OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini

Public pricingIntelligence 79/100Large memoryVisionDeep thinkingTool use

OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini is a multimodal model for multimodal reasoning and analysis. It combines multimodal input handling and deep reasoning and planning with a 400K tokens context window and a low-cost profile. Use it for multimodal reasoning and analysis when latency, cost, and throughput matters.

Input

$0.25/1M

Output

$2.00/1M

Cached

$0.03/1M

Batch

$0.13/1M

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Technical specifications

GPT-5 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

Aug 2025

Training cutoff

May 2024

Availability

Public pricing

Status

active

Benchmarks

Quality benchmarks

Independent evaluations from public leaderboards. Higher is better.

  • mmlu

    82.8

  • gpqa_diamond

    80.3

  • aa_intelligence_index

    41

  • swe_bench_verified

    64.67

  • frontiermath_tier_4

    6.25

  • humanitys_last_exam

    19.44

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 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.

Alternatives

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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 Mini costs roughly $99 per month. Input is $0.25 /1M tokens and output is $2.00 /1M tokens.
GPT-5 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 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 Mini was released in August 2025, with training data cut off around May 2024.
Models in a similar class include GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini, GPT-5.4 Nano, GPT-5 Nano. The "Similar models" section below this FAQ links into each.

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