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GPT-5 MiniAPI
GPT-5 Mini is a compact version of GPT-5, designed to handle lighter-weight reasoning tasks.
Prices update automatically — checked daily against provider list prices.
- $0.69 per 1M tokens, assuming 3 input for 1 output the convention used by Artificial Analysis
- cheaper than 78% of the 192 commercial models tracked here
- 19 of 88 OpenAI models tracked here, from cheapest
Benchmarks & performance
Independent benchmark scores for GPT-5 Mini, measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better. Measurement mode: medium.
Models at this level cost $1.08 per 1M tokens (median of 20) — this one costs $0.69.
Cheaper and better on this index: GLM 5.3 Flash · Gemini 3.7 Flash (batch) · GPT-5.6 Luna and 26 more
About this model
GPT-5 Mini is a commercial AI model by OpenAI. The specifications below are tracked automatically: pricing is refreshed daily from public list prices, so the numbers on this page reflect the current cost of using the model through its API.
Frequently asked questions
What is GPT-5 Mini?
GPT-5 Mini is an AI language model from OpenAI. It is a proprietary model, available through an API. It scores 31.6 on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index.
Is GPT-5 Mini free?
GPT-5 Mini is not free: it costs $0.25 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens. Open-weight alternatives can be self-hosted at no per-token cost.
What is GPT-5 Mini good at?
Independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis give it GPQA 80.3%, MMLU-Pro 82.8%, Humanity's Last Exam 15.9%, Long Context Reasoning 69.7%, LiveCodeBench 69.2%, SciCode 41%, AIME 2025 85%, IFBench 71.2%, τ²-Bench 71.1%, Terminal-Bench Hard 28.8%. It is particularly used for mathematical reasoning.