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GPT-5 Mini
openai·openai/gpt-5-mini·BETA·Closed·gpt-mini series
Small GPT-5 for responsive agents, coding help, and everyday automation
At a glance
Official price$0.25 / $2.00 per 1M
Cache read $0.025 · OpenAI
Lowest paid$0.04 / $0.29
QiHang Gateway · 7× spread
Context400,000
⚠ Providers report 200,000–400,000; the table below is authoritative
Output limit128,000
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool use✓ Structured outputTemperature✓ Attachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
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Knowledge cutoff2024-05-30
Released / updated2025-08-07 / 2025-08-07
Quality & performanceArtificial Analysis · Intelligence Index v4.1 · rep. tier medium
Intelligence31.6
Value308
Coding—
Agentic—
Output speed85 tok/s
TTFT12.91 s
Value formulaIQ 31.6 ÷ min blended $0.102 = 308
Reasoning tier → intelligence / speed (higher tier = stronger but slower)
minimalIQ 14.3 · 94 tok/s
highIQ 25.8 · 83 tok/s
mediumIQ 31.6 · 85 tok/s
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
Available at 31 providers29 with public prices
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QiHang | Gateway | $0.04 | $0.29 | — | — | 200,000 ⚠ | 64,000 | |
| Poe | Gateway | $0.22 | $1.80 | $0.022 | — | 400,000 | 128,000 | |
| Jiekou.AI | Gateway | $0.225 | $1.80 | — | — | 400,000 | 128,000 | |
| OrcaRouter | Gateway | $0.25 | $2.00 | $0.025 | — | 400,000 | 128,000 | |
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $0.25 | $2.00 | $0.025 | — | 400,000 | 128,000 | |
| Impossibl | Gateway | $0.25 | $2.00 | $0.025 | — | 400,000 | 128,000 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $0.25 | $2.00 | $0.025 | — | 400,000 | 128,000 | |
| Databricks databricks-gpt-5-mini | Cloud | $0.25 | $2.00 | $0.025 | — | 400,000 | 128,000 | |
| OpenAIOfficial | First-party | $0.25 | $2.00 | $0.025 | — | 400,000 | 128,000 | |
| Vivgrid | Gateway | $0.25 | $2.00 | $0.03 | — | 272,000 ⚠ | 128,000 | |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
Your usage cost
1QiHang$22.50
2Poe$110.24
3OrcaRouter$123.00
4NanoGPT$123.00
5Impossibl$123.00
6OpenRouter$123.00
8OpenAI · Official$123.00
Switch to QiHang to save $100.50/mo (82%)
Note: this is a gateway; verify availability and rate limits yourself.
Benchmark
No upstream benchmark data for this model. For quality, see the Artificial Analysis intelligence score above.
Reasoning control
effort = minimaleffort = loweffort = mediumeffort = higheffort = noneeffort = xhigheffort = max
4 / 31 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input listOutput listMin blended