Granite 4.0 Micro vs o4 Mini Deep Research: side-by-side summary

Granite 4.0 Micro and o4 Mini Deep Research are available through the OpenRouter API, so switching between them takes a model slug change rather than a new integration.

Granite 4.0 Micro, from ibm-granite, has a 131,000-token context window and is priced at $0.017/M tokens input, $0.112/M tokens output on OpenRouter.

o4 Mini Deep Research, from OpenAI, has a 200,000-token context window and is priced by the provider serving it on OpenRouter.

Context window

• Granite 4.0 Micro: 131,000 tokens
• o4 Mini Deep Research: 200,000 tokens

Price

• Granite 4.0 Micro: $0.017/M tokens input, $0.112/M tokens output
• o4 Mini Deep Research: Pricing varies by provider

Provided by

• Granite 4.0 Micro: ibm-granite
• o4 Mini Deep Research: OpenAI

• Granite 4.0 Micro model details, providers and pricing
• o4 Mini Deep Research model details, providers and pricing