GPT-5 mini
GPT-5 mini by OpenAI. Official list price: $0.25 per 1M input and $2 per 1M output tokens.
Official price benchmark
USD per 1M tokens
- input
- $0.250
- output
- $2.00
- cache read
- $0.025
Your budget
Input:output ratio · Similar amounts of input and output
Purchasing power ranking
$100 · GPT-5 mini · Balanced
Best price
RunAPI
−94%
providers
3
max −94%
Purchasing power ranking
The provider's published prices next to the vendor's official list.
| # | Provider | Input | Output | Cache | Uptime | Latency | Score | Tokens for budget | Save |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Official price | $0.250 | $2.00 | $0.025 | — | — | — | 88.9M | 0% |
| 1 | RunAPIdegraded · Nov 11, 2026 | $0.015 | $0.120 | $0.0015 | 90.5% | 1.03 s | 85 | 1.48B | −94% |
| 2 | Crazyrouterdown · Nov 11, 2026 | $0.038 | $0.300 | $0.0045 | 47.6% | 1.34 s | 51 | 593M | −85% |
| 3 | Polza.aioperational · Nov 11, 2026 | $0.184 | $1.47 | $0.018 | 100.0% | 504 ms | 98 | 121M | −27% |
Some links on this site are partner links. They do not affect prices or ranking. Uptime and latency come from our own GET /models probes every 30 minutes, not a guarantee that the model is available.
Cost estimate
What one request and a month of traffic cost at the selected provider.
per request
$0
per month
$0.47
RunAPI · −94% · 1.20K / 500
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Frequently asked questions
Answers are generated from the live quotes.
We collect GPT-5 mini prices two ways: the official OpenAI list and quotes from providers our crawler checks daily. Providers in our catalogue sell GPT-5 mini at $0.015 in / $0.120 out (94% below the official list). Everything is normalised to a blended cost at a chosen input:output ratio, so “GPT-5 mini price per 1M tokens” means the same thing on every page.
What does the GPT-5 mini API cost?
The official OpenAI list price is $0.250 per 1M input tokens and $2.00 per 1M output tokens. Cached input is $0.025 per 1M tokens, 10× cheaper than the regular input.
How much does 1 million tokens of GPT-5 mini cost?
1M input tokens cost $0.250, 1M output tokens — $2.00. With a 1:1 input/output load a million tokens works out to about $1.13. Chatbots with long context push the blended price down; code generation pushes it up.
Where is the GPT-5 mini API cheapest?
Our measurements show RunAPI as the cheapest: 94% below the official price. Quotes from 3 providers refresh daily — see the table above.
What is the GPT-5 mini context window?
The context window is 200K tokens. Some vendors raise the price above a context threshold — check the plan notes.
How do I check that a provider key works?
The free checker sends a GET request to your endpoint's model list and reports status and latency. The key is not stored server-side.