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GPT-5 minivso3
GPT-5 mini leads 4 of 7 shared benchmarks. GPT-5 mini is 4.4x cheaper per token. GPT-5 mini has the larger context window (400K tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
4 – 3
GPT-5 mini leads
Cheaper per token
GPT-5 mini
4.4x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
GPT-5 mini
400K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
95.3079%
OpenAI
GPT-5 mini
OpenAI · released 2025-08-07
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
7 shared · 1 only GPT-5 mini · 0 only o3| Benchmark | GPT-5 mini | o3 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 7 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 71% ↗ | 69.1% ↗ | +1.9 pt | GPT-5 mini |
| GPQA Diamond | 81.6% ↗ | 81.8% ↗epoch | -0.2 pt | o3 |
| AIME 2025 | 87.5% ↗matharena ⚠ | 89.2% ↗matharena ⚠ | -1.7 pt | o3 |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 46.7% ↗epoch | 33.3% ↗epoch | +13.4 pt | GPT-5 mini |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 86.7% ↗epoch | 84.4% ↗epoch | +2.3 pt | GPT-5 mini |
| SimpleQA Verified | 21.6% ↗epoch | 49.4% ↗epoch | -27.8 pt | o3 |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run) | 64.7% ↗epoch | 62.3% ↗epoch | +2.4 pt | GPT-5 mini |
| Only GPT-5 mini reports · 1 | ||||
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 12.2% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| Only o3 reports · 0 | ||||
| o3 reports nothing GPT-5 mini does not. | ||||
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is GPT-5 mini minus o3 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | GPT-5 mini | o3 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 400K tokens | 200K tokens | GPT-5 mini |
| Max output | 128K tokens | 100K tokens | GPT-5 mini |
| Input price / 1M | $0.25 ↗ | $2 ↗ | GPT-5 mini |
| Output price / 1M | $2 ↗ | $8 ↗ | GPT-5 mini |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.025 ↗ | $0.5 ↗ | GPT-5 mini |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $2.25 | $10 | GPT-5 mini |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision | Tie |
| Released | 2025-08-07 | 2025-04-16 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 9 | 7 | — |
Reliability
OpenAI status
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