GPT-5 Mini
- In Input modalities: TextImage Out Output modalities: Text
- Reasoning· minimal, low, medium, high
- Tool use
- Structured output
Prices
3 offerings · prices as listedgpt-5-mini| Conditions/ 1M tokens | Input | Cache read | Output |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | $0.25 | $0.025 | $2.00 |
| Flex tier | $0.125 | $0.0125 | $1.00 |
| Fast tier | $0.45 | $0.045 | $3.60 |
| Batch | $0.125 | $0.0125 | $1.00 |
Prices from OpenAI API pricing (opens in a new tab) (checked Nov 9, 2026)
Standard: the price a request with no conditions pays (the headline price elsewhere on the site).
Details
- Max input
- 272K
- Knowledge cutoff
- May 2024
- Open weights
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- Family
- gpt-mini
- Aliases
- gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
- Model ID
Not stated on OpenAI’s pages: reasoning can be off, max thinking budget, built-in tools.
Cited scores
From third-party leaderboards, not measured by us- Epoch Capabilities Index 146.1
#76 of 118 listed models · CI 144.6–147.6
- LMArena Text 1,390
#109 of 163 listed models · high effort · CI 1,385–1,395 · 26,721 votes
- LMArena Text · Chinese 1,404
#115 of 161 listed models · high effort · CI 1,390–1,418 · 1,946 votes
- LMArena Text · Coding 1,432
#112 of 163 listed models · high effort · CI 1,424–1,441 · 5,498 votes
- Epoch AI, 'Capabilities & benchmarking'. Published online at epoch.ai. Retrieved from 'https://epoch.ai/benchmarks'. Licensed CC BY 4.0. · License · as of Nov 5, 2026
- LMArena (Arena), leaderboard-dataset on Hugging Face, licensed CC BY 4.0 · License · as of Nov 8, 2026
- changes we made
Included in coding plans
- GitHub Copilot Free Free2,000 completions per monthLimited chat and agent usage
Changes
All changes →- Available → Deprecated
- 3 prices dropped on OpenAI API Input (Flex tier, Batch) $0.125 · Output (Flex tier, Batch) $1.00 · Cache read (Flex tier, Batch) $0.0125
- 3 new prices on OpenAI API Input (Flex tier, Batch) $0.125 · Output (Flex tier, Batch) $1.00 · Cache read (Flex tier, Batch) $0.0125
Sources
- Azure OpenAI pricing (opens in a new tab) azure.microsoft.com · checked Nov 8, 2026
- OpenAI API pricing (opens in a new tab) developers.openai.com · checked Nov 9, 2026
- GPT-5 Mini model (opens in a new tab) developers.openai.com · checked Nov 8, 2026
- Changelog (opens in a new tab) developers.openai.com · checked Nov 9, 2026
- Azure AI Foundry: model retirement schedule (opens in a new tab) learn.microsoft.com · checked Nov 7, 2026
- models.dev: gpt-5-mini (community data, MIT) (opens in a new tab) github.com · checked Sep 30, 2026
- GPT-5 Mini (opens in a new tab) developers.openai.com · checked Nov 7, 2026
- Deprecations (opens in a new tab) developers.openai.com · checked Nov 8, 2026
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