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OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini vs OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano ·OpenAI vs OpenAI

OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini vs OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano — head-to-head comparison

OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini profile OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano profile All comparisons
OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini — OpenAI
Quality
#36 of 65
66based on 6 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#78 of 353
105.5
Output tokens per second
Price
#233 of 525
$0.69
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.25 · Out $2.00
Cache hit price
#106 of 412
$0.025
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#257 of 574
400k
tokens (~600 pages)
OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano — OpenAI
Quality
#33 of 65
67based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#88 of 353
99.5
Output tokens per second
Price
#74 of 525
$0.14
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.05 · Out $0.40
Cache hit price
#31 of 412
$0.005
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#259 of 574
400k
tokens (~600 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini scores 66 and OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano scores 67 — a 1-point lead for OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano. They share 4 published evaluations, with OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini ahead on 4 and OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano ahead on 0.

Blended pricing is $0.69 per 1M tokens for OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini and $0.14 for OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano — OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano is about 5.0× cheaper.

Throughput is 106 tokens per second for OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini and 100 for OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano, with time to first token at 4.7s and 2.8s. OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini accepts 400k tokens of context against 400k.

OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini is proprietary; OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano is proprietary. 2 tracked hosts serve one or both, and 2 serve both.

Generated from tracked data on 24 Oct 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricOpenAI: GPT-5 MiniOpenAI: GPT-5 Nano
Known Good Index 66 based on 6 of 7 evaluations 67 based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $0.69 $0.14
Output tok/s 106 100
Context window 400k 400k
Providers 2 2
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

MetricOpenAI: GPT-5 MiniOpenAI: GPT-5 Nano
Known Good Index 66 67
Coding Index 51 —
Mathematics Index 93 89
Reasoning Index 54 —
Openness Index 5 5
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini · marker = OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond75 / 69
Mock AIME 2024–2587 / 81
MATH Level 598 / 95
Terminal-Bench35 / 22

Right-hand figures read OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini / OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano. OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini leads on 4 of 4, OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano on 0.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

MetricOpenAI: GPT-5 MiniOpenAI: GPT-5 Nano
Text Arena 1,373 1,320
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,390 1,338
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

MetricOpenAI: GPT-5 MiniOpenAI: GPT-5 Nano
Input $/1M $0.25 $0.05
Output $/1M $2.00 $0.40
Blended $/1M $0.69 $0.14
Cache read $/1M $0.025 $0.005
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

MetricOpenAI: GPT-5 MiniOpenAI: GPT-5 Nano
Context window 400k 400k
Max output tokens 128k 128k
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Speed & Latency

Mean throughput and time to first token across hosting providers, over successful measurements from the last 48 hours

Throughput and latency

Means across all tracked providers over successful measurements from the last 48 hours, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricOpenAI: GPT-5 MiniOpenAI: GPT-5 Nano
Output tokens/s 106 100
Time to first token 4.7s 2.8s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

2 hosts · 2 serve both
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini blendedOpenAI: GPT-5 Mini tok/s OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano blendedOpenAI: GPT-5 Nano tok/s
Azure · first party $0.69 118 $0.14 106
OpenAI · first party $0.34 114 $0.07 123

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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Sources for this page
Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Elo — Arena Full attribution →