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GPT-5 mini

GPT-5 mini is an API-only (closed weights) language model from OpenAI, released August 7, 2025. The context window is 391K tokens. On the Epoch Capabilities Index it scores 146.1, rank 91 of 256 rated models. API price: $0.25 input / $2 output per million tokens.

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Lab
OpenAI
Released
August 7, 2025
Weights
API-only (closed weights)
Parameters
–
Context
391K
Price / M tokens
$0.25 / $2 in / out
Epoch ECI
146.1 #91

Strengths by category

ModelTape's 0–100 fit on Epoch AI benchmark results.

CategoryScoreBased on
Reasoning13.7Chess Puzzles, Mystery Game Puzzles, Humanity's Last Exam
Math37.6ProofBench, MATH level 5, OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025, FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private, FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private
Coding40.1Terminal Bench, SWE-bench Verified
Knowledge57.3GPQA diamond, SimpleQA Verified

Benchmark results

Benchmark (Epoch AI)Score
MATH level 597.8%
OTIS Mock AIME86.7%
GPQA Diamond69.4%
SWE-bench Verified64.7%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1–3)49.1%
Terminal-Bench34.8%
SimpleQA Verified21.6%
Chess Puzzles20.0%
Humanity's Last Exam19.4%
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private12.2%
ProofBench9.0%
Mystery Game Puzzles0.9%

Links

Announcement · Epoch AI benchmarks

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Data updated Thu, 12 Nov 2026 09:42 UTC. Benchmarks, Capabilities Index and model announcements: Epoch AI, “Capabilities & benchmarking” and “Data on AI models” (CC BY 4.0); category scores are ModelTape's own fit on Epoch's results. Releases and prices: models.dev (MIT). Sizes and quantizations: Hugging Face. “Runs on” figures are estimates from model size, quantization and memory bandwidth (±30–50%).
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