OpenAI: GPT-5 Image Mini

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OpenAI: GPT-5 Image Mini is a multimodal model for image generation and editing. It combines multimodal input handling and image understanding with a 400K tokens context window and a premium profile. Use it for image generation and editing when latency, cost, and throughput matters. It is a practical choice for teams that need reliable output, flexible deployment, and room to scale.

Input

$2.50/1M

Output

$2.00/1M

Cached

$0.25/1M

Batch

$0.13/1M

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Technical specifications

GPT-5 Image Mini at a glance.

Memory

400,000

tokens

Max reply

128,000

tokens

Memory tier

Large

an entire book or large codebase

Tokenizer

tiktoken-o200k

Released

Oct 2025

Training cutoff

Sep 2024

Availability

Public pricing

Status

active

What it can do

Capabilities & limits.

  • Understands images
  • Deep step-by-step thinking
  • Uses tools / calls functions
  • Strict JSON output
  • Streams replies
  • Fine-tunable on your data

When to pick GPT-5 Image Mini

  • Multi-step reasoning, research agents, or hard math.
  • Screenshot analysis, image understanding, or document OCR.
  • Agentic workflows that call tools or APIs.
  • Long documents, full codebases, or extensive chat histories.

When to look elsewhere

  • Very latency-sensitive, real-time apps where every millisecond counts.

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FAQ

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At a typical workload of 50,000 conversations a month with 1,500-token prompts and 800-token replies, GPT-5 Image Mini costs roughly $268 per month. Input is $2.50 /1M tokens and output is $2.00 /1M tokens.
GPT-5 Image Mini has a 400,000-token context window (large memory — an entire book or large codebase). That means you can fit about 75,000 words of input and history in a single call.
Beyond text generation, GPT-5 Image Mini supports understanding images, deep step-by-step reasoning, calling functions / tools, strict JSON output, fine-tuning on your own data. It streams replies by default.
GPT-5 Image Mini was released in October 2025, with training data cut off around September 2024.
Models in a similar class include GPT-5.4, o3, o4 Mini Deep Research. The "Similar models" section below this FAQ links into each.

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