Codex Mini is OpenAI's language model with a 200K context window and up to 100K output tokens, available from 2 providers, starting at $1.50 / 1M input and $6.00 / 1M output. A fine-tuned variant of o4-mini optimized for use in Codex CLI, balancing coding capability with low latency for developer tooling.
Specifications
Canonical IDopenai-codex-mini
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorOpenAIOpenAI
Providers
Context Window200K tokens
Max Output100K tokens
Input ModalitiesImagePdfText
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Knowledge Cutoff

Capabilities

Input3/5
Text
Image
Audio·
Video·
PDF
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities6/13
Reasoning
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling
Parallel Function Calling
Structured Outputs
Native JSON Schema
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
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Azure AI Foundry
azure/codex-mini
$1.50$6.00$0.375
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OpenAI
codex-mini-latest
$1.50$6.00$0.375

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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Codex 5.1 MiniAvailable
Codex Mini200K$1.50$6.00Current

Other models

ModelTierReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1M
Codex 5.1
Codex 5.1 Max
Codex 5.2
Codex 5.3

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