TIL: Exploring OpenAI’s deep research API model o4-mini-deep-research. I landed a PR by Manuel Solorzano adding pricing information to llm-prices.com for OpenAI’s o4-mini-deep-research and o3-deep-research models, which they released in June and document here.
I realized I’d never tried these before, so I put o4-mini-deep-research through its paces researching locations of surviving orchestrions for me (I really like orchestrions).
The API cost me $1.10 and triggered a small flurry of extra vibe-coded tools, including this new tool for visualizing Responses API traces from deep research models and this mocked up page listing the 19 orchestrions it found (only one of which I have fact-checked myself).
