How much does O3 Mini cost?

O3 Mini is billed pay-as-you-go at $3.75 per 1M input tokens and $15.06 per 1M output tokens. There is no subscription — you only pay for what you use.

Is O3 Mini free to use?

O3 Mini is a paid, pay-as-you-go model — no subscription, you are only charged for usage.

How do I use O3 Mini via the API?

O3 Mini is OpenAI-compatible. Point any OpenAI SDK at https://api.airforce/v1 and pass the model ID o3-mini with your Api.Airforce API key.

O3 Mini is OpenAI's chat model, served through the unified Api.Airforce gateway alongside 100+ other models.

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O3 Mini

API model name: o3-mini

O3 Mini is OpenAI's chat model, served on the Api.Airforce unified API. Capabilities include Reasoning. It is priced at $3.75 per million input tokens and $15.06 per million output tokens. Access it through the OpenAI-compatible API with one key, alongside 100+ other models on Api.Airforce.

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Pricing

Input / 1M tokens

$3.75

Output / 1M tokens

$15.06

Cache read / 1M tokens

$1.89

Specifications

Provider: OpenAI
Type: chat model

Capabilities

Reasoning

Benchmarks

Independent evaluations and measured speed from Artificial Analysis.

Intelligence Index

15.6/100

Coding Index

16.3/100

MMLU-Pro80%

GPQA Diamond77%

Humanity's Last Exam12%

LiveCodeBench73%

MATH-50098%

Output speed187.6 tok/s

Time to first token20.29 s

Source: Benchmark data by Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)

What is O3 Mini used for?

Chatbots & assistants — conversational AI, drafting, summarizing and Q&A.
Complex reasoning — math, coding and step-by-step problem solving.

O3 Mini vs. similar models

Model	Intelligence	Context	Input / 1M	Output / 1M
O3 Mini	15.6	—	$3.75	$15.06
GPT 3.5	—	—	$0.47	$1.39
GPT 3.5 Turbo 16k	—	—	$10.26	$20.52
GPT 4	7.0	8K	$64.26	$128.52

Prices are Api.Airforce pay-as-you-go rates per 1M tokens. Context is the maximum input length.

O3 Mini — frequently asked questions

How much does O3 Mini cost?: O3 Mini is billed pay-as-you-go at $3.75 per 1M input tokens and $15.06 per 1M output tokens. There is no subscription — you only pay for what you use.
What can O3 Mini do?: O3 Mini supports Reasoning.
Is O3 Mini free to use?: O3 Mini is a paid, pay-as-you-go model — no subscription, you are only charged for usage.
How do I use O3 Mini via the API?: O3 Mini is OpenAI-compatible. Point any OpenAI SDK at https://api.airforce/v1 and pass the model ID o3-mini with your Api.Airforce API key.
Who makes O3 Mini?: O3 Mini is OpenAI's chat model, served through the unified Api.Airforce gateway alongside 100+ other models.

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Use O3 Mini via the API

OpenAI-compatible — point any OpenAI SDK at https://api.airforce/v1 and pass o3-mini as the model.

cURL

curl https://api.airforce/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AIRFORCE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "o3-mini",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Hello!" }]
  }'

Python

from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.airforce/v1", api_key="$AIRFORCE_API_KEY")
r = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="o3-mini",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(r.choices[0].message.content)

JavaScript

import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({ baseURL: "https://api.airforce/v1", apiKey: process.env.AIRFORCE_API_KEY });
const r = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "o3-mini",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" }],
});
console.log(r.choices[0].message.content);