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OpenAI GPT-4o mini: Ultra-Cheap Fast Small Model Reshaping Cost-Per-Token Economics for Production Apps
Community description: If you've been watching the LLM pricing wars closely, you already know the landscape shifted...
Dev.to | Sep 14, 2026 | Anshul Rajpal
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Running that math, you're looking at roughly $9 million with GPT-4o versus about $285,000 with GPT-4o mini. GPT-4o mini is the model that makes you rethink your cost architecture. If you're not testing GPT-4o mini in your pipeline yet, you're probably overpaying.
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