GPT-5 Mini
openai/gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07Small, quick GPT-5
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| Rate | Provider baseline | Free plan · 5% fee | Paid plan · 4% fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $0.25 | $0.2625 | $0.26 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $2 | $2.1 | $2.08 |
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Overview
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. GPT-5 Mini is the successor to OpenAI's o4-mini model.
Strengths
- Great price for the quality
Best for
Benchmarks
Artificial Analysis indices independent, 0–100
Design Arena head-to-head, human-voted
| Category | Elo | Win rate | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASCII art | 1143 | 44.5% | #47 |
| SVG | 1119 | 45.8% | #55 |
| Game dev | 1154 | 46.5% | #71 |
| Data viz | 1147 | 43.7% | #76 |
| UI components | 1125 | 41.9% | #77 |
| Websites | 1138 | 44.3% | #83 |
| Code | 1131 | 43.5% | #84 |
| 3D scenes | 1066 | 36.9% | #92 |
Capabilities
Reasoning is always on with effort levels high · medium · low · minimal (default medium).
Sampling controls: max_tokens. Defaults: top_k null, top_p null, temperature null, presence_penalty null, frequency_penalty null, repetition_penalty null.
Requests pass through the provider’s content moderation.
Pricing on Gizmo
These are provider baseline rates before Gizmo’s 5% Free-plan or 4% paid-plan fee. Your included usage covers charges first; overage uses prepaid credits. See the fee-inclusive comparison above.
Provider baseline rates
- Input
- $0.25 / 1M
- Cached input
- $0.025 / 1M
- Output
- $2 / 1M
- Web search
- $0.01 / call
Examples before the platform fee
- Typical chat turn
- $0.0015 2k in · 500 out
- $1 of input
- ≈ 4M tokens
- $1 of output
- ≈ 500k tokens
- Full context, once
- $0.10
Providers and pricing
One way to run GPT-5 Mini on Gizmo.
| Provider | Route | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context | Uptime 24h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAILowest price | Direct | $0.25 | $2.00 | 400k | 100% |
Rates are each provider’s, per million tokens, before Gizmo’s 5% (Free) or 4% (paid) fee. “Cheapest” routing starts at the top of this list; “Fastest” starts with the model’s maker.
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