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GPT-5 mini

by OpenAI

Current mid tier cheap tier
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Availability: OpenAI still prices the bare gpt-5-mini alias per token on its own rate card and announces no shutdown date for it. The pinned snapshot gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 is separately scheduled to shut down on December 11, 2026; that date applies to the pinned snapshot, not to the gpt-5-mini alias, so this row carries no shutdown date. If OpenAI later names the bare alias itself, this row ages to Deprecated on that date. Checked against OpenAI's deprecations page on 2026-08-25.

Today's price · per 1M tokens

Input

$0.250

per 1M tokens

Output

$2.00

per 1M tokens

Blended

$0.688

blended $/1M — 3:1 weighted input:output

Cached input

$0.025

10% of input — prompt caching

Source: official OpenAI pricing · read Aug 25, 2026 MODELPRICEWATCH.COM · 2026-08-28

Price receipt

We read OpenAI's own pricing page on Aug 25, 2026 and found gpt-5-mini listed with a price on the same row — that read is where the number above comes from, recorded as a new model. We keep the page text we read; its content hash is 0359f17f7e.

Overview

Near-frontier GPT-5 variant for cost-sensitive, low-latency, high-volume workloads. 400K context window, 272K max input tokens, 128K max output tokens, text + image input, text output, May 2024 knowledge cutoff. The default snapshot behind the alias is gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07.

Capabilities

struck through = not supported
Input 2/5
Text ✓ Image ✓ Audio Video PDF
Output 1/5
Text ✓ Image Audio Video Embedding
Features 3/9
Prompt caching ✓ Reasoning Coding Fast inference Long context ✓ Open weights Multimodal ✓ Web search Realtime

Benchmark performance

accuracy % · higher is better
Percentile vs all tracked models 31.3th3 independent measurements
Percentile per $/Mtok 45.4

We hold no per-benchmark accuracy scores for this model yet, so it has no accuracy average. That is a gap in our coverage, not a sign the model is untested — independent evaluators often publish a composite index for a new model long before releasing its per-benchmark numbers. The percentile above is its standing across the independent composites below.

Independent composite scores
  • AA Intelligence Index: 25.8 (Artificial Analysis composite across reasoning, knowledge and coding evals)
  • AA Agentic Index: 19.6 (Tool use, planning, autonomy)
  • AA-Omniscience Index: -17.3 (−100–100)
How it stacks up
  • Ranks #109 of 170 comparably-measured models by percentile score, across 3 independent measurements
  • Ranks #58 of 170 comparably-tested models by normalized performance per dollar

Source: Artificial Analysis · updated Aug 25, 2026 · See full rankings →

Specifications

Provider
OpenAI
Context window
400K tokens
Modality
text, image
Parameters
Proprietary
Open source
No — proprietary
Released
Aug 7, 2025
Status
Current
Last updated
Aug 25, 2026
Tags
mid-tiermultimodal

Availability verified: Aug 25, 2026 — listed on OpenAI's own page

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