Is Microsoft Azure AI Foundry o4-mini deprecated?
Yes. o4-mini is deprecated and Microsoft Azure AI Foundry shuts it down on 2026-10-16 — in 25 days.
What kind of model is this?
Tags describe what o4-mini takes in, what it is built for and how you can get it. Modality, access and language tags follow Microsoft Azure AI Foundry's own documentation; tier and use-case tags are our reading of the line-up.
- Modality
- Use case
- Tier
- Access
Specifications
- Input price
- $1.10 / M tokens
- Output price
- $4.40 / M tokens
- Price band
- Standard
- Context window
- 200K tokens
- Max output
- unknown
- Input
- Text, image
- Output
- Text
- Knowledge cutoff
- unknown
- Tool use
- unknown
- Structured output
- unknown
- Weights licence
- not published
- Model maker
- OpenAI
“unknown” means the figure has not been published, or we have not verified it yet — never that the answer is no. “not published” under the weights licence means this model is not offered with downloadable weights. The price band is ours: it bands the blended price (three parts input to one part output) as budget (≤ $0.50), standard (≤ $3), premium (≤ $12) or flagship.
Lifecycle
- Released unknown
- Deprecated not announced Microsoft Azure AI Foundry has not published the date this happened
- Retired in 25 days
What is it good for?
No editorial profile for this model yet. The specifications above come from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry's own documentation and the suggestions below are derived from the data — shared tags, tier and price band — not written by hand.
What to use instead of o4-mini
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GPT-5 mini Derived
Same provider, same tier (small), similar price; shares coding, reasoning and long-context.
$0.25 in · $2.00 out / M tokens 400K context
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GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini Derived
Same provider, same tier (small), similar price; shares coding, reasoning and long-context.
$0.25 in · $2.00 out / M tokens 400K context
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GPT-5.4 mini Derived
Same provider, same tier (small), similar price; shares coding, reasoning and long-context.
$0.75 in · $4.50 out / M tokens 400K context
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GPT-5 nano Derived
Same provider, same tier (small), close in price; shares coding, reasoning and long-context.
$0.05 in · $0.40 out / M tokens 400K context
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Claude Haiku 4.5 Derived
Alternative from Amazon Bedrock, same tier (small), similar price; shares coding, reasoning and long-context.
$1.00 in · $5.00 out / M tokens 200K context
Derived suggestions are ranked from the data — shared tags, the same tier and a comparable price band — not from benchmark scores. Check the capability fit yourself: we track lifecycle, price and specifications.
Sources
- learn.microsoft.com https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/openai/concepts/model-retirement-schedule
- learn.microsoft.com https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/foundry-models/concepts/models-sold-directly-by-azure
- prices.azure.com https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?$filter=serviceName eq 'Foundry Models' and contains(meterName,'o4-mini 0416')
Verified against the source on . Dataset snapshot . Providers can change a date without notice — the link above is always the final word.
Common questions
- Is o4-mini deprecated?
- Yes. o4-mini is deprecated and Microsoft Azure AI Foundry shuts it down on 2026-10-16 — in 25 days.
- When does o4-mini shut down?
- Microsoft Azure AI Foundry has announced 2026-10-16 as the shutdown date for o4-mini.
- What does o4-mini cost?
- $1.10 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens, as last verified on 2026-09-10.
- What can I use instead of o4-mini?
- Active alternatives include Microsoft Azure AI Foundry GPT-5 mini, Microsoft Azure AI Foundry GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini, Microsoft Azure AI Foundry GPT-5.4 mini.