openai / text-generation API-only released 2025-08-07

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....

Input / 1M
$0.25
Output / 1M
$2.00
Context
400K
AA Intelligence
20.6
Closed weights — available only as a hosted API text + image + file → text Knowledge cutoff May 2024 View on OpenRouter ↗

Pricing

via OpenRouter · USD per 1M tokens · synced 2026-10-24
$0.25
input / 1M
$2.00
output / 1M
$0.025
cached input / 1M
$2.25
1M in + 1M out
:batch variant $0.13 in · $1.00 out
Context window
400,000 tokens
Max output
128,000 tokens
Providers
2
Cheapest provider
OpenAI · $0.13 / $1.00
Best throughput
—
AA Intelligence / Coding / Agentic
20.6 / — / —
✓ Tool calling ✓ Reasoning ✓ Structured outputs ✓ Image input ✓ File input ✗ Audio input ✓ Prompt caching

Price history

tracking started — chart appears after 7 days of snapshots (6 recorded)
Current: $0.25 input · $2.00 output per 1M tokens

Benchmarks

Third-party indices as published through OpenRouter — Artificial Analysis and Design Arena. Not measured by us.

AA Intelligence Index
20.6
AA Coding Index
—
AA Agentic Index
—
Design Arena
CategoryEloWin %Rank
3d 1037 36.9% #106
asciiart 1125 44.8% #53
codecategories 1115 43.5% #99
dataviz 1131 43.7% #90
gamedev 1130 46.5% #89
svg 1091 45.8% #64
uicomponent 1103 41.9% #92
website 1125 44.3% #101

Providers

2 providers · per 1M tokens · last 30 min metrics
ProviderQuantContextInputOutputUptimeTok/s
OpenAI unknown 400K $0.13 $1.00 100% —
Azure unknown 400K $0.25 $2.00 100% —
OpenAI unknown 400K $0.25 $2.00 100% —
Azure unknown 400K $0.28 $2.20 — —
Provider data from OpenRouter's endpoint listing, refreshed daily.

Specifications

Organisation
openai
Released on OpenRouter
2025-08-07
Context window
400,000 tokens
Max output
128,000 tokens
Input
text, image, file
Output
text
Knowledge cutoff
May 2024
Tokenizer
GPT
Moderated by provider
Yes
OpenRouter id
openai/gpt-5-mini
Compare with
Prices, context and providers from the public OpenRouter API, snapshotted daily; benchmark indices from Artificial Analysis. See /methodology.