Overview
GPT 5 Mini was released on August 7, 2025. Pricing starts at $0.250 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$0.250
Output$2.00
Cached$0.025
per 1M tokens
Speed
Output74 tok/s
TTFT124.49s
median latency
Capabilities
VisionToolsCaching
Pricing Comparison
Compare GPT 5 Mini with 10 similar models by price.
Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)
11 models
Provider | Model | Input $/M | Output $/M | Context | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
$0.250 | $2.000 | 400,000 | |||
QW | $0.210 | $0.630 | 7,500 | ||
DS | $0.210 | $0.320 | 163,840 | ||
DS | $0.210 | $0.790 | 163,840 | ||
QW | $0.220 | $0.950 | 262,144 | ||
TN | $0.250 | $0.850 | 163,840 | ||
$0.250 | $1.000 | 128,000 | |||
$0.250 | $1.000 | 128,000 | |||
$0.250 | $2.000 | 262,144 | |||
TN | $0.250 | $0.850 | 163,840 | ||
$0.250 | $2.000 | 400,000 |
* Some models use tiered pricing based on prompt length. Displayed prices are for prompts ≤ 200k tokens.
Compare Providers
GPT 5 Mini is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.
3
Providers
$0.250
Cheapest Input/M
$2.000
Cheapest Output/M
OpenAI
Best Price
Provider Pricing
3 models
Provider | Input $/M | Output $/M | Uptime |
|---|---|---|---|
 OpenAI Best Price | $0.250 | $2.000 | 100.0% |
 OpenRouter Best Price | $0.250 | $2.000 | - |
A Azure Best Price | $0.250 | $2.000 | 100.0% |
Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone
Cost vs. Quality
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Detailed Benchmark Scores
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40.6 (94th pct)
Coding
33.9 (91th pct)
Math
90.7 (90th pct)
MMLU Pro
83.7 (86th pct)
GPQA
82.8 (93th pct)
LiveCodeBench
83.8 (94th pct)
AIME
-
Aider
-
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard
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