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GPT-5 Mini

GPT-5 Mini is a compact version of GPT-5, designed to handle lighter-weight reasoning tasks. It provides the same instruction-following and safety-tuning benefits as GPT-5, but with reduced latency and cost....

by OpenAI

Overview

Quick stats across all benchmark runs.

Score

57%

69 benchmarks

Avg Latency

24.2s

422 requests

Pricing

$0.25 in / $2.00 out

per 1M tokens

Context

400K

tokens

Alternatives

Models with similar or better quality but different tradeoffs

Same Quality, Cheaper

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ModelCost
Gemini 2.0 Flash-87%
DeepSeek V3.2-83%
DeepSeek V3 0324-77%
Mistral Large 3 2512-57%
Gemini 3 Flash Preview-45%

Same Quality, Faster

Models with similar or better performance but lower latency.

ModelLatency
Gemini 3 Flash Preview-77%
Gemini 2.0 Flash-76%
Gemini 2.5 Flash-72%
Claude Haiku 4.5-67%
GPT-5.1 Chat-53%

Same Cost, Better

Models at a similar price point with higher benchmark scores.

ModelScore
Gemini 3 Flash Preview+8%

Benchmark Performance

How this model performs across different benchmarks

BenchmarkScoreRank
Venture Capital Terms Benchmark
100%
1 / 21
Spatial Reasoning: Germany
95%
7 / 29
Character Frequency Bench
91%
11 / 29
Explain Like I'm 5
77%
15 / 47
Niederstetten Benchmark
60%
13 / 35
Money Boy Cultural Literacy Test
57%
22 / 107
German Memelord Bench
52%
6 / 29
Categorization Bench
46%
29 / 54

Price vs Performance

Compare cost efficiency across all models

Current model (baseline)
Other models (relative score)
Y-axis shows score difference from shared benchmarks. X-axis uses log scale.

Score Over Time

Performance trends across all benchmark runs

Benchmark Activity

Number of benchmark runs over time

Quickstart

View on OpenRouter

Get started with this model using OpenRouter

import { OpenRouter } from "@openrouter/sdk";

const openrouter = new OpenRouter({
  apiKey: "<OPENROUTER_API_KEY>"
});

const completion = await openrouter.chat.completions.create({
  model: "openai/gpt-5-mini",
  messages: [
    {
      role: "user",
      content: "Hello!"
    }
  ]
});

console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

Get your API key at openrouter.ai/keys

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GPT-5.3 Chat2.5s$7.8865%
GPT-5.4 Mini1.2s$2.6357%
GPT-5.41.8s$8.7549%
gpt-oss-20b13.6s$0.0941%
gpt-oss-120b28.7s$0.1134%
GPT-5 Nano33.8s$0.2230%
GPT-5.4 Nano—$0.73—
GPT-5.4 Pro—$105.00—
GPT-5.3-Codex2.7s$7.88—
GPT Audio—$6.25—
GPT Audio Mini—$1.50—
GPT-5.2-Codex21.7s$7.88—
GPT-5.2 Chat9.5s$7.88—
GPT-5.2 Pro47.7s$94.50—
GPT-5.1-Codex-Max25.2s$5.63—
GPT-5.130.5s$5.63—
GPT-5.1 Chat5.5s$5.63—
GPT-5.1-Codex16.6s$5.63—
GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini12.6s$1.13—
gpt-oss-safeguard-20b2.4s$0.19—
GPT-5 Image Mini31.8s$2.25—
GPT-5 Image49.2s$10.00—
o3 Deep Research362.7s$25.00—
o4 Mini Deep Research151.0s$5.00—
GPT-5 Pro332.1s$67.50—
GPT-5 Codex19.7s$5.63—
GPT-4o Audio—$6.25—
GPT-5 Chat5.9s$5.63—
GPT-558.6s$5.63—
o3 Pro122.5s$50.00—
o4 Mini High26.8s$2.75—
o319.0s$5.00—
o4 Mini18.2s$2.75—
GPT-4.120.7s$5.00—
GPT-4.1 Mini11.5s$1.00—
GPT-4.1 Nano4.5s$0.25—
o1-pro95.3s$375.00—
o3 Mini High13.8s$2.75—
o3 Mini16.0s$2.75—
o123.4s$37.50—
GPT-4o (2024-11-20)12.4s$6.25—
GPT-4o (2024-08-06)9.5s$6.25—
GPT-4o5.8s$12.00—
GPT-4o (2024-05-13)4.7s$10.00—
GPT-4o-mini Search Preview6.5s$0.38—
GPT-4o Search Preview11.2s$6.25—
GPT-4 Turbo26.5s$20.00—
GPT-4 Turbo Preview15.8s$20.00—
GPT-3.5 Turbo 16k4.0s$3.50—
GPT-412.1s$45.00—
Codex Mini—$3.75—
ChatGPT-4o7.4s$10.00—
GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)13.7s$1.50—
GPT-4 Turbo (older v1106)18.1s$20.00—
GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct4.4s$1.75—
GPT-4 (older v0314)16.8s$45.00—
GPT-3.5 Turbo3.8s$1.00—
GPT Chat Latest—$17.50—
GPT-5.4 Image 241.3s$11.50—
GPT-4o-mini11.0s$0.38—
GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)13.2s$0.38—