expectedOpenAIExpected: Q2 2026

OpenAI o4-mini API

Cheaper, faster o4 variant. Targets high-volume reasoning traffic where you don't need full o4 depth.

What we know

Cheaper, faster o4 variant. Targets high-volume reasoning traffic where you don't need full o4 depth.

Why it matters: o4-mini will be the price-performance sweet spot for agent workflows.

Expected pricing: ~$1 / $4 per 1M tokens

Current best equivalent

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GPT-5.1

Cheapest current OpenAI reasoning-capable tier — same API.

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We'll auto-switch your API calls to OpenAI o4-mini the moment it launches — no code changes required.

Call it with curl

curl -X POST https://api.skillboss.co/v1/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SKILLBOSS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "skill_id": "openai/gpt-5.1",
    "input": {
      "prompt": "Say hello from OpenAI o4-mini — routed via SkillBoss"
    }
  }'

Alternate options

ModelSkill IDTradeoff
DeepSeek R1deepseek/deepseek-r1Open-weight, lower cost

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