GPT-5 Mini

openai/gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

OpenAI's GPT-5 Mini, released on 2025-01-01, accepts text, image, and file inputs and produces text output. It offers a context length of 400 000 tokens, supports tool use and reasoning, and is priced at $0.25 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens. The model’s weights are not publicly released.

  • tool use
  • structured outputs
  • reasoning

At a glance

provideropenai
releasedJan 1, 2025
context400K
input / M$0.25

Specifications

What the API gives you

Context window
400K tokens
Max output
128K tokens
Input price
$0.25 / 1M tokens
Output price
$2 / 1M tokens
Cache read
$0.025 / 1M tokens
Modalities
text, image, file → text
Knowledge cutoff
May 31, 2024
Released
Jan 1, 2025

Measured evidence

Public benchmark record

BFCL
55.5%2026-10-20
Design Arena Coding
1115 Elo2026-10-20
Design Arena UI
1107 Elo2026-10-20
Design Arena Website
1125 Elo2026-10-20
FACTS Grounding
58.3%2025-11-14evaluated 2025-11-14
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (Epoch AI)‡
18.2% ± 2.32026-08-27low effort, evaluated 2026-08-27
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (Epoch AI)‡
46.7% ± 32026-06-12high effort, evaluated 2026-06-12
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI)‡
71.7% ± 3.22026-08-07minimal effort, evaluated 2026-08-07
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI)‡
75% ± 2.32025-10-30high effort, evaluated 2025-10-30
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI)‡
71.7% ± 2.32025-08-07medium effort, evaluated 2025-08-07
LMArena Creative Writing
1325 Elo2026-10-15
LMArena Instruction Following
1357 Elo2026-10-15
LMArena Long Query
1355 Elo2026-10-15
LMArena Math
1377 Elo2026-10-15
LMArena Text
1390 Elo2026-10-15
LMArena Text Factuality
1394 Elo2026-10-15
LMArena Vision‡
1184 Elo2026-10-19high effort
LMArena Vision Diagrams‡
1213 Elo2026-10-19high effort
LMArena Vision OCR‡
1199 Elo2026-10-19high effort
OTIS Mock AIME (Epoch AI)‡
55.6% ± 7.52026-08-07minimal effort, evaluated 2026-08-07
OTIS Mock AIME (Epoch AI)‡
86.7% ± 4.32025-10-30high effort, evaluated 2025-10-30
OTIS Mock AIME (Epoch AI)‡
78.3% ± 4.82025-08-07medium effort, evaluated 2025-08-07
SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI)‡
21.6% ± 1.32026-08-10high effort, evaluated 2026-08-10
SWE-bench Verified (verified-500)‡
56.2%2026-10-20mini-SWE-agent 2.0.0, evaluated 2026-02-17

LMArena data licensed CC-BY-4.0. Aider (Apache-2.0) and SWE-bench (MIT) are open. Design Arena uses blind human preference. ‡ Submitted scaffold plus model result. Compare the harness and effort settings, not only the model name.

Task evidence

How broad is the support?

Each status is exact to this model version and the selected task. Official release claims remain provisional.

  • Best LLM for Grounded RAGEstablished evidence

    62% of intended weighted task evidence across 3 independent sources. 5 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for a General AssistantEstablished evidence

    59% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Competition MathEstablished evidence

    56% of intended weighted task evidence across 3 independent sources. 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Logic & Problem SolvingEstablished evidence

    55% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Math & ReasoningEstablished evidence

    52% of intended weighted task evidence across 4 independent sources. 7 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Document SummarizationEstablished evidence

    45% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 5 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

Show all 40 tasks
  • Best LLM for SummarizationEstablished evidence

    45% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 5 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for RAG & Long ContextEstablished evidence

    44% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 5 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for JSON & Schema OutputEstablished evidence

    29% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Structured Data ExtractionEstablished evidence

    29% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for CodingEstablished evidence

    22% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 7 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Business WritingProvisional evidence

    67% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Marketing CopyProvisional evidence

    67% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Chat & RoleplayProvisional evidence

    67% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Roleplay & CharacterProvisional evidence

    67% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Creative WritingProvisional evidence

    56% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for WritingProvisional evidence

    56% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Frontend & UIProvisional evidence

    55% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Coding or LMArena WebDev. 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Image UnderstandingProvisional evidence

    50% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Reasoning or VLMEvalKit tasks. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for OCR & DocumentsProvisional evidence

    45% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Document or Structured-output eval. 3 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Charts & DiagramsProvisional evidence

    45% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Document or Structured-output eval. 3 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Vision & DocumentsProvisional evidence

    40% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Document or Structured-output eval. 4 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Hermes AgentProvisional evidence

    40% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Agent or SWE-rebench. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for OpenHandsProvisional evidence

    40% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Agent or SWE-rebench. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for GooseProvisional evidence

    40% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Agent or SWE-rebench. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for OpenClawProvisional evidence

    40% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Agent or SWE-rebench. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Document ParsingProvisional evidence

    37% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Document or Structured-output eval. 3 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best Open-Weight LLM for Self-HostingProvisional evidence

    27% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Tool & Function CallingProvisional evidence

    25% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Agent or LMArena Agent Steerability. 6 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best Value LLMProvisional evidence

    25% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Massive ContextProvisional evidence

    20% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Document or LongBench v2. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for AI AgentsProvisional evidence

    18% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Agentic Coding or LMArena Agent. 9 of 9 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Fast SummariesProvisional evidence

    17% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Literary TranslationProvisional evidence

    17% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Everyday TranslationProvisional evidence

    17% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for TranslationProvisional evidence

    17% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Debugging & Code ReviewProvisional evidence

    11% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Aider Polyglot or LiveBench Coding. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Computer & Browser UseProvisional evidence

    11% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Agent or OSWorld Verified. 3 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best Cheap LLM for High VolumeProvisional evidence

    10% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Cheapest Capable LLMProvisional evidence

    10% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

Recommendation coverage

Where this model appears

Not currently included in a published recommendation. The task evidence panel above says exactly what is confirmed and what is still missing.

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