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
StatusDeprecated
CreatorOpenAIOpenAI
Providers
Context Window200K tokens
Max Output100K tokens
Input ModalitiesImagePDFText
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Knowledge Cutoff · 2 years ago
Deprecation Date

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

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
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Azure AI Foundry
openai:codexmini
$1.50$6.00$0.375
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OpenAI
codex-mini-latest
$1.50$6.00$0.375

Cost Calculator

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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Codex 5.1 Mini————Available
Codex Mini—200K$1.50$6.00Current

Other Models

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

Model IDs

azure_ai/codex-mini
azure/codex-mini
azure/eu/codex-mini
azure/us/codex-mini
codex-mini-latest
openai-codex-mini