When was GPT-5 mini released?

GPT-5 mini was released on August 7, 2025 by OpenAI. This is the official GPT-5 mini release date tracked on LLM Stats.

Who created GPT-5 mini?

GPT-5 mini was created by OpenAI.

What is the license for GPT-5 mini?

GPT-5 mini is released under the Proprietary license.

What is the knowledge cutoff date for GPT-5 mini?

GPT-5 mini has a knowledge cutoff of May 2024, meaning it was trained on data up to that point and may not know about events after it.

Is GPT-5 mini multimodal?

Yes, GPT-5 mini is multimodal and can accept both text and images as input.

What is GPT-5 mini latency?

GPT-5 mini p95 time to first token is 1.00 seconds via OpenAI over the trailing 7 days. Lower time to first token means the model begins responding sooner for chat, agents and model workloads.

Where can I use GPT-5 mini?

GPT-5 mini is available through 1 provider including OpenAI.

Where is the GPT-5 mini paper or technical report?

GPT-5 mini has a paper or technical report available at https://openai.com/index/gpt-5/. Use that source for architecture, training, release and evaluation details.

What models should I compare GPT-5 mini against?

Common GPT-5 mini comparisons include GPT-5 mini vs Grok-3 Mini, GPT-5 mini vs Sarvam-105B, GPT-5 mini vs Gemma 4 26B-A4B. Compare them side by side for benchmark scores, pricing, context window, latency and provider availability.

GPT-5 mini Benchmarks, Pricing & Context Window

Name: GPT-5 mini
Author: OpenAI

GPT-5 mini: Benchmarks, Pricing & Context Window

GPT-5 mini is a language model from OpenAI, released in August 2025, with multimodal input, a 400K-token context window, and pricing from $0.250/M input and $2.00/M output.

A faster, more cost-efficient version of GPT-5 for well-defined tasks. Great for well-defined tasks and precise prompts with high reasoning capabilities at reduced cost.

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GPT-5 mini benchmarks

Capability tiers

Standing within each category, adjusted for leaderboard depth.

Real tasks performance

High-confidence performance for GPT-5 mini across real-world prompt categories. Only 95% intervals at most 4 points wide are shown.

Performance by conversation depth

How GPT-5 mini holds up as conversations get longer.

Quality Tracker

GPT-5 mini Performance Across Datasets

Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts

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GPT-5 mini pricing

Providers

GPT-5 mini starts at $0.250 per million input tokens and $2.00 per million output tokens via OpenAI.

Provider	Input $/M	Cached input $/M	Output $/M	Context in / out	TTFT p95 s	Output p5 c/s	Modalities in / out
OpenAI	$0.250	—	$2.00	400.0K/128.0K	1.00	—	/

Cached input is the discounted price for prompt tokens served from a provider cache. TTFT is time to first token. Output is characters per second; p5 is the sustained floor exceeded by 95% of observed requests.

GPT-5 mini context window

Input and output token limits for GPT-5 mini, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.

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GPT-5 mini latency

GPT-5 mini time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live model usage over the trailing 7 days.

GPT-5 mini examples

Recent arena outputs from GPT-5 mini, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.

GPT-5 mini license

GPT-5 mini is a proprietary model available under its provider's product and API terms, has a knowledge cutoff of May 2024.

License: Proprietary; Hosted access
Knowledge cutoff: May 2024

Proprietary license - usage restrictions apply

GPT-5 mini resources

Official sources for GPT-5 mini: provider documentation, official playground, official launch post.

GPT-5 mini vs other models

The most-compared alternatives to GPT-5 mini are Grok-3 Mini, Sarvam-105B, Gemma 4 26B-A4B. Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.