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GPT-5 Mini

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GPT-5 Mini is OpenAI's cost-effective GPT-5 variant, tuned for balanced everyday performance at a fraction of the flagship price ($0.25/M input, $2/M output). It supports vision, audio input, tool use (function calling), and prompt caching, covering most general-purpose workloads. Context: 256K tokens, output: 32K. Accessible via the OpenAI-compatible protocol.

Context Window
256K
Max Output Tokens
33K
Released
2025-08-07
Capabilities
VisionFunction CallingPrompt CachingAudio Input
Available Providers
AzureAzure
Supported Protocols
OpenAIopenai

Providers

AzureAzure
-20%
Input Tokens
$0.2/M
$0.25/M
Output Tokens
$1.6/M
$2/M
Cache Read
$0.024/M
$0.03/M
Output Image
$32/M
Web Search
$0.035/R
Protocols
OpenAIopenai/v1/chat/completions/v1/responses

Code Examples

from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.ofox.ai/v1",
api_key="YOUR_OFOX_API_KEY",
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="openai/gpt-5-mini",
messages=[
{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Benchmarks

LMArenaEvaluated as gpt-5-mini-high

GPT-5 Mini scores 1390 in the Overall category of the LMArena text leaderboard (style control), ranking #138 of 374 models based on 27,006 human preference votes (updated 2026-07-12).

Benchmark scores for gpt-5-mini-high on LMArena
CategoryArena Score95% CIRankVotes
Overall139013851395#138 of 37427,006
Hard Prompts140313971409#146 of 37412,804
Coding143014221439#148 of 3695,495
Math140513901421#116 of 3621,458
Creative Writing132513151336#171 of 3723,557
Instruction Following137413671382#146 of 3746,920
Chinese140813911425#141 of 3441,343

Source: LMArena · CC BY 4.0 · Updated 2026-07-12 · Methodology · Ranks compare models within each category of the LMArena text leaderboard (style control). Scores come from third-party human preference evaluations, not from OFOX.

Frequently Asked Questions

GPT-5 Mini on Ofox.ai costs $0.25/M per million input tokens and $2/M per million output tokens. Pay-as-you-go, no monthly fees.