The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
OpenAI ·Proprietary ·Released August 2025·Tracked since 25 Jul 2026

OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini — quality, speed & price analysis

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Quality
#34 of 61
60based on 5 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#47 of 316
99.9
Output tokens per second
Price
#162 of 340
$0.69
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.25 · Out $2.00
Cache hit price
#39 of 206
$0.025
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#104 of 345
400k
tokens (~600 pages)
Summary

OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini is in the third quarter of the models we track for quality, and inexpensive for its standing, with mid-range throughput. It accepts text, image, file input, outputs text, and supports a 400k-token context window.

It scores 60 on the Known Good Index, in line with the tracked average of 60, from 5 of the six component evaluations. Measured against the tracked average, its strongest result is MATH / AIME (87 against 53) and its weakest is Terminal-Bench (35 against 45).

Pricing is $0.25 per 1M input tokens (below the $2.18 average) and $2.00 per 1M output (below the $9.91 average). Cached input reads at $0.025 per 1M, a 90% discount on its input price. At 100 tokens per second it sits in the fastest quarter of the models we track.

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Technical specifications
ReasoningYes
Input modalitytext, image, file
Output modalitytext
Context window400,000 tokens
Max output128,000 tokens
WeightsProprietary
Knowledge cutoffMay 2024
Tool callingYes
Providers2 hosts · compare →
Highlights — where OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini sits
Quality

Known Good Index · Higher is better · Composite of six published evaluations

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gpt-5.5-pre-release
Gemini 3.1 Pro
Preview
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Claude Opus 4.7
Qwen3.7 Max
DeepSeek V4 Pro
Kimi K2.6
GLM 5.2
Qwen3.6 Max
Preview
GPT-5.4
Claude Opus 4.6
GLM 5.1
Gemini 3 Flash
Preview
GPT-5 Mini
Speed

Output tokens per second · Higher is better · OpenRouter endpoint telemetry

3,894
1,728
1,134
578
449
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100
Relace Apply 3
Morph V3 Large
Morph V3 Fast
Grok 4.20
Multi-Agent
gpt-oss-safeguard-20b
Nano Banana 2 Lite
(Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)
Mercury 2
Nano Banana
(Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)
Llama 3.2 3B
Instruct
gpt-oss-120b
Laguna XS 2.1
Nano Banana 2
(Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)
GPT-5 Mini
Price

Blended USD per 1M tokens · Lower is better · Published pricing via OpenRouter

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$0.02
$0.04
$0.04
$0.04
$0.06
$0.06
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$0.06
$0.06
$0.69
Ling-2.6-flash
Mistral Nemo
Granite 4.0 Micro
Llama 3 8B Lunaris
Nex-N2-Mini
Qwen2.5 7B
Instruct
gpt-oss-20b
Mistral Small 3
Llama 3.1 8B
Instruct
MythoMax 13B
Nova Micro 1.0
Granite 4.1 8B
Gemma 3 4B
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Quality

How OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini compares against every tracked model

Known Good IndexCoding IndexCapability indicesBy open weights
Known Good Index

Composite of GPQA Diamond, MATH / AIME, SWE-bench Verified, LiveBench, Humanity's Last Exam and Terminal-Bench, normalised 0–100. Scores are ingested from Epoch AI; we do not run these evaluations.

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Quality Breakdown

OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini on each evaluation feeding the index, against the tracked average

Evaluation scores

Bar = OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini · grey marker = average across tracked models · scores ingested from Epoch AI

GPQA Diamond75 / 63
MATH / AIME87 / 53
SWE-bench Verified65 / 71
Humanity's Last Exam19 / 17
Terminal-Bench35 / 45
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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena Elo

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena

OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini does not currently appear in any arena we ingest.

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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

BlendedInput vs outputCache discountQuality per dollar
Blended Price

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

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$0.01
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$0.04
$0.04
$0.04
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$0.69
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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 tokens accepted

Context windowMax output tokens
Context Window

Maximum input context from provider metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

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2.00M
2.00M
2.00M
2.00M
2.00M
1.31M
1.05M
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1.05M
1.05M
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1.05M
400k
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Speed

Median output throughput across hosting providers

Output speedBy provider
Output Speed

Median output tokens per second across all tracked providers. Derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry. Higher is better.

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3,894
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1,134
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100
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Latency

Time to first token, median across providers

Time to first tokenEnd-to-end response
Latency (TTFT)

Seconds to first streamed chunk, median across tracked providers. Derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry. Lower is better.

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Providers

Hosts serving OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini, with their own price and speed

2 providers
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ProviderInput $/MOutput $/M BlendedSpeedTTFTContext
OpenAI · first party $0.12 $1.00 $0.34 142 4.1s 400k
Azure · first party $0.25 $2.00 $0.69 78 1.7s 400k

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. Speed is output tokens per second; TTFT is time to first token.

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History

How price and quality have moved since we began tracking this model

Quality & price over time

Since 25 Jul 2026

Known Good Index 60 · based on 5 of 6 evaluations
Blended price $0.69 per 1M · observed 25 Jul 2026
Output speed 100 tok/s · observed 25 Jul 2026
Time to first token 3.3s

No recorded changes for this model since tracking began.

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Comparisons

Head-to-head pages pairing OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini with other tracked models

OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini vs DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini vs OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini vs claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini vs gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-01-21 OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini vs claude-opus-4-20250514 OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini vs OpenAI: o1 OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini vs OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini vs Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro All 49 comparisons →
Sources for this page
Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0) Full attribution →