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GPT-5 Mini

CTX400K

69Quality

Reasoning · Vision · Tools

Input$0.25/M

Output$2/M

Small GPT-5 for responsive agents, coding help, and everyday automation

PaidProprietary634/1044

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GPT-5 Mini

Small GPT-5 for responsive agents, coding help, and everyday automation

gpt-5-mini

Type: Text
Quality: 69 · Top 31% on the Epoch Capabilities Index
Context window: 400,000 tokens
Max output: 128,000 tokens
Input price: $0.25 / 1M tokens
Output price: $2.00 / 1M tokens
Cache read: $0.025 / 1M tokens
Cache write: —
Released: Aug 7, 2025
Knowledge cutoff: May 2024
Takes in: Text, Image
Puts out: Text
Reasoning: Yes
Tool calling: Yes
Structured output: Yes
File attachments: Yes
Access: Paid
License: Proprietary
Rarity: Uncommon
Set number: 634/1044

Open OpenAI docs Quality 69 Where to run it 37 Evolution 3/4 Meet its creature Battle Grok Build 0.1

Weights aren’t public. Use is governed by OpenAI’s terms. Specs from models.dev, last changed Oct 19, 2026. Official source: platform.openai.com.

How good is it?

Public leaderboard scores for GPT-5 Mini, refreshed daily from Epoch AI and LMArena.

Top 31% of the 277 models on the Epoch Capabilities Index: #87.

Quality is the share of a leaderboard’s models this one beats, from 0 to 100. Chat models are rated on Epoch AI’s Capabilities Index when it lists them, otherwise on LMArena; image and video models on LMArena’s image and video arenas.

Leaderboards

Epoch Capabilities Index#87 of 277
One number fitted from dozens of hard benchmarks, from science questions to agentic coding.145.4 index
LMArena Text#180 of 416
People compare two anonymous answers and vote for the better one.1,373 rating
Listed as gpt-5-mini-high
LMArena Text · Coding#168 of 411
The text arena’s coding prompts only.1,406 rating
Listed as gpt-5-mini-high
LMArena Text · Math#183 of 400
The text arena’s math prompts only.1,377 rating
Listed as gpt-5-mini-high
LMArena Text · Creative writing#195 of 414
The text arena’s creative writing prompts only.1,325 rating
Listed as gpt-5-mini-high
LMArena Vision#91 of 165
Questions about images, voted by people.1,202 rating
Listed as gpt-5-mini-high

Benchmarks Epoch AI runs

Scores from Epoch AI and LMArena, licensed CC BY 4.0. Boards list models under their own names, so a close match is shown with the name it was scored under. Credits

Where to run it

37 providers sell GPT-5 Mini through an API. Prices are per million tokens, cheapest first.

CheapestQiHang$0.04 in · $0.29 out
From the labOpenAI$0.25 in · $2.00 out

API providers

Provider	Input	Output	Context
QiHangCheapest paid`gpt-5-mini`	$0.04	$0.29	200K
Poe`openai/gpt-5-mini`	$0.22	$1.80	400K
Jiekou.AI`gpt-5-mini`	$0.23	$1.80	400K
302.AI`gpt-5-mini`	$0.25	$2.00	400K
Abacus`gpt-5-mini`	$0.25	$2.00	400K
Azure`gpt-5-mini`	$0.25	$2.00	400K
Azure Cognitive Services`gpt-5-mini`	$0.25	$2.00	400K
Cloudflare AI Gateway`openai/gpt-5-mini`	$0.25	$2.00	128K
Databricks`databricks-gpt-5-mini`	$0.25	$2.00	400K
DevPass (LLM Gateway)`gpt-5-mini`	$0.25	$2.00	400K

Show 27 more providers

Provider	Input	Output	Context
Eden AI`openai/gpt-5-mini`	$0.25	$2.00	400K
FastRouter`openai/gpt-5-mini`	$0.25	$2.00	400K
GitHub Copilot`gpt-5-mini`	$0.25	$2.00	264K
Helicone`gpt-5-mini`	$0.25	$2.00	400K
Impossibl`openai/gpt-5-mini`	$0.25	$2.00	400K
Kilo Gateway`openai/gpt-5-mini`	$0.25	$2.00	400K
LLM Gateway`azure/gpt-5-mini`	$0.25	$2.00	400K
LowRouter`auto/openai/gpt-5-mini`	$0.25	$2.00	400K
Merge Gateway`openai/gpt-5-mini`	$0.25	$2.00	400K
NanoGPT`openai/gpt-5-mini`	$0.25	$2.00	400K
NEAR AI Cloud`openai/gpt-5-mini`	$0.25	$2.00	400K
Neon`gpt-5-mini`	$0.25	$2.00	400K
Ofox`openai/gpt-5-mini`	$0.25	$2.00	256K
OpenAIOfficial`gpt-5-mini`	$0.25	$2.00	400K
OpenRouter`openai/gpt-5-mini`	$0.25	$2.00	400K
OrcaRouter`openai/gpt-5-mini`	$0.25	$2.00	400K
Perplexity Agent`openai/gpt-5-mini`	$0.25	$2.00	400K
Pioneer`gpt-5-mini`	$0.25	$2.00	400K
Prime Inference`openai/gpt-5-mini`	$0.25	$2.00	400K
SAP AI Core`gpt-5-mini`	$0.25	$2.00	400K
Vercel AI Gateway`openai/gpt-5-mini`	$0.25	$2.00	400K
Vivgrid`gpt-5-mini`	$0.25	$2.00	272K
Cortecs`gpt-5-mini`	$0.28	$2.19	400K
Requesty`gpt-5-mini@eu`	$0.28	$2.20	200K
AI/ML API`openai/gpt-5-mini`	$0.33	$2.60	400K
AnyAPI`openai/gpt-5-mini`	—	—	400K
Snowflake Cortex`openai-gpt-5-mini`	—	—	272K

From models.dev and Hugging Face, checked daily. Resellers’ listings can lag behind their price pages, so confirm with the provider before you commit.

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Leaderboards

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