problems. o4 Mini High is the same model as o4 Mini with reasoning_effort defaulted to high. It keeps o4-mini's compact, cost-efficient design and strong multimodal, agentic and tool-use skills, while spending more time thinking on the hardest problems. It supports a context window of up to 200K tokens, with training data through Jun 2024.

o4 Mini High is served through Hormouz behind an OpenAI-compatible API. It supports tool calling, image (vision) input and step-by-step reasoning. Point your base URL at Hormouz and drop in a Hormouz key, and existing OpenAI SDK code runs unchanged.

Pricing is usage-based: $1.1 per million input tokens and $4.4 per million output tokens. Hormouz provides stable access to the model from inside Iran, with no foreign credit card or circumvention tooling required.

OpenAI o4-mini-high is the same model as o4-mini with reasoning_effort set to high. OpenAI o4-mini is a compact reasoning model in the o-series, optimized for fast, cost-efficient performance while retaining...

Quickstart

curl https://api.hormouz.net/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ng-YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "openai/o4-mini-high",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

Specs

Vendor	OpenAI
Type	Text, Image
Context window	200,000 tokens
Pricing	$1.10/M in · $4.40/M out
API	Chat Completions
Capabilities	Streaming · Vision · Tools

Code example

cURL

curl https://api.hormouz.net/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ng-YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "openai/o4-mini-high",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

Python

from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(api_key="ng-YOUR_API_KEY", base_url="https://api.hormouz.net/v1")
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="openai/o4-mini-high",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

JavaScript

import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({ apiKey: "ng-YOUR_API_KEY", baseURL: "https://api.hormouz.net/v1" });
const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "openai/o4-mini-high",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" }],
});
console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);

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FAQ

How much does o4 Mini High cost?: Billing is usage-based: $1.1 per million input tokens and $4.4 per million output tokens. There is no fixed monthly fee. You pay only for what you use, and current rates are shown in the Hormouz dashboard.
How do I access o4 Mini High from inside Iran?: Create an account on Hormouz and generate an API key. Hormouz provides a stable path to o4 Mini High from inside Iran, with no foreign credit card or circumvention tooling required.
Is o4 Mini High compatible with OpenAI code?: Yes. Hormouz exposes an OpenAI-compatible API. Just change the base URL to Hormouz and swap in your Hormouz key. Your existing SDKs and chat-completions code run without a rewrite.
What context window and capabilities does o4 Mini High have?: o4 Mini High supports a context window of up to 200K tokens. It also supports tool calling, image (vision) input and step-by-step reasoning. That makes it a good fit for the hardest reasoning, visual problem solving and code editing where deeper thinking is worth extra latency.
What is o4 Mini High good for?: o4 Mini High works well for the hardest reasoning, visual problem solving and code editing where deeper thinking is worth extra latency.
What is o4 Mini High's knowledge cutoff?: o4 Mini High's training data runs through Jun 2024. For information newer than that, provide the relevant context in your prompt or connect a tool that fetches live data.

Updated 2026-10-13