OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini
Released Aug 7, 2025text+image+file→text
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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....
Best overall rank
#73
▼ 2 vs 7d ago
Total arena votes
221,072
Across 40 (subset, category) entries
Providers on OR
4
Azure + others
First seen
2026-05-08
72 days tracked
Trend
Pricing
Per token
- Input (per 1M)
- $0.250
- Output (per 1M)
- $2.00
- Cache Read (per 1M)
- $0.025
Per unit
- Web search
- $0.010/call
Capabilities
Modality
text+image+file->textContext
400K tokens
Tokenizer
GPT
Knowledge cutoff
2024-05-31
Max output
128K tokens
Moderation
Moderated
Supported parameters
include_reasoning
max_completion_tokens
max_tokens
reasoning
reasoning_effort
response_format
seed
structured_outputs
tool_choice
tools
Providers
| Provider | Region / Tag | Context | Input/M | Output/M | Uptime 1d | Latency | Quant | Cache |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Azure | azure | 400K | $0.250 | $2.00 | 97.25% | - | - | - |
| OpenAI | openai | 400K | $0.250 | $2.00 | 93.18% | - | - | ✓ |
| OpenAI | openai/flex | 400K | $0.125 | $1.00 | 93.18% | - | - | ✓ |
| Azure | azure/swedencentral | 400K | $0.275 | $2.20 | 91.67% | - | - | - |
Per-category ranks
Text
| Rank | Category | Variant | Trend | Elo | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #87 | Japanese | high | 1369 | 404 | |
| #105 | Polish | high | 1398 | 1,511 | |
| #107 | German | high | 1389 | 554 | |
| #119 | Math | high | 1405 | 1,459 | |
| #126 | Industry Mathematical | high | 1409 | 1,282 | |
| #131 | French | high | 1400 | 368 | |
| #133 | Non English | high | 1379 | 14,224 | |
| #135 | Expert | high | 1403 | 1,146 | |
| #137 | Korean | high | 1320 | 638 | |
| #140 | Overall | high | 1390 | 27,007 | |
| #140 | Spanish | high | 1373 | 742 | |
| #143 | Chinese | high | 1408 | 1,343 | |
| #143 | Exclude Ties | high | 1366 | 19,668 | |
| #146 | Industry Entertainment And Sports And Media | high | 1350 | 4,857 | |
| #146 | Industry Legal And Government | high | 1395 | 1,707 | |
| #147 | Industry Medicine And Healthcare | high | 1402 | 1,421 | |
| #148 | Hard Prompts | high | 1403 | 12,803 | |
| #148 | Instruction Following | high | 1374 | 6,916 | |
| #148 | Russian | high | 1373 | 1,397 | |
| #149 | English | high | 1398 | 12,727 | |
| #149 | Industry Business And Management And Financial Operations | high | 1379 | 4,836 | |
| #150 | Coding | high | 1431 | 5,496 | |
| #152 | Hard Prompts English | high | 1410 | 6,477 | |
| #152 | Industry Software And It Services | high | 1416 | 9,025 | |
| #153 | Industry Life And Physical And Social Science | high | 1396 | 4,206 | |
| #157 | Multi Turn | high | 1373 | 4,466 | |
| #161 | Industry Writing And Literature And Language | high | 1353 | 6,125 | |
| #168 | Longer Query | high | 1370 | 5,765 | |
| #173 | Creative Writing | high | 1325 | 3,555 |
Vision
| Rank | Category | Variant | Trend | Elo | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #21 | Entity Recognition | high | 1207 | 281 | |
| #22 | Captioning | high | 1169 | 295 | |
| #52 | Humor | high | 1183 | 1,066 | |
| #58 | Creative Writing Vision | high | 1194 | 1,001 | |
| #59 | Homework | high | 1232 | 998 | |
| #64 | Diagram | high | 1211 | 1,967 | |
| #66 | Chinese | high | 1176 | 1,005 | |
| #66 | Creative Writing | high | 1157 | 1,001 | |
| #67 | Ocr | high | 1195 | 8,128 | |
| #69 | English | high | 1191 | 13,952 | |
| #73 | Overall | high | 1181 | 29,253 |