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O4 Mini

O4 Mini is a language model from OpenAI, released April 2025. OpenAI describes it as “OpenAI o4-mini is a compact reasoning model in the o-series, optimized for fast, cost-efficient performance while retaining strong multimodal and agentic….”

27

replies recorded

3

questions answered

0

answers no other model gave

Fun facts

O4 Mini is a dog person, 7 of 8 times.

O4 Mini’s canon

Cat or dog
“Dog”7 of 8

What it says every single time

Cat person or dog person

“Dog”every single time

12 of 12 samples · the most common answer · Cats and dogs study →

Cat or dog, which it would rather be

“Dog”every single time

7 of 7 samples · most models said “Cat” · Cats and dogs study →

About O4 Mini

Maker
OpenAI · San Francisco
Released
April 2025
Size
mid-size, by price class
Context window
200,000 tokens
Takes in
image, text, file
Also from OpenAI
GPT-5.6 Terra · GPT-4o Mini · GPT-5.4 Mini · GPT-5.6 Luna · GPT-5.4 · GPT-4.1 · GPT-5.5 · GPT-5

Maker and release facts come from the model catalogue we call through, not from this site’s own studies. Catalogue facts as of 2026-09-06.

Everything on file

Every question this model has answered on Machine Canon, grouped by study. Open a study to see its answers; the answers no other model gave come first.

Cats and dogs 3 questions

Cat person or dog person

“Dog”every single time

12 of 12 samples · the most common answer · Cats and dogs study →

Cat or dog, which it would rather be

“Dog”every single time

7 of 7 samples · most models said “Cat” · Cats and dogs study →

Cat or dog, as a pet

“Dog”

7 of 8 samples · the most common answer · Cats and dogs study →

Each answer is the one this model gave most often to that question; the count shows how many of its replies matched. “No other model said this” means no other model’s most common answer matched. All numbers are computed from the retained research records by src/build_model_dossiers.py.