o4-mini-deep-research
o4-mini-deep-research is the faster, less expensive deep research specialization of o4-mini. It performs tool-based research across the web and supplied data to synthesize reports, using reasoning while balancing research quality against execution cost. It was separately offered in the Responses API. Its access to research tools should not be confused with unrestricted custom function calling.
2025-06-24
Unreleased
Undisclosed proprietary architecture
Proprietary
Specifications
- Parameters
- Unreleased
- Architecture
- Undisclosed proprietary architecture
- License
- Proprietary
- Context Window
- 200,000 tokens
- Max Output
- 100,000 tokens
- Training Data Cutoff
- Jun 01, 2024
- Type
- multimodal
- Modalities
- textimage
Benchmark Scores
Advanced Specifications
- Model Family
- o-series
- API Access
- Not Available
- Chat Interface
- Not Available
- Variants
- o4-mini-deep-research-2025-06-26
Capabilities & Limitations
- Capabilities
- deep researchweb searchevidence synthesisMCP data access
- Known Limitations
- Can produce incorrect factual claims or code; important results require independent verification.This API identity was retired on July 23, 2026; preserved for historical coverage.
- Notable Use Cases
- cost-sensitive researchautomated reportsdocument synthesis
- Function Calling Support
- No
- Tool Use Support
- Yes