GPT 5 Mini
openai/gpt-5-mini- OpenAI
- Family · GPT-5 Mini
- Released 7 Aug 2025
- Text · Image · File → Text
- Reasoning · adjustable
- Tools · JSON · Vision
Spec & list price
Context391K
Max output128K
Input / 1M$0.25
Output / 1M$2.008× input
Scores · standing
Intelligence20.6#136/489
Coding15.6#155/196
Usage
Tokens / day8.7B▼ 24% 7d
Usage rank#92
Requests / day915.2K
Tool calls / req0.09
Per request · 30 days
Avg input5.7K0.4× median
Avg output739about median
Cache hit41%0.6× median
Reasoning share69%1.2× median
Tool-call failures0.8%0.4× median
Consumption
Peak 25.3B 15 OctLow 5.5B 1 NovRank today #92
News & trends
7 mentions this week ▲ 75%this model · videos, posts, articles · 30 days
Trending · 14 days
- GPT-5.2 vs GPT-5 mini: the river-crossing riddle test #AI103 #shorts41 views
- Como Cortar 80% do Custo da IA? (GPT-5 vs GPT-5 Mini) ⚡ #curiosidades98 views
- ChatGPT's API cited reddit.com in 0 of 320 answers on gpt-4o-mini. First week on gpt-5-mini: 9 of 402 upvotes
- Instrument change: the ChatGPT column moved from gpt-4o-mini to gpt-5-mini on 21 Oct1 upvotes
News · latest from OpenAI
- GPT-6.1 Terra vs. Claude Opus 5.5: Cheaper and faster in three tests at maxthenewstack.io · 2 Nov
- Chinese labs now target OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra for distillationfork.zone · 1 Nov
- GPT-6.1 Terrasimonwillison.net · 31 Oct
- GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful moderyanmadden.net · 31 Oct
Benchmarks
bar = share of the top score · Benchmark data: Artificial AnalysisSpeed · median across 4 providers, latest day
Output speed#89/33495 tok/s1.4× faster than median
Fastest provider110 tok/sbest of 4 providers
First token#2862.85 s2.8× longer than median
#13 cheapest of 28 with a similar score
Value
Intelligence Index
Blended price per 1M tokens (log)
Family progress
Intelligence Index
- Family releases24.1
Technical details
- Reasoning
- on · medium
- Tokenizer
- GPT
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2024-05-31
- Moderation
- moderated
Reasoning effort
- high
- medium · default
- low
- minimal
Request parameters 11
- tools
- tool_choice
- response_format
- structured_outputs
- reasoning
- reasoning_effort
- include_reasoning
- max_tokens
- max_completion_tokens
- seed
+1 more
- verbosity
When to use
Best for
- Coding and math at moderate cost
- Reasoning with adjustable effort
- Image and file understanding
- Instruction-following assistants
- Offline bulk jobs via the batch variant
Think twice for
- Hardest frontier tasks
- Self-hosting (closed weights)
- Ultra-low-latency simple chat
Research papers
- Rivet: Utility-Preserving Context Control for Repository-Level Coding Agents26 Oct
- Who Is Sycophantic to Whom? Confident LLMs, Human Deference, and the Collapse of Trust Calibration22 Oct
- Not Where You Think: Protecting Location Privacy Against Reasoning-Based Geolocation21 Oct
- Benchmarking Large Language Models for Detecting Satirical Code-Mixed Sentences21 Oct
- Evo$^2$: Evolving the Evolver through Weight-Harness Co-Evolution9 Oct
- The Pushback Paradox: A Two-Probe Diagnostic for Language Model Compliance5 Oct
- Threat-Preserving Representation Sensitivity in Agent-Security Benchmarks2 Oct
- Structure-augmented LLMs for High-Level Synthesis Pragma Optimization29 Sep
Social
Most watched and discussed · 90 days
- Como Cortar 80% do Custo da IA? (GPT-5 vs GPT-5 Mini) ⚡ #curiosidadesInteligência A.i · 98 views · 27 Oct
- GPT-5.2 vs GPT-5 mini: the river-crossing riddle test #AI103 #shortsLoop Learning · 41 views · 30 Oct
- GPT-5 Mini: Por que modelos MENORES são o futuro da IA? #curiosidadesInteligência A.i · 40 views · 28 Oct
- Como economizar até 80% em Inteligência Artificial com o GPT-5 miniInteligência A.i · 31 views · 28 Oct
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