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GPT-5 Mini — Benchmark Scores, Pricing & Performance Analysis

Chatbot Arena ELO
1300
Output Speed
180 tok/s
Input Cost
$0.25/1M
Output Cost
$2.0/1M
Context Window
400K
Max Output
128K
Knowledge Cutoff
May 2024
Accepts
text, image, file

GPT-5 Mini by OpenAI demonstrates strong general intelligence, fast output speed, competitive pricing. View detailed benchmark data including scores across coding, math, reasoning, speed, and cost metrics.

Specifications last checked against the provider on . Benchmark scores carry their own source, linked beside each number.

General Benchmarks

MMLU-Pro
74.0%36th of 66

Massive Multitask Language Understanding professional benchmark

HuggingFace Leaderboard
AA Intelligence Index
17.445th of 66

Artificial Analysis composite intelligence score across 10 sub-benchmarks

Artificial Analysis (via OpenRouter)
Chatbot Arena ELO
130045th of 74

Human preference ELO from blind head-to-head votes

LMSYS / HuggingFace

Coding Benchmarks

Website Arena ELO
113773rd of 108

Human preference ELO for building a working web page from a brief

Design Arena (via OpenRouter)
LiveCodeBench
55.0%23rd of 66

Live competitive programming benchmark

livecodebench.github.io
HumanEval+
85.0%35th of 66

Code generation correctness with extended tests

Papers
SWE-bench Verified
48.0%32nd of 67

Real-world software engineering task resolution

swebench.com
AA Coding Index
15.681st of 96

Artificial Analysis composite coding score

Artificial Analysis (via OpenRouter)
Design Arena ELO
112677th of 120

Human preference ELO for building things — websites, UI, games, charts, SVG

Design Arena (via OpenRouter)

Math Benchmarks

GSM8K
93.0%32nd of 66

Grade school math word problems

Papers
MATH
82.0%32nd of 66

Competition mathematics problem solving

Papers

Reasoning Benchmarks

τ²-Bench Airline
69.7%50th of 93

Multi-turn service agent making tool calls under strict policy constraints

OpenRouter (measured)
ARC-AGI
30.0%30th of 66

Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus for general intelligence

arcprize.org
GPQA Diamond
79.6%66th of 140

Graduate-level science Q&A by domain experts

Papers
AA Agentic Index
8.949th of 70

Artificial Analysis composite score for multi-step tool-using tasks

Artificial Analysis (via OpenRouter)

Speed Benchmarks

Time to First Token
150 ms11th of 92

Latency before first token arrives

Aggregated
Output Speed
180 tok/s11th of 94

Tokens generated per second

Aggregated

Cost Benchmarks

Output Cost
$2.0244th of 413

Cost per 1M output tokens

OpenRouter API
Cached Input Cost
$0.0318th of 136

Cost per 1M cached input tokens — the price that actually applies to a long agent conversation

OpenRouter API
Input Cost
$0.25188th of 413

Cost per 1M input tokens

OpenRouter API

Context Benchmarks

Context Length
400K90th of 451

Maximum context window size

OpenRouter API

Available from 33 providers

The same model costs different amounts depending on who serves it. You can bring your own key for 4 of these — connect it here.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MCached inContextYour key
QiHang$0.04$0.29—200K—
Poe$0.22$1.8$0.022400K—
Jiekou.AI$0.225$1.8—400K—
302.AI$0.25$2—400K—
Abacus$0.25$2$0.025400K—
Azure$0.25$2$0.03400KSupported
Azure Cognitive Services$0.25$2$0.03400K—
Cloudflare AI Gateway$0.25$2$0.025128K—
Databricks$0.25$2$0.025400K—
DevPass (LLM Gateway)$0.25$2$0.025400K—
Eden AI$0.25$2$0.025400K—
FastRouter$0.25$2$0.025400K—
GitHub Copilot$0.25$2$0.025264K—
Impossibl$0.25$2$0.025400K—
Kilo Gateway$0.25$2$0.025400K—
LLM Gateway$0.25$2$0.025400K—
Merge Gateway$0.25$2$0.025400K—
NanoGPT$0.25$2$0.025400K—
NEAR AI Cloud$0.25$2$0.025400K—
Neon$0.25$2$0.025400K—
Ofox$0.25$2$0.03256K—
OpenAI$0.25$2$0.025400KSupported
OpenRouter$0.25$2$0.025400KSupported
OrcaRouter$0.25$2$0.025400K—
Perplexity Agent$0.25$2$0.025400K—
Pioneer$0.25$2$0.025400K—
SAP AI Core$0.25$2$0.025400K—
Vercel AI Gateway$0.25$2$0.025400KSupported
Vivgrid$0.25$2$0.03272K—
Requesty$0.275$2.2$0.0275200K—
Cortecs$0.279$2.192$0.056400K—
AnyAPI———400K—
Snowflake Cortex———272K—

GPT-5 Mini — Benchmark Scores Overview

Scores normalized to percentage scale for visual comparison. ELO scores mapped to 0-100 range (1100-1500).

GPT-5 Mini — Frequently Asked Questions

How intelligent is GPT-5 Mini?

GPT-5 Mini scores 1300 on the Chatbot Arena ELO rating, making it a mid-tier AI model. This score is based on blind head-to-head human preference voting.

How much does GPT-5 Mini cost?

GPT-5 Mini costs $0.25 per 1M input tokens and $2.0 per 1M output tokens. This makes it one of the more affordable models.

How fast is GPT-5 Mini?

GPT-5 Mini generates output at 180 tokens per second, which is very fast compared to other models. The time to first token is 150 ms.

How good is GPT-5 Mini at coding?

GPT-5 Mini achieves 48.0% on SWE-bench Verified, demonstrating moderate real-world software engineering capability. This benchmark tests the model's ability to resolve actual GitHub issues.

How good is GPT-5 Mini at math and reasoning?

GPT-5 Mini scores 82.0% on the MATH benchmark (competition-level mathematics). It also achieves 79.6% on GPQA Diamond, a graduate-level science reasoning benchmark.

What is the context window of GPT-5 Mini?

GPT-5 Mini has a context window of 400K tokens. This determines how much text, conversation history, and code the model can process in a single request.

Who created GPT-5 Mini?

GPT-5 Mini was created by OpenAI. It is classified as a mid model in our catalogue.

Is GPT-5 Mini open source?

No, GPT-5 Mini is a proprietary model. It is available through OpenAI's API and compatible providers.