GPT-5 Mini
OpenAI · GPT-5 · context window 128,000 tokens.
Pricing (per 1M tokens)
Specifications
Intelligence & value
MeasuredWorth it? Qwen3.5 Flash matches or beats GPT-5 Mini on the overall Arena and costs about $18.70/month versus $137.50/month at 100,000 calls — roughly $118.80/month cheaper.
Intelligence scores are community Arena ratings from LMArena / arena.ai, used under CC BY 4.0. Snapshot last refreshed 27 August 2026. Scores are a relative signal, not an absolute measure of capability. A Measured score was voted on directly; an Estimated score is inherited from an identical base model (a regional/creator-prefixed hosting duplicate). See our methodology.
Where else you can run GPT-5 Mini
The same model is resold by 30 providers we track. The typical one charges 6.7× what the cheapest does — $0.6880 against $0.1030 per 1M tokens, blended 3:1. Routing the same workload to a different host is often a bigger saving than switching model.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Blended |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qihang AI | $0.0400 | $0.2900 | $0.1030 |
| Poe | $0.2200 | $1.80 | $0.6150 |
| Jiekou | $0.2250 | $1.80 | $0.6190 |
| 302.AI | $0.2500 | $2.00 | $0.6880 |
| Abacus | $0.2500 | $2.00 | $0.6880 |
| Azure | $0.2500 | $2.00 | $0.6880 |
| Azure Cognitive Services | $0.2500 | $2.00 | $0.6880 |
| Cloudflare AI Gateway | $0.2500 | $2.00 | $0.6880 |
| Edenai | $0.2500 | $2.00 | $0.6880 |
| Fastrouter | $0.2500 | $2.00 | $0.6880 |
Showing the 10 cheapest of 30. The full list for every model is in the open endpoint dataset.
Third-party listings via models.dev, not rates we verify with each host the way we do first-party pricing. Treat them as a shortlist to check, not a quote — and confirm quantisation, context limits and rate limits before switching, since a cheaper host is not always serving the same thing.
Estimate cost with GPT-5 Mini
GPT-5 Mini is pre-selected below. Enter your token counts and volume to see the cost per request, per day and per month — then switch models to compare.
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- Input cost
- $0.000250
- Output cost
- $0.00100
- Per request
- $0.00125
- Per day
- $1.25
- Per month
- $37.50
Compare GPT-5 Mini with
Source: OpenAI official API pricing. Prices are re-checked daily against the provider’s official pricing; this rate was last changed on 27 August 2026. A recent date here just means the price is still current, not that it moved.