This model was retired on 2027-02-09. The pricing below is the last-known rate, kept for migration reference.

GPT-5 MiniDeprecated

OpenAIReleasedAug 7, 2025KnowledgeMay 2024
VisionTool useReasoningPrompt cachingStructured outputWeb search
Context
272K
Max output
128K
Serving providers
5
Cheapest input
$0.25 /1M
Prices are on-demand list rates. Enterprise commitments (committed-use discounts, provisioned throughput, negotiated rates) can be materially lower.

Benchmarks

independent evaluations · source: Artificial Analysis
Speed & latency
Output speed
96 t/s
tokens / second
Time to first token
93.23s
latency
Headline indices
Intelligence Index
31.6
of 100
Coding Index
15.6
of 100
Agentic Index
19.6
of 100
Individual benchmarks · click a row for effort variants
BenchmarkBest scoreEffortCost / task
CritPt1%medium
GDPval935.1default
GPQA Diamond83%default
Humanity's Last Exam21%default
IFBench75%default
LiveCodeBench84%default
Long-Context Reasoning71%default
MMLU-Pro84%default
MMMU-Pro70%default
Omniscience-11.0medium
Omniscience Accuracy0.2default
Omniscience Non Hallucination0.6medium
SciCode41%medium
TerminalBench Hard33%default
TerminalBench v2.14%default
τ-bench Banking15%default
τ²-bench71%medium

Pricing by serving provider

last-known · per 1M tokens · click a provider to expand
Serving providerInput /1MOutput /1MEndpoints
Databricks$0.25$2.001
Azure$0.25$2.001
OpenAI$0.25$2.001
Replicate$0.25$2.001
OpenRouter$0.25$2.001

Price history

input + output $/1M since we started tracking
Input Output
$0.000$0.500$1.00$1.50$2.00Aug 7Dec 2Jan 12Aug 26$2.00$0.250

Cost calculator

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$210
estimated / month

Model IDs

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databricks/databricks-gpt-5-miniazure/gpt-5-minigpt-5-minireplicate/openai/gpt-5-miniopenai/gpt-5-mini

Frequently asked questions

GPT-5 Mini pricing, context and availability

Is GPT-5 Mini still available?

GPT-5 Mini was retired on 2027-02-09. The pricing on this page is the last-known rate, kept for migration reference.

How much did GPT-5 Mini cost?

GPT-5 Mini's last-known pricing, before it was retired on 2027-02-09, was $0.25 per 1M input tokens and $2.00 per 1M output tokens.

What was the context window of GPT-5 Mini?

GPT-5 Mini had a 272K token context window and could return up to 128K output tokens.

What could GPT-5 Mini do?

GPT-5 Mini supported image input (vision), tool use, reasoning, prompt caching, structured output and web search.

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