OpenAI

GPT-5 mini

GPT-5 mini is a proprietary model from OpenAI, released Aug 7, 2025. It ranks #182 of 351 on the LMArena text leaderboard with a rating of 1373. It costs $0.25 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens, with a 400K-token context window.

LMArena text1373
Rank#182/351
95% interval1369–1378
Votes26.8K
Developer
OpenAI
Released
Aug 7, 2025
Context window
400K
Price in / out, per 1M tokens
$0.25 / $2
Weights
Proprietary
Inputs
Text, Images, Files
Reasoning
Yes
Tool use
Yes

Benchmarks

BenchmarkScore barAccuracyRankCost / test
SWE-benchCoding60.80%74 / 85$0.05
Vibe Code BenchCoding14.17%92 / 115$0.25
LiveCodeBenchCoding86.61%21 / 143$0.25 / $2
MedCodeMedicine43.05%48 / 107$0.25 / $2
MedQAMedicine96.06%7 / 92$0.25 / $2
GPQA DiamondReasoning80.30%68 / 138$0.25 / $2
MMLU-ProReasoning82.23%80 / 138$0.25 / $2
AIMEReasoning91.46%24 / 96$0.25 / $2
MMMUReasoning78.91%50 / 93$0.25 / $2

Vals AI, as of Oct 24, 2026.

LMArena, by category

LeaderboardRatingRankVotes
TextLMArena1373182 / 35126.8K
CodingLMArena1406170 / 3465.5K
MathLMArena1378185 / 3391.5K
Creative writingLMArena1325197 / 3493.5K
Instruction followingLMArena1357181 / 3517K
Hard promptsLMArena1380178 / 35112.9K
Multi-turnLMArena1363192 / 3494.4K
Long queriesLMArena1355194 / 3305.9K
ExpertLMArena1379175 / 3051.2K
Legal and governmentIndustries1375184 / 3251.7K
Medicine and healthcareIndustries1380183 / 3251.4K
Business and financeIndustries1358186 / 3444.8K
ChineseLanguages1385192 / 3282K
SpanishLanguages1355190 / 249856
GermanLanguages1366159 / 261592
FrenchLanguages1386167 / 252414
JapaneseLanguages1341136 / 236460
VisionLMArena120293 / 14628.9K

LMArena, CC BY 4.0, as of Oct 22, 2026. Where a model is rated at several effort levels, its best is shown.

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OpenAI

The lab behind GPT and ChatGPT, which brought large language models to hundreds of millions of people. Founded 2015, based in San Francisco. openai.com

Questions

Who makes GPT-5 mini?

GPT-5 mini is made by OpenAI, founded 2015 and based in San Francisco.

How much does GPT-5 mini cost?

$0.25 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens, at its provider’s list price.

What is GPT-5 mini’s context window?

400K tokens (400,000).

How does GPT-5 mini rank?

#182 of 351 on LMArena’s text leaderboard, rated 1373 (95% interval 1369–1378) from 26,799 votes, as of Oct 22, 2026.

Is GPT-5 mini open source?

No. GPT-5 mini is proprietary and served through its provider’s API.

Sources

Every number on this page comes from these sources; models without a published number show none. Download the data. Cite as “Nexus Explorer, nexus.inc/models”.