GPT-5 mini pricing
GPT-5 mini costs $0.25 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens , with cached input at $0.025. Batch requests are discounted 50%.
Price per million tokens
| Input | $0.25 |
| Cached input | $0.025 |
| Output | $2 |
| Context window | not published |
| Batch discount | −50% |
What it costs in practice
Monthly cost for three common workload shapes, with prompt caching applied.
| Workload | Shape | Per request | Per month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Support chatbot | 1.5k in / 400 out, 100k requests/month, 30% cached | $0.00107 | $107.38 |
| RAG / document Q&A | 12k in / 700 out, 50k requests/month, 60% cached | $0.00278 | $139.00 |
| Coding agent | 25k in / 2.5k out, 20k requests/month, 80% cached | $0.00675 | $135.00 |
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Comparable models from other providers
| Model | Provider | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite | $0.25 | $1.5 | |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | $0.3 | $2.5 | |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | $0.3 | $2.5 | |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | DeepSeek | $0.44 | $1.32 |
All figures verified 2026-08-18 against OpenAI's official pricing documentation . Fields the provider does not publish are shown as “—” rather than estimated.