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gpt-5-mini

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As of 18 September 2026, gpt-5-mini costs $0.250 per million input tokens and $2.00 per million output tokens on OpenAI. Observed on OpenAI's own published price list on 18 September 2026.

Input $0.250 per 1M
Output $2.00 per 1M

Lifecycle notice. A third-party registry reports a deprecation date of 2026-12-11 for the underlying model. That source is level 5, so we publish it as a signal, not as a verified fact. See how we rank sources.

What does gpt-5-mini cost?

ParameterValueUnit ObservedSourceProof
Input price $0.250 USD per 1M tokens 18 September 2026
checked 18 September 2026
official API L3 486cdb3c8705
Output price $2.00 USD per 1M tokens 18 September 2026
checked 18 September 2026
official API L3 486cdb3c8705
Cache read price $0.025 USD per 1M tokens 18 September 2026
checked 18 September 2026
official API L3 486cdb3c8705

Does the price change with the hour or the size of the request?

Yes. This provider publishes conditional rates, so the figure above is not the only price you can pay. Each rate below applies under a stated condition, taken verbatim from the provider's own catalogue.

ParameterRate AppliesObserved
Input price $0.125 batch tier 18 September 2026
Input price $0.450 fast tier 18 September 2026
Input price $0.125 flex tier 18 September 2026
Output price $1.00 batch tier 18 September 2026
Output price $3.60 fast tier 18 September 2026
Output price $1.00 flex tier 18 September 2026
Cache read price $0.0125 batch tier 18 September 2026
Cache read price $0.045 fast tier 18 September 2026
Cache read price $0.0125 flex tier 18 September 2026

We record each conditional rate as its own dated observation, so a discount window that disappears shows up as a change like any other.

How has gpt-5-mini moved?

Output price, 4 observations between 27 August 2026 and 18 September 2026. Range $2.00 to $2.00. Drawn as a step: a value holds until the next observation, we do not interpolate between them.

Has gpt-5-mini changed price?

No change has been recorded since we started observing this service on 25 August 2026. We record a change only when two successive observations differ, so an empty table here means the values have held.

What does gpt-5-mini cost elsewhere?

We track this model at 2 sellers. The same model rarely costs the same everywhere, and the difference is not visible from any single seller's catalogue.

Compare gpt-5-mini across 2 sellers, side by side, or see every model tracked at more than one seller.

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Where these figures come from

Source: OpenAI. Every figure on this page was read from OpenAI's own published price list, and every row above links straight back to it. We publish factual values with attribution, we do not reproduce OpenAI's content, and we send readers to them. If you publish this source and want us to stop tracking it, write to contact@bertrande.com and we will act on it without argument.

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