GPT-5 Mini

openai

The sweet spot for everyday AI work? intelligent, fast, and affordable. This model excels at reasoning, conversation, and general tasks with an optimal balance of capability and cost. With 400K context, multimodal support, and thinking capabilities, it handles most professional work confidently. The GPT-5 architecture delivers reliable quality across coding, writing, analysis, and problem-solving. Our most popular choice for teams who need consistent, high-quality performance without premium pricing. An excellent general-purpose workhorse.

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Capabilities

Tool Use

PDF Input

Extended Thinking

Image Input

Image Generation

Example Use Cases

General openai task

Everyday coding or writing with openai

Balanced openai performance needed

Technical Specifications

Context Window

400,000 tokens

Max Output

128,000 tokens

Cache Miss Cost

$0.25 per 1M tokens

Non-Reasoning Cost

$2 per 1M tokens

Cache Read Cost

$0.03 per 1M tokens

Web Search Cost

$10 per 1K calls

Code Execution Cost

$30 per 1K calls

Image Generation Cost

$400 per 1K calls

⚠️ Legacy

Made legacy on

Reason

Outdated model

Recommended Replacement

GPT-5.2