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GPT-5 mini
Generally availableText / reasoning model
The compact, fast, low-cost member of the GPT-5 family. Punches above its price.
Yes — GPT-5 mini is a real OpenAI model.
Released 2025 by OpenAI, GPT-5 mini is part of the GPT-5 family. It's available through OpenAI's API, and we run it on PromptFrenzy — the examples below are real, unedited generations it produced.
Maker
OpenAIReleased
2025
Input price
$0.25 / 1M
Output price
$2 / 1M
What is GPT-5 mini?
GPT-5 mini is OpenAI’s small reasoning model — the budget, low-latency member of the GPT-5 family. In our Dream Home showdown it finished in about a minute at a fraction of the cost of the big reasoners, and still returned a coherent, on-brief build. It’s the right default for high-volume or latency-sensitive work where you don’t need the flagship’s depth.
Strengths
- ✓Fast: ~1 minute on tasks where the flagships took 4–6.
- ✓Cheapest GPT-5-family model by a wide margin.
- ✓Surprisingly capable on structured generative tasks for its size.
Trade-offs
- ✗Less depth than GPT-5 / GPT-5.5 on the hardest open-ended problems.
What GPT-5 mini actually produces
Real, unedited outputs from GPT-5 mini in our model showdowns — same brief, same constraints as every other model, one shot each.
“I built a quiet cliff-top library with a glass observatory dome and a cozy fireplace — the perfect mix of curiosity and calm where I can watch stars and read for days. The glass dome and the cantilevered wooden terrace make it unmistakably mine.”
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