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GPT-5 Mini Pricing
OpenAI · openai-gpt-5-mini
Input / 1M tokens
$0.250
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)$0.0011
1,000 requests / month$1.10/mo10,000 requests / month$11.00/mo100,000 requests / month$110.00/moEstimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with GPT-5 Mini preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.
Price history
List price per 1M tokens since we started tracking in Jun 2026. The lines are flat because the price hasn't changed since then.
What it excels at
Handles long-context text and vision workloads at low cost with 400k input and 128k output windows.
The business tradeoff
Reasoning depth and complex task performance lag behind full-scale GPT-5 variants; output token pricing remains the dominant cost driver.
Cheaper from OpenAI
Head-to-head
Vendor list rates, as of Jun 23, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.