Model

GPT-5 Mini

Name: GPT-5 Mini
Brand: openai

Small GPT-5 for responsive agents, coding help, and everyday automation

35 providers · 37 listingsreleased Aug 7, 2025knowledge cutoff 2024-05-30closed weightsbeta

$0.04

lowest input /M · QiHang

$0.29

lowest output /M · QiHang

400K

context window

128K

max output

Compare providers (sorted by listed input price)

33 of 35 providers publish a price for GPT-5 Mini. The cheapest full-context option is Poe at $0.22/$1.8 per M — 10% below OpenAI's own price. QiHang lists lower but caps context at 200K.

			Cache read /M	Cache write /M		Capabilities
QiHang gpt-5-mini	$0.04	$0.29	—	—	200K	reasoningtoolsno structuredvision	Sep 15, 2025
Poe openai/gpt-5-mini	$0.22	$1.80	$0.022	—	400K	reasoningtoolsno structuredvision	Jun 25, 2025
Jiekou.AI gpt-5-mini	$0.225	$1.80	—	—	400K	reasoningtoolsstructuredvision	Jan 1, 2026
NanoGPT openai/gpt-5-mini	$0.25	$2	$0.025	—	400K	reasoningno toolsno structuredvision	Aug 7, 2025
DigitalOcean openai-gpt-5-mini	$0.25	$2	$0.025	—	400K	reasoningtoolsstructuredvision	Aug 7, 2025
Vivgrid gpt-5-mini	$0.25	$2	$0.03	—	272K	reasoningtoolsno structuredvision	Aug 7, 2025
Impossibl openai/gpt-5-mini	$0.25	$2	$0.025	—	400K	reasoningtoolsstructuredvision	Aug 7, 2025
LLM Gatewayvariant azure/gpt-5-mini	$0.25	$2	$0.025	—	400K	reasoningtoolsstructuredvision	Aug 7, 2025
LLM Gatewayvariant openai/gpt-5-mini	$0.25	$2	$0.025	—	400K	reasoningtoolsstructuredvision	Aug 7, 2025
OrcaRouter openai/gpt-5-mini	$0.25	$2	$0.025	—	400K	reasoningtoolsstructuredvision	Aug 7, 2025
SAP AI Core gpt-5-mini	$0.25	$2	$0.025	—	400K	reasoningtoolsstructuredvision	Aug 7, 2025
Azure Cognitive Services gpt-5-mini	$0.25	$2	$0.03	—	400K	reasoningtoolsno structuredvision	Aug 7, 2025
Pioneer gpt-5-mini	$0.25	$2	$0.025	$0.25	400K	reasoningtoolsstructuredvision	Aug 7, 2025
Helicone gpt-5-mini	$0.25	$2	$0.025	—	400K	no reasoningtoolsno structuredno vision	Jan 1, 2025
Vercel AI Gatewayvariant openai/gpt-5-mini	$0.25	$2	$0.025	—	400K	reasoningtoolsstructuredvision	Aug 7, 2025
DevPass (LLM Gateway) gpt-5-mini	$0.25	$2	$0.025	—	400K	reasoningtoolsstructuredvision	Aug 7, 2025
FastRouter openai/gpt-5-mini	$0.25	$2	$0.025	—	400K	reasoningtoolsno structuredvision	Aug 7, 2025
Cloudflare AI Gateway openai/gpt-5-mini	$0.25	$2	$0.025	—	128K	reasoningtoolsstructuredvision	Aug 7, 2025
GitHub Copilot gpt-5-mini	$0.25	$2	$0.025	—	264K	reasoningtoolsstructuredvision	Aug 7, 2025
Perplexity Agent openai/gpt-5-mini	$0.25	$2	$0.025	—	400K	reasoningtoolsno structuredvision	Aug 7, 2025

Best price history

Daily lowest published price across live providers. A lower line is better for the buyer.

Best input /M: $0.04unchanged
Best output /M: $0.29unchanged
Provider coverage: 37; 37 at the start · 24 snapshots

Published best prices are unchanged.

24 daily snapshots collected from Aug 21, 2026 through Sep 14, 2026. A price chart will appear after the first real move.

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Recent changes

Changelog →

contextvia cortecs · Sep 2, 2026
- output: 400K → 128K tokens
repricedvia requesty · Aug 28, 2026
- input: $0.247 → $0.275
- output: $1.98 → $2.20
- cache_read: $0.025 → $0.028
contextvia cloudflare-ai-gateway · Aug 25, 2026
- context: 400K → 128K tokens

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