gpt-5-mini pricing
gpt-5-mini is priced at $0.80 per 1M input tokens and $3.20 per 1M output tokens, with roughly 150 ms to first token and about 120 tokens/sec output throughput.
Price per 1M tokens
Input $0.80 · Output $3.20 · Output/input ratio 4.0x.
- 1M input + 1M output tokens: $4.00
- 10M input + 2M output tokens/month: $14.40
- 100M input + 20M output tokens/month: $144.00
Cheaper alternatives to gpt-5-mini
Same workload, lower output price. Validate quality before switching.
- claude-haiku-4.5 — $2.50/1M output (22% cheaper)
- deepseek-r2 — $2.20/1M output (31% cheaper)
- gpt-4.1-mini — $2.00/1M output (38% cheaper)
- mistral-medium-3 — $2.00/1M output (38% cheaper)
How much are you wasting on gpt-5-mini?
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