GPT-5 Mini
Provider：OpenAI
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....
Key specs
- Context：400K
- Max output：128K
- Tokenizer：GPT
- Released：2025-08-07
Token pricing
- Input price：$0.250 / 1M tokens
- Output price：$2.00 / 1M tokens
- Cache read：$0.025 / 1M tokens
- Blended price：$0.688 / 1M tokens
Modalities
Text, Image, File
Use Cases
- Deep Reasoning & Analysis：Process long legal docs, academic papers, financial reports; multi-hop reasoning and evidence-chain tracing across huge contexts.（≈ $0.016/call）
- Vision Understanding & Generation：Recognize data trends in charts, OCR scanned docs, analyze photos and produce structured reports.（≈ $0.012/call）
- Content Moderation：Auto-detect violations, hate speech, NSFW content; custom rule sets and score thresholds.
When to pick this model
Signals derived from public pricing and spec fields — not a benchmark. Validate with official docs and your own eval.
- Low input price: cost-effective for tasks that consume large context (RAG, long-doc analysis).
- Long max output (>=30K tokens): strong fit for deep report / essay / document-drafting workflows.
- Multimodal (text+image): fit for image captioning, OCR, chart QA, vision-grounded reasoning.
- File / PDF input support: fit for document parsing, contract review, RAG over private data.
FAQ
- What is the token pricing of GPT-5 Mini? Input price $0.250 / 1M tokens, output price $2.00 / 1M tokens, blended about $0.688 / 1M tokens. Refer to OpenAI’s official page for the exact rate.
- What context window does GPT-5 Mini support? Context window is 400K, max output about 128K, suitable for long documents, multi-turn chat and complex reasoning.
- What scenarios is GPT-5 Mini best for? Based on its capability and pricing, GPT-5 Mini fits best: Deep Reasoning & Analysis, Vision Understanding & Generation, Content Moderation. See the Use Cases section for details and cost estimates.
- What input/output modalities does GPT-5 Mini support? Supports Text, Image, File modality.
- Is GPT-5 Mini a free model? GPT-5 Mini is billed per token, not a free model.
- Which provider offers GPT-5 Mini? GPT-5 Mini is offered by OpenAI.
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