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Models · OpenAI · Out sinceReleased 7 Aug 2025

GPT-5 Mini

Available on OpenRouterOn OpenRouterAvailable nowGenerally availableClosed (can't be downloaded)Proprietary

GPT-5 Mini is made by OpenAI. We don't have enough test results yet to rank it. It's cheap to use.

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Writing & creativity
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Research & analysis
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Coding
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Price
Cheap$0.25 / $2
Price per 1M (blended)Blended / 1M
$0.69
MemoryContext
400K
Longest answerMax output
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Test resultsResults
5 (5 independent5 indep.)
Out sinceReleased
7 Aug 2025
Made byVendor
OpenAI
UnderstandsInputs
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Scores are out of 100 for each area, compared with every model we track; “#” is its rank. Context is how much text it can read at once (1M is roughly 700,000 words). Blended price mixes the cost of what you send and what it writes back.

Thinking levels

Reasoning settings

You can't choose how long this one thinks.

No adjustable reasoning setting listed.

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Using it through OpenRouter

On OpenRouter

OpenRouter is a service that gives access to many AI models in one place. This model is listed there as openai/gpt-5-mini.

Route it as openai/gpt-5-mini at $0.25 in / $2 out per 1M tokens, 400K context. Listed since 7 Aug 2025.

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LiveCodeBench86.6%Highreasoning_effort=highIndependent testIndependentVals.ai ↗1 Sep 2026—±0.979 stderr; $0.012/test
ProgramBench (avg test pass rate)16.0%DefaultIndependent testIndependentProgramBench ↗28 Sep 2026mini-SWE-agentavg behavioral-test pass rate ("Score" column); fully resolved 0.0%, almost (>=95% tests) 0.0%; avg cost $0.03/task
ProgramBench (fully resolved)0.0%DefaultIndependent testIndependentProgramBench ↗28 Sep 2026mini-SWE-agentstrict fully-resolved rate; almost (>=95% tests) 0.0%; avg cost $0.03/task
SWE-bench Multilingual39.7%DefaultIndependent testIndependentSWE-bench ↗13 Feb 2026mini-SWE-agent 2.0.0a0Official SWE-bench bash-only (mini-SWE-agent) run; data file https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SWE-bench/swe-bench.github.io/master/data/leaderboards.json; leaderboard not updated since 2026-02-26
SWE-bench Verified (bash-only, mini-SWE-agent)56.2%DefaultIndependent testIndependentSWE-bench ↗17 Feb 2026mini-SWE-agent 2.0.0Official SWE-bench bash-only (mini-SWE-agent) run; data file https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SWE-bench/swe-bench.github.io/master/data/leaderboards.json; leaderboard not updated since 2026-02-26