OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini

Released Aug 7, 2025

openai/gpt-5-mini

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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

#71

▼ 2 vs 7d ago

Total arena votes

221,738

Across 40 (subset, category) entries

Providers on OR

Azure + others

First seen

2026-05-08

61 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->text

Context

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	97.83%	-	-	-
OpenAI	`openai`	400K	$0.250	$2.00	90.07%	-	-	✓
Azure	`azure/swedencentral`	400K	$0.250	$2.00	-	-	-	-

Per-category ranks

Text

Rank	Category	Variant	Elo	Votes
#85	Japanese	high	1368	404
#100	Polish	high	1398	1,511
#104	German	high	1389	554
#113	Math	high	1405	1,458
#122	Industry Mathematical	high	1408	1,282
#126	French	high	1402	367
#126	Non English	high	1379	14,224
#129	Expert	high	1403	1,146
#132	Korean	high	1321	636
#133	Overall	high	1390	27,016
#136	Exclude Ties	high	1366	19,672
#137	Chinese	high	1408	1,342
#137	Spanish	high	1373	743
#139	Industry Entertainment And Sports And Media	high	1349	4,860
#140	Russian	high	1373	1,397
#141	Hard Prompts	high	1403	12,803
#141	Industry Medicine And Healthcare	high	1402	1,421
#141	Instruction Following	high	1374	6,918
#142	English	high	1398	12,736
#142	Industry Business And Management And Financial Operations	high	1379	4,835
#142	Industry Legal And Government	high	1394	1,707
#143	Coding	high	1430	5,498
#145	Hard Prompts English	high	1410	6,482
#145	Industry Software And It Services	high	1416	9,024
#146	Industry Life And Physical And Social Science	high	1396	4,213
#151	Multi Turn	high	1372	4,470
#154	Industry Writing And Literature And Language	high	1353	6,131
#159	Longer Query	high	1370	5,769
#166	Creative Writing	high	1325	3,559

Vision

Rank	Category	Variant	Elo	Votes
#20	Entity Recognition	high	1207	283
#22	Captioning	high	1165	302
#49	Humor	high	1184	1,076
#57	Homework	high	1234	1,010
#58	Creative Writing Vision	high	1194	1,007
#63	Chinese	high	1175	1,011
#63	Diagram	high	1210	1,983
#64	Ocr	high	1196	8,176
#66	Creative Writing	high	1156	1,007
#66	English	high	1191	14,113
#71	Overall	high	1181	29,592

Provider

Region / Tag

Context

Input/M

Output/M

Uptime 1d

Latency

Quant

Cache

Azure

azure

400K

$0.250

$2.00

97.83%

OpenAI

openai

400K

$0.250

$2.00

90.07%

✓

Azure

azure/swedencentral

400K

$0.250

$2.00

Per-category ranks

Text

Rank	Category	Variant	Elo	Votes
#85	Japanese	high	1368	404
#100	Polish	high	1398	1,511
#104	German	high	1389	554
#113	Math	high	1405	1,458
#122	Industry Mathematical	high	1408	1,282
#126	French	high	1402	367
#126	Non English	high	1379	14,224
#129	Expert	high	1403	1,146
#132	Korean	high	1321	636
#133	Overall	high	1390	27,016
#136	Exclude Ties	high	1366	19,672
#137	Chinese	high	1408	1,342
#137	Spanish	high	1373	743
#139	Industry Entertainment And Sports And Media	high	1349	4,860
#140	Russian	high	1373	1,397
#141	Hard Prompts	high	1403	12,803
#141	Industry Medicine And Healthcare	high	1402	1,421
#141	Instruction Following	high	1374	6,918
#142	English	high	1398	12,736
#142	Industry Business And Management And Financial Operations	high	1379	4,835
#142	Industry Legal And Government	high	1394	1,707
#143	Coding	high	1430	5,498
#145	Hard Prompts English	high	1410	6,482
#145	Industry Software And It Services	high	1416	9,024
#146	Industry Life And Physical And Social Science	high	1396	4,213
#151	Multi Turn	high	1372	4,470
#154	Industry Writing And Literature And Language	high	1353	6,131
#159	Longer Query	high	1370	5,769
#166	Creative Writing	high	1325	3,559

Vision

Rank	Category	Variant	Elo	Votes
#20	Entity Recognition	high	1207	283
#22	Captioning	high	1165	302
#49	Humor	high	1184	1,076
#57	Homework	high	1234	1,010
#58	Creative Writing Vision	high	1194	1,007
#63	Chinese	high	1175	1,011
#63	Diagram	high	1210	1,983
#64	Ocr	high	1196	8,176
#66	Creative Writing	high	1156	1,007
#66	English	high	1191	14,113
#71	Overall	high	1181	29,592