GPT-5 Mini: Price, Context, Benchmarks, and Release Details

OpenAI · first seen Oct 8, 2026 · score computed Oct 9, 2026, 01:09 UTC
50.6
SI Score (method si-v3-retained-evidence-2)
#104 of 140 ranked
99% confidence 99 percent, High confidence — 5 of 8 expected sources in
Coverage 79% of expected source weight · 100% confidence at 80% coverage

Pillar breakdown

Coding (weight 40 percent) 62.4
Math (weight 15 percent) 48.5
Preference (weight 15 percent) 70.4
Reasoning (weight 30 percent) 26.3

Pillar weights: reasoning 30% · math 15% · coding 40% · preference 15%. Benchmark results use fixed 0–100 scales before averaging; incomplete evidence is shrunk toward 50.

Facts

Input price / 1M
$0.25models.devFirst-party hosted API; MIT models.dev transcription. Provider documentation: https://platform.openai.com/docs/models. Exact canonical endpoint; lowest short-context Standard USD token tier; cache/batch discounts excluded. Deprecated endpoints excluded; openai/gpt-5-mini Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · MIT
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Output price / 1M
$2.00models.devFirst-party hosted API; MIT models.dev transcription. Provider documentation: https://platform.openai.com/docs/models. Exact canonical endpoint; lowest short-context Standard USD token tier; cache/batch discounts excluded. Deprecated endpoints excluded; openai/gpt-5-mini Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · MIT
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Context window
400Kmodels.devPublished source fact Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · MIT
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Max output
128Kmodels.devPublished source fact Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · MIT
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Released
Aug 7, 2025OpenAI API changelogPublished source fact Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
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Open weights
Nomodels.devPublished source fact Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · MIT
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License
not yet reported
Input modalities
text, imagemodels.devPublished source fact Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · MIT
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Benchmark results

29 results
Benchmark Raw result Normalized (0–100) Pillar
arc agi v1 public eval 61.5%ARC PrizeARC Prize steward-published result; exact edition/subset; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the aggregate export, not the evaluation date. [variant] gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07-highPublished Oct 6, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
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61.5 reasoning
arc agi v1 public eval 24.4%ARC PrizeARC Prize steward-published result; exact edition/subset; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the aggregate export, not the evaluation date. [variant] gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07-lowPublished Oct 6, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
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24.4 reasoning
arc agi v1 public eval 46.3%ARC PrizeARC Prize steward-published result; exact edition/subset; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the aggregate export, not the evaluation date. [variant] gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07-mediumPublished Oct 6, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
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46.3 reasoning
arc agi v1 semi private 54.3%ARC PrizeARC Prize steward-published result; exact edition/subset; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the aggregate export, not the evaluation date. [variant] gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07-highPublished Oct 6, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
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54.3 reasoning
arc agi v1 semi private 26.3%ARC PrizeARC Prize steward-published result; exact edition/subset; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the aggregate export, not the evaluation date. [variant] gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07-lowPublished Oct 6, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
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26.3 reasoning
arc agi v1 semi private 37.3%ARC PrizeARC Prize steward-published result; exact edition/subset; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the aggregate export, not the evaluation date. [variant] gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07-mediumPublished Oct 6, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
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37.3 reasoning
arc agi v2 public eval 5.8%ARC PrizeARC Prize steward-published result; exact edition/subset; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the aggregate export, not the evaluation date. [variant] gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07-highPublished Oct 6, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
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5.8 reasoning
arc agi v2 public eval 0.3%ARC PrizeARC Prize steward-published result; exact edition/subset; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the aggregate export, not the evaluation date. [variant] gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07-lowPublished Oct 6, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
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0.3 reasoning
arc agi v2 public eval 0.6%ARC PrizeARC Prize steward-published result; exact edition/subset; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the aggregate export, not the evaluation date. [variant] gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07-mediumPublished Oct 6, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
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0.6 reasoning
arc agi v2 semi private 4.4%ARC PrizeARC Prize steward-published result; exact edition/subset; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the aggregate export, not the evaluation date. [variant] gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07-highPublished Oct 6, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
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4.4 reasoning
arc agi v2 semi private 0.8%ARC PrizeARC Prize steward-published result; exact edition/subset; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the aggregate export, not the evaluation date. [variant] gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07-lowPublished Oct 6, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
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0.8 reasoning
arc agi v2 semi private 4.0%ARC PrizeARC Prize steward-published result; exact edition/subset; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the aggregate export, not the evaluation date. [variant] gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07-mediumPublished Oct 6, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
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4.0 reasoning
frontiermath tier 4 v2 12.2%Epoch AI BenchmarkingEpoch-owned evaluation mean score; scores only, no benchmark questions [variant] highPublished Jun 12, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · CC-BY
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12.2 math
frontiermath tiers 1 3 v2 46.7%Epoch AI BenchmarkingEpoch-owned evaluation mean score; scores only, no benchmark questions [variant] highPublished Jun 12, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · CC-BY
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46.7 math
frontiermath tiers 1 3 v2 18.2%Epoch AI BenchmarkingEpoch-owned evaluation mean score; scores only, no benchmark questions [variant] lowPublished Aug 27, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · CC-BY
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18.2 math
frontiermath tiers 1 3 v2 6.0%Epoch AI BenchmarkingEpoch-owned evaluation mean score; scores only, no benchmark questions [variant] minimalPublished Aug 27, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · CC-BY
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6.0 math
gpqa diamond 75%Epoch AI BenchmarkingEpoch-owned evaluation mean score; scores only, no benchmark questions [variant] highPublished Oct 30, 2025 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · CC-BY
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75.0 reasoning
gpqa diamond 71.7%Epoch AI BenchmarkingEpoch-owned evaluation mean score; scores only, no benchmark questions [variant] mediumPublished Aug 7, 2025 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · CC-BY
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71.7 reasoning
gpqa diamond 71.7%Epoch AI BenchmarkingEpoch-owned evaluation mean score; scores only, no benchmark questions [variant] minimalPublished Aug 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · CC-BY
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71.7 reasoning
hle scale 19.4%Humanity’s Last ExamPotential contamination warning: This model was evaluated after the public release of HLE, allowing model builder access to the prompts and solutions. [variant] Published Aug 22, 2025 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
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19.4 reasoning
lmarena text 1373.2 eloLMArena / ArenaPublished source fact [variant] text / overallPublished Oct 2, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · CC-BY-4.0
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70.4 preference
math level 5 97.8%Epoch AI BenchmarkingEpoch-owned evaluation mean score; scores only, no benchmark questions [variant] highPublished Oct 30, 2025 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · CC-BY
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97.8 math
math level 5 96.8%Epoch AI BenchmarkingEpoch-owned evaluation mean score; scores only, no benchmark questions [variant] mediumPublished Aug 20, 2025 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · CC-BY
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96.8 math
otis mock aime 2024 2025 86.7%Epoch AI BenchmarkingEpoch-owned evaluation mean score; scores only, no benchmark questions [variant] highPublished Oct 30, 2025 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · CC-BY
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86.7 math
otis mock aime 2024 2025 78.3%Epoch AI BenchmarkingEpoch-owned evaluation mean score; scores only, no benchmark questions [variant] mediumPublished Aug 7, 2025 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · CC-BY
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78.3 math
otis mock aime 2024 2025 55.6%Epoch AI BenchmarkingEpoch-owned evaluation mean score; scores only, no benchmark questions [variant] minimalPublished Aug 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · CC-BY
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55.6 math
swe bench verified 64.7%Epoch AI BenchmarkingEpoch-owned evaluation mean score; scores only, no benchmark questions [variant] mediumPublished Feb 1, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · CC-BY
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64.7 coding
swe bench verified 56.2%SWE-bench VerifiedSWE-bench published model plus agent result; harness retained, not a base model evaluation [variant] mini-SWE-agent; 2.0.0Published Feb 17, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
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56.2 coding
swe bench verified 59.8%SWE-bench VerifiedSWE-bench published model plus agent result; harness retained, not a base model evaluation [variant] mini-SWE-agent; medium; 1.7.0Published Aug 7, 2025 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
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59.8 coding

Normalization uses fixed absolute 0–100 scales for each unit, independently of other models that have a result on each benchmark. Coverage and evidence breadth still affect the composite; compare the evaluation conditions before reading a small score gap as decisive. “lab-reported” marks the provider's own published figure.

Sources: in and pending

in Reported (5)

  • ARC Prize · arrived Oct 8, 2026
  • Epoch AI Benchmarking · arrived Oct 8, 2026
  • Humanity’s Last Exam · arrived Oct 8, 2026
  • LMArena / Arena · arrived Oct 8, 2026
  • SWE-bench Verified · arrived Oct 8, 2026

pending Awaiting (3)

  • Official model cards via models.dev · carries 4% of expected weight
  • LiveBench · carries 11% of expected weight
  • Terminal-Bench · carries 6% of expected weight

The confidence % rises as pending sources publish. Some sources never cover some models — that is why 100% confidence arrives at 80% of expected weight, not at full coverage.