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GPT-5 Mini
OpenAI · small. Cheap chat at scale.
The published record
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- API identifier
gpt-5-mini- Context window
- 400KtokensSource
- Maximum output
- 128KtokensSource
- Input
- $0.25per 1M tokensSource
- Output
- $2.00per 1M tokensSource
- Cached input
- $0.025per 1M tokensSource
- Released
- August 7, 2025Source
- License
- Proprietary
Record verified July 30, 2026
What the record says
Official standard price is $0.25/$2.00 with $0.025 cached input. The OpenAI pricing table lists short-context batch at $0.125/$1.00; rechecked 2026-07-30. Release date is traced to snapshot id gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07. The checked model page publishes no SWE-bench or numeric throughput result, so formal benchmark fields remain empty.
What has moved
Entries in the change ledger that affect this model, newest first.
Released
GPT-5 Mini — $0.25/$2.00. Cached input $0.025. Source: openai.com/pricing
Which one to use
The rest of the family, with the two numbers that usually decide it. The current model is marked.
benchr's read
Worth it for
- Cheap chat at scale
- Simple extraction and routing
- High-volume classification
Look elsewhere if
- Production-quality code review
- Complex reasoning
- Long documents
Prices, limits, and identifiers above are provider facts. This section is benchr's judgement about them.
What benchr has written about it
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What is not on this page
Stated rather than filled in.
- No provider-published benchmark result is recorded for this model. benchr does not carry a figure across from a similar model or estimate one.
- No first-token or tokens-per-second figure is recorded. benchr has not measured it and the provider does not publish one.