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GPT-5 vs o4 Mini High

A detailed comparison of pricing, benchmarks, and capabilities

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Key Takeaways

GPT-5 wins:

  • Larger context window
  • Faster response time
  • Higher intelligence benchmark
  • Better at coding
  • Better at math

o4 Mini High wins:

  • Cheaper input tokens
  • Cheaper output tokens
  • Has reasoning mode
Price Advantage
o4 Mini High
Benchmark Advantage
GPT-5
Context Window
GPT-5
Speed
GPT-5

Pricing Comparison

Price Comparison

MetricGPT-5o4 Mini HighWinner
Input (per 1M tokens)$1.25$1.10 o4 Mini High
Output (per 1M tokens)$10.00$4.40 o4 Mini High
Cache Read (per 1M)$125000.00$275000.00 GPT-5
Using a 3:1 input/output ratio, o4 Mini High is 44% cheaper overall.

GPT-5 Providers

OpenAI $1.25 (Cheapest)
Azure $1.25 (Cheapest)

o4 Mini High Providers

OpenAI $1.10 (Cheapest)

Benchmark Comparison

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Benchmark Scores

BenchmarkGPT-5o4 Mini HighWinner
Intelligence Index
Overall intelligence score
44.6--
Coding Index
Code generation & understanding
36.0--
Math Index
Mathematical reasoning
94.3--
MMLU Pro
Academic knowledge
87.1--
GPQA
Graduate-level science
85.4--
LiveCodeBench
Competitive programming
84.6--
Aider
Real-world code editing
88.0--
AIME
Competition math
95.7--
GPT-5 significantly outperforms in coding benchmarks.

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Context & Performance

Context Window

GPT-5
400,000
tokens
Max output: 128,000 tokens
o4 Mini High
200,000
tokens
Max output: 100,000 tokens
GPT-5 has a 50% larger context window.

Speed Performance

MetricGPT-5o4 Mini HighWinner
Tokens/second83.1 tok/sN/A
Time to First Token109.19sN/A

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureGPT-5o4 Mini High
Vision (Image Input)
Tool/Function Calls
Reasoning Mode
Audio Input
Audio Output
PDF Input
Prompt Caching
Web Search

License & Release

PropertyGPT-5o4 Mini High
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
AuthorOpenAIOpenAI
ReleasedAug 2025Apr 2025

GPT-5 Modalities

Input
textimagefile
Output
text

o4 Mini High Modalities

Input
imagetextfile
Output
text

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Frequently Asked Questions

o4 Mini High has cheaper input pricing at $1.10/M tokens. o4 Mini High has cheaper output pricing at $4.40/M tokens.
GPT-5 scores higher on coding benchmarks with a score of 36.0, compared to o4 Mini High's score of N/A.
GPT-5 has a 400,000 token context window, while o4 Mini High has a 200,000 token context window.
GPT-5 supports vision. o4 Mini High supports vision.