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OpenAI · Released Aug 7, 2025

GPT-5 Mini

GPT-5 Mini is a compact version of GPT-5, designed to handle lighter-weight reasoning tasks. It provides the same instruction-following and safety-tuning benefits as GPT-5, but with reduced latency and cost....

ReasoningVision
  • Top 26%Lech Mazur Writing
  • Top 39%VPCT
  • Top 47%OTIS Mock AIME
  • Top 50%Fiction.LiveBench
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Released
Aug 7 2025
Context window
400K 128K out
Input / 1M tokens
$0.25 from $0.04
Output / 1M tokens
$2.00 from $0.29

Where to run it

37 providers compared

Included in GitLab Duo. Cheapest: QiHang at $0.04 / $0.29 per 1M input / output tokens — 92% less than the priciest option.

ProviderInputOutputCache readContextMax outputUptimevs. best
GitLab Duosubscription plan Plan Plan —400K128K— Plan
QiHang $0.04 $0.29 —200K64K— Cheapest
OpenAI $0.13 $1.00 $0.012400K128K100%24h +235%
Poe $0.23 $1.82 $0.023400K128K— +510%
Jiekou.AI $0.24 $1.90 $0.024400K128K— +538%
Azure $0.25 $2.00 $0.03400K360K100%24h +571%
OpenAI $0.25 $2.00 $0.025400K128K100%24h +571%
Helicone $0.25 $2.00 $0.025400K128K— +571%
NanoGPTno tool calling $0.25 $2.00 $0.025400K128K— +571%
Cloudflare AI Gateway $0.25 $2.00 $0.025128K128K— +571%
Snowflake Cortex $0.25 $2.00 $0.03272K8K— +571%
Kilo Gateway $0.25 $2.00 $0.025400K128K— +571%
LLM Gateway $0.25 $2.00 $0.025400K128K— +571%
Databricks $0.25 $2.00 $0.025400K128K— +571%
Pioneer $0.25 $2.00 $0.025400K128K— +571%
FastRouter $0.25 $2.00 $0.025400K128K— +571%
SAP AI Core $0.25 $2.00 $0.025400K128K— +571%
302.AI $0.25 $2.00 $0.025400K128K— +571%
DigitalOcean $0.25 $2.00 $0.025400K128K— +571%
GitHub Copilot $0.25 $2.00 $0.025264K64K— +571%
Perplexity Agent $0.25 $2.00 $0.025400K128K— +571%
Prime Inference $0.25 $2.00 —400K128K— +571%
Neon $0.25 $2.00 $0.025400K128K— +571%
Azure Cognitive Services $0.25 $2.00 $0.025400K128K— +571%
Vivgrid $0.25 $2.00 $0.03272K128K— +571%
Abacus $0.25 $2.00 $0.025400K128K— +571%
DevPass (LLM Gateway) $0.25 $2.00 $0.025400K128K— +571%
Merge Gateway $0.25 $2.00 $0.025400K128K— +571%
Ofox $0.25 $2.00 $0.03256K33K— +571%
LowRouter $0.25 $2.00 $0.025400K128K— +571%
Impossibl $0.25 $2.00 $0.025400K128K— +571%
OrcaRouter $0.25 $2.00 $0.025400K128K— +571%
NEAR AI Cloud $0.25 $2.00 $0.025400K128K— +571%
Eden AI $0.25 $2.00 $0.025400K128K— +571%
Azureswedencentral $0.28 $2.20 $0.033400K360K100%24h +638%
Requesty $0.28 $2.20 $0.028200K100K— +638%
Cortecs $0.28 $2.19 $0.056400K128K— +639%
AI/ML API $0.33 $2.60 $0.033400K128K— +772%
Vercel AI Gateway $0.45 $3.60 $0.045400K128K— +1107%

Value

Price vs. performance

20 models score higher for the same price or lesson GPQA Diamond, e.g. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017.
23.2%47.6%72.0%96.4% $0.001$0.01$0.10$1.00$10.00$100.00 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (DeepSeek) — 93.2% · $0.15/1M in Gemini 4 Argon (Google) — 96.4% · $2.00/1M in Claude Haiku 5.5 (Anthropic) — 89.6% · $0.10/1M in Mistral Large 4 (Mistral) — 88.1% · $1.36/1M in Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Anthropic) — 95.6% · $2.00/1M in Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic) — 90.6% · $4.00/1M in Grok 4.7 (xAI) — 92.7% · $2.00/1M in DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (DeepSeek) — 93.2% · $0.30/1M in Qwen3.8 Max (0902) (Qwen) — 92.7% · $2.00/1M in Gemini 3.8 Flash (Google) — 95.4% · $0.82/1M in GLM 5.3 Flash (Z.ai) — 90.1% · $0.005/1M in GLM 5.3 (Z.ai) — 90.9% · $0.70/1M in Gemini 3.7 Flash (Google) — 94.8% · $0.75/1M in DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (DeepSeek) — 91.7% · $0.66/1M in Grok 4.6 (xAI) — 94.0% · $2.00/1M in DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (DeepSeek) — 91.0% · $0.044/1M in Qwen3.7 Flash (Qwen) — 82.3% · $0.03/1M in Claude Opus 5 (Anthropic) — 93.9% · $5.00/1M in Gemini 3.6 Flash (Google) — 94.1% · $0.75/1M in Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (Google) — 83.3% · $0.30/1M in Kimi K3 (Moonshot AI) — 93.1% · $0.24/1M in Grok 4.5 (xAI) — 93.4% · $2.00/1M in Claude Sonnet 5 (Anthropic) — 90.5% · $2.00/1M in GLM 5.2 (Z.ai) — 91.9% · $0.034/1M in Kimi K2.7 Code (Moonshot AI) — 87.9% · $0.67/1M in Claude Fable 5 (Anthropic) — 85.9% · $10.00/1M in Qwen3.7 Plus (Qwen) — 87.9% · $0.32/1M in MiniMax M3 (MiniMax) — 90.9% · $0.30/1M in Claude Opus 4.8 (Anthropic) — 91.0% · $5.00/1M in Qwen3.7 Max (Qwen) — 90.9% · $1.48/1M in Gemini 3.5 Flash (Google) — 92.8% · $1.50/1M in Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (Google) — 81.8% · $0.25/1M in Grok 4.3 (xAI) — 88.8% · $1.25/1M in Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 (Qwen) — 84.9% · $0.30/1M in Qwen3.6 Flash (Qwen) — 83.3% · $0.19/1M in Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Qwen) — 84.9% · $0.10/1M in Qwen3.6 27B (Qwen) — 85.9% · $0.25/1M in DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 (DeepSeek) — 91.7% · $0.44/1M in DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 (DeepSeek) — 91.0% · $0.091/1M in Kimi K2.6 (Moonshot AI) — 90.8% · $0.65/1M in Claude Opus 4.7 (Anthropic) — 90.1% · $5.00/1M in GLM 5.1 (Z.ai) — 89.9% · $1.40/1M in Gemma 4 26B A4B (Google) — 73.2% · $0.09/1M in Gemma 4 31B (Google) — 75.8% · $0.20/1M in Qwen3.6 Plus (Qwen) — 88.4% · $0.33/1M in Mistral Small 4 (Mistral) — 47.5% · $0.15/1M in Qwen3.5-9B (Qwen) — 79.0% · $0.08/1M in Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview (Google) — 81.8% · $0.25/1M in Qwen3.5-35B-A3B (Qwen) — 83.5% · $0.14/1M in Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (Google) — 94.4% · $2.00/1M in Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Anthropic) — 87.4% · $3.00/1M in Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Qwen) — 86.4% · $0.50/1M in GLM 5 (Z.ai) — 87.8% · $1.00/1M in Claude Opus 4.6 (Anthropic) — 90.5% · $5.00/1M in GLM 4.7 Flash (Z.ai) — 60.5% · $0.061/1M in GLM 4.7 (Z.ai) — 83.3% · $0.54/1M in Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Google) — 89.4% · $0.50/1M in Ministral 3 8B 2512 (Mistral) — 27.2% · $0.15/1M in Ministral 3 3B 2512 (Mistral) — 25.3% · $0.10/1M in Mistral Large 3 2512 (Mistral) — 51.3% · $0.50/1M in Claude Opus 4.5 (Anthropic) — 86.1% · $5.00/1M in Claude Haiku 4.5 (Anthropic) — 71.2% · $1.00/1M in Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Anthropic) — 82.3% · $3.00/1M in Claude Opus 4.1 (Anthropic) — 77.3% · $15.00/1M in Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 (Qwen) — 55.6% · $0.09/1M in Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 (Qwen) — 80.0% · $0.45/1M in Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 (Qwen) — 70.7% · $0.09/1M in Gemini 2.5 Pro (Google) — 85.3% · $1.25/1M in Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 (Google) — 85.3% · $1.25/1M in R1 0528 (DeepSeek) — 76.3% · $0.50/1M in Qwen3 30B A3B (Qwen) — 61.7% · $0.12/1M in Qwen3 14B (Qwen) — 63.8% · $0.12/1M in Qwen3 32B (Qwen) — 65.7% · $0.08/1M in Gemma 3 4B (Google) — 23.2% · $0.04/1M in Gemma 3 12B (Google) — 39.5% · $0.05/1M in Gemma 3 27B (Google) — 47.7% · $0.08/1M in Qwen-Plus (Qwen) — 48.1% · $0.26/1M in Phi 4 (Microsoft) — 56.1% · $0.07/1M in DeepSeek V3 (DeepSeek) — 71.2% · $0.26/1M in Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (Meta) — 47.4% · $0.10/1M in Mistral Large 2407 (Mistral) — 51.3% · $2.00/1M in Llama 3.2 1B Instruct (Meta) — 23.9% · $0.027/1M in Llama 3.1 70B Instruct (Meta) — 44.2% · $0.40/1M in Llama 3.1 8B Instruct (Meta) — 27.0% · $0.05/1M in Gemma 2 27B (Google) — 36.5% · $0.65/1M in Mistral Large (Mistral) — 51.3% · $2.00/1M in GPT-6.1 Sol (OpenAI) — 95.4% · $2.00/1M in GPT-6 Luna (OpenAI) — 90.5% · $0.10/1M in GPT-6 Sol (OpenAI) — 94.3% · $2.00/1M in GPT-6 Astra (OpenAI) — 95.8% · $10.00/1M in GPT-5.6 Luna (OpenAI) — 91.6% · $0.20/1M in GPT-5.6 Terra (OpenAI) — 93.3% · $2.00/1M in GPT-5.6 Sol (OpenAI) — 93.5% · $4.00/1M in GPT-5.5 (OpenAI) — 90.7% · $5.00/1M in GPT-5.4 Nano (OpenAI) — 78.5% · $0.20/1M in GPT-5.4 Mini (OpenAI) — 86.9% · $0.75/1M in GPT-5.4 Pro (OpenAI) — 94.6% · $30.00/1M in GPT-5.4 (OpenAI) — 93.3% · $2.50/1M in GPT-5.2 (OpenAI) — 91.4% · $1.75/1M in GPT-5.1 (OpenAI) — 87.6% · $1.25/1M in GPT-5 (OpenAI) — 86.2% · $1.25/1M in GPT-5 Nano (OpenAI) — 69.4% · $0.05/1M in gpt-oss-120b (OpenAI) — 75.8% · $0.15/1M in gpt-oss-20b (OpenAI) — 60.8% · $0.018/1M in o3 (OpenAI) — 81.8% · $2.00/1M in o4 Mini (OpenAI) — 79.6% · $1.10/1M in GPT-4.1 (OpenAI) — 66.9% · $2.00/1M in GPT-4.1 Mini (OpenAI) — 65.8% · $0.40/1M in GPT-4.1 Nano (OpenAI) — 48.9% · $0.10/1M in o3 Mini (OpenAI) — 77.0% · $1.10/1M in o1 (OpenAI) — 76.8% · $15.00/1M in GPT-4o (2024-11-20) (OpenAI) — 49.2% · $2.50/1M in GPT-4o (2024-08-06) (OpenAI) — 49.2% · $2.50/1M in GPT-4o-mini (OpenAI) — 37.7% · $0.15/1M in GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) (OpenAI) — 37.7% · $0.15/1M in GPT-4o (OpenAI) — 49.2% · $2.50/1M in GPT-4o (2024-05-13) (OpenAI) — 49.2% · $5.00/1M in GPT-4 Turbo (OpenAI) — 46.6% · $10.00/1M in GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613) (OpenAI) — 28.0% · $1.00/1M in GPT-3.5 Turbo (OpenAI) — 28.0% · $0.50/1M in GPT-4 (OpenAI) — 35.7% · $30.00/1M in GPT-5 Mini (OpenAI) — 75.0% · $0.25/1M in GPT-5 Mini

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Benchmarks

19 benchmark scores

BenchmarkScoreRankLeader
SWE-bench VerifiedSoftware engineering · Real GitHub issues fixed in Python repos 64.7% #23of 32 Claude Opus 4.783.5%
Terminal-BenchSoftware engineering · Tasks completed with the programs in a real terminal (best agent) 34.8% #29of 40 GPT-5.584.7%
SciCodeSoftware engineering · Research-coding problems from the natural sciences 39.2% #78of 102 Claude Opus 5.566.9%
Vending-Bench 2Agents & computer use · Run a simulated vending business for a year (final balance) $-31 #61of 61 GPT-6 Astra$15,515
Lech Mazur WritingWriting & content · Short stories weaving 10 required elements, judged 0–10 8.31/10 #7of 27 GPT-58.60/10
Fiction.LiveBenchWriting & content · Understanding long creative writing (16k tokens) 69.4% #12of 24 GPT-597.2%
SimpleQA VerifiedWriting & content · Factual accuracy on 1,000 short questions 21.6% #67of 79 Gemini 4 Argon76.0%
VPCTDesign & visual · Read diagrams of balls rolling down ramps 40.2% #7of 18 GPT-5.284.0%
GPQA DiamondReasoning & knowledge · PhD-level biology, chemistry and physics questions 75.0% #82of 122 Gemini 4 Argon96.4%
Humanity's Last ExamReasoning & knowledge · Expert questions across 100+ subjects 19.4% #18of 32 GPT-6 Astra54.8%
ARC-AGI-2Reasoning & knowledge · Few-shot abstract reasoning on grid puzzles 4.4% #60of 75 GPT-6 Astra95.0%
ARC-AGI-1Reasoning & knowledge · Pattern induction from input–output examples 54.3% #57of 75 Gemini 4 Argon98.5%
CritPtReasoning & knowledge · Open-ended, research-level physics problems 0.0% #92of 111 GPT-5.6 Sol32.3%
Chess PuzzlesReasoning & knowledge · Find the single best move in 100 new puzzles 24.0% #52of 83 GPT-6 Astra76.0%
LMCAReasoning & knowledge · Judge the quality of conceptual arguments like experts 34.2% #71of 123 Claude Sonnet 5.568.3%
FrontierMathMaths · Expert-written problems, undergrad to early research (tiers 1–3) 46.7% #53of 87 GPT-6.1 Sol93.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4Maths · Exceptionally hard research-level problems 12.2% #52of 64 GPT-6.1 Sol100.0%
ProofBenchMaths · Graduate maths proofs verified in Lean 4 9.0% #65of 70 Claude Sonnet 5.5100.0%
OTIS Mock AIMEMaths · Competition-style problems harder than MATH Level 5 86.7% #56of 120 Gemini 4 Argon100.0%

Specs

Details

Model ID
openai/gpt-5-mini
Developer
OpenAI
Release date
Aug 7, 2025 ·
Context window
400,000 tokens
Max output
128,000 tokens
API price
$0.25 / $2.00 per 1M input / output tokens
Providers
37
Input types
text, image, file
Reasoning
Yes
Tool calling
Yes
Open weights
No
Free tier
No

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