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GPT 5 Mini API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: May 13, 2026 at 08:24 AM

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
Output77 tok/s
TTFT14.39s
median latency
Capabilities
VisionReasoningToolsCaching

Pricing Comparison

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Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

1 models

Provider
Model
Input $/M
Output $/M
Coding
MMLU
GPQA
Context
Actions
$0.250
$2.000
69.2
82.8
80.3
400,000
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* Some models use tiered pricing based on prompt length. Displayed prices are for prompts ≤ 200k tokens.

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Detailed Benchmark Scores

Intelligence
38.9 (87th pct)
Coding
32.9 (78th pct)
Math
85.0 (84th pct)
MMLU Pro
82.8 (79th pct)
GPQA
80.3 (82th pct)
LiveCodeBench
69.2 (79th pct)
AIME
-
Aider
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Frequently Asked Questions

GPT 5 Mini costs $0.000250 per 1,000 input tokens and $0.002000 per 1,000 output tokens.

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