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GPT-5 Image Mini Pricing
OpenAI · openai-gpt-5-image-mini
Input / 1M tokens
$2.50
Output / 1M tokens
$2.00
Context window
400k tokens
≈ 533 pages of text
Max output
128k tokens
What it costs in practice
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.0038
1,000 requests / month$3.80/mo10,000 requests / month$38.00/mo100,000 requests / month$380.00/moEstimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with GPT-5 Image Mini preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.
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What it excels at
Cost-effective processing of large-context vision inputs including document and image analysis at high throughput.
The business tradeoff
Smaller model size produces shallower reasoning on complex multi-step tasks than full-scale GPT-5 variants.
Cheaper from OpenAI
Head-to-head
Vendor list rates, as of Jun 15, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.