GPT 5 Image Mini API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: February 7, 2026 at 08:06 AM

Overview

GPT 5 Image Mini was released on October 16, 2025. Pricing starts at $2.50 per million input tokens and $2.00 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 400K tokens. API access is available through OpenAI.

Context Window

400K

tokens

Pricing

Input$2.50

Output$2.00

Cached$0.250

per 1M tokens

Speed

Output-

TTFT-

median latency

Capabilities

VisionToolsCaching

Pricing Comparison

Compare GPT 5 Image Mini with 10 similar models by price.

Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

11 models

Provider	Model	Input $/M	Output $/M	Coding	MMLU	GPQA	Context	Actions
O OpenAI	GPT-5 Image Mini	$2.500	$2.000	—	—	—	400,000	Try in Playground
O OpenAI	o3	$2.000	$8.000	80.8	85.3	82.7	200,000	Try in Playground
MI Mistral AI	Mistral Large 2411	$2.000	$6.000	29.3	69.7	48.6	131,072	Try in Playground
MI Mistral AI	Mistral Large 2407	$2.000	$6.000	26.7	68.3	47.2	131,072	Try in Playground
MI Mistral AI	Pixtral Large 2411	$2.000	$6.000	26.1	70.1	50.5	131,072	Try in Playground
MI Mistral AI	Mixtral 8x22B Instruct	$2.000	$6.000	14.8	53.7	33.2	65,536	Try in Playground
MI Mistral AI	Mistral Large	$2.000	$6.000	17.8	51.5	35.1	128,000	Try in Playground
O OpenAI	GPT-4o (2024-11-20)	$2.500	$10.000	30.9	74.8	54.3	128,000	Try in Playground
O OpenAI	GPT Audio	$2.500	$10.000	—	—	—	128,000	Try in Playground
CO Cohere	Command R+ (08-2024)	$2.500	$10.000	—	38.0	13.4	128,000	Try in Playground
O OpenAI	GPT-4o (2024-08-06)	$2.500	$10.000	31.7	—	52.1	128,000	Try in Playground

* Some models use tiered pricing based on prompt length. Displayed prices are for prompts ≤ 200k tokens.

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GPT 5 Image Mini is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.

Providers

$2.500

Cheapest Input/M

$2.000

Cheapest Output/M

OpenAI

Best Price

Provider Pricing

1 models

Provider	Input $/M	Output $/M	Uptime
OpenAI Best Price	$2.500	$2.000	-

Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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