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    OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini

    Released Aug 7, 2025
    text+image+file→text
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    Ranked in:TextVision
    Try it on:
    OOpenRouter

    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
    221,069
    Across 40 (subset, category) entries
    Providers on OR
    4
    OpenAI + 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->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
    reasoning_effort
    response_format
    seed
    structured_outputs
    tool_choice
    tools

    Providers

    ProviderRegion / TagContextInput/MOutput/MUptime 1dLatencyQuantCache
    OpenAIopenai400K$0.250$2.0096.28%--✓
    OpenAIopenai/flex400K$0.125$1.0096.28%--✓
    Azureazure400K$0.250$2.0096.16%---
    Azureazure/swedencentral400K$0.275$2.20----

    Per-category ranks

    Text

    RankCategoryVariantTrendEloVotes
    #87Japanese
    high
    1369404
    #105Polish
    high
    13981,511
    #107German
    high
    1389554
    #119Math
    high
    14051,459
    #126Industry Mathematical
    high
    14091,282
    #131French
    high
    1400368
    #135Expert
    high
    14031,146
    #137Korean
    high
    1320638
    #139Non English
    high
    136414,221
    #140Overall
    high
    139027,007
    #140Spanish
    high
    1373742
    #143Chinese
    high
    14081,343
    #143Exclude Ties
    high
    136619,668
    #146Industry Entertainment And Sports And Media
    high
    13504,857
    #146Industry Legal And Government
    high
    13951,707
    #147Industry Medicine And Healthcare
    high
    14021,421
    #148Hard Prompts
    high
    140312,803
    #148Instruction Following
    high
    13746,916
    #148Russian
    high
    13731,397
    #149English
    high
    139812,727
    #149Industry Business And Management And Financial Operations
    high
    13794,836
    #150Coding
    high
    14315,496
    #152Hard Prompts English
    high
    14106,477
    #152Industry Software And It Services
    high
    14169,025
    #153Industry Life And Physical And Social Science
    high
    13964,206
    #157Multi Turn
    high
    13734,466
    #161Industry Writing And Literature And Language
    high
    13536,125
    #168Longer Query
    high
    13705,765
    #173Creative Writing
    high
    13253,555

    Vision

    RankCategoryVariantTrendEloVotes
    #21Entity Recognition
    high
    1207281
    #22Captioning
    high
    1169295
    #52Humor
    high
    11831,066
    #58Creative Writing Vision
    high
    11941,001
    #59Homework
    high
    1232998
    #64Diagram
    high
    12111,967
    #66Chinese
    high
    11761,005
    #66Creative Writing
    high
    11571,001
    #67Ocr
    high
    11958,128
    #69English
    high
    119113,952
    #73Overall
    high
    118129,253