Model
GPT-5.4 Mini API pricing
Compare the published GPT-5.4 Mini API list rate with corouter's outlet rate, review context and modalities, and estimate a monthly token bill.
Where this model fits
- Long-context passes where the per-token rate dominates the bill
- Background jobs and batch cleanup that run unattended
- Draft-then-refine pipelines that hand off to a larger model
Estimates only. Actual billing depends on your real token counts, cache hit rate, and the prices in effect at request time.
From the blog
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