OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini
Released Aug 7, 2025Try it on:
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
#63
Across all subsets · overall
Total arena votes
206,209
Across 38 (subset, category) entries
Providers on OR
3
Azure + others
First seen
2026-05-08
26 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
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 | 99.97% | - | - | - |
| OpenAI | openai | 400K | $0.250 | $2.00 | 99.76% | - | - | ✓ |
| Azure | azure/swedencentral | 400K | $0.250 | $2.00 | - | - | - | - |
Per-category ranks
Text
| Rank | Category | Variant | Trend | Elo | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #74 | Japanese | high | 1369 | 404 | |
| #99 | German | high | 1389 | 554 | |
| #102 | Math | high | 1406 | 1,460 | |
| #111 | Industry Mathematical | high | 1409 | 1,283 | |
| #118 | French | high | 1403 | 368 | |
| #121 | Expert | high | 1403 | 1,143 | |
| #122 | Korean | high | 1324 | 639 | |
| #124 | Overall | high | 1390 | 27,039 | |
| #127 | Exclude Ties | high | 1366 | 19,693 | |
| #127 | Spanish | high | 1374 | 741 | |
| #129 | Chinese | high | 1409 | 1,343 | |
| #130 | Industry Entertainment And Sports And Media | high | 1349 | 4,862 | |
| #131 | English | high | 1398 | 12,748 | |
| #131 | Hard Prompts | high | 1403 | 12,811 | |
| #131 | Industry Legal And Government | high | 1393 | 1,710 | |
| #131 | Russian | high | 1374 | 1,398 | |
| #132 | Industry Medicine And Healthcare | high | 1401 | 1,427 | |
| #132 | Instruction Following | high | 1374 | 6,917 | |
| #133 | Industry Business And Management And Financial Operations | high | 1379 | 4,843 | |
| #134 | Coding | high | 1430 | 5,502 | |
| #136 | Hard Prompts English | high | 1410 | 6,487 | |
| #136 | Industry Software And It Services | high | 1415 | 9,028 | |
| #138 | Industry Life And Physical And Social Science | high | 1396 | 4,212 | |
| #142 | Multi Turn | high | 1372 | 4,471 | |
| #145 | Industry Writing And Literature And Language | high | 1353 | 6,135 | |
| #151 | Longer Query | high | 1369 | 5,775 | |
| #157 | Creative Writing | high | 1326 | 3,561 |
Vision
| Rank | Category | Variant | Trend | Elo | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #16 | Entity Recognition | high | 1206 | 283 | |
| #21 | Captioning | high | 1165 | 302 | |
| #40 | Humor | high | 1194 | 1,077 | |
| #51 | Homework | high | 1233 | 1,015 | |
| #52 | Creative Writing Vision | high | 1195 | 1,008 | |
| #53 | Diagram | high | 1215 | 1,986 | |
| #57 | Ocr | high | 1198 | 8,180 | |
| #58 | Chinese | high | 1175 | 1,011 | |
| #58 | Creative Writing | high | 1164 | 1,008 | |
| #59 | English | high | 1193 | 14,144 | |
| #63 | Overall | high | 1182 | 29,641 |