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GPT-5 Mini

OpenAI · released August 2025

GPT-5 Mini is a OpenAI model with a 400K token context window — about 570 pages of text. It reads Text, Images, and Files and replies in Text. It can show its reasoning before it answers.

$0.287

input / 1M tokens

$2.30

output / 1M tokens

400K

context — about 570 pages

0.33¢

a client proposal

Pricing

Input
$0.287 per million tokens
Output
$2.30 per million tokens
Cached input
$0.029 per million tokens
Web search
1.1¢ per search

Billed from your Alyph wallet. Prices can change when the provider changes theirs — last checked August 9, 2026.

The numbers

Provider
OpenAI
Released
August 2025 (2025-08-07)
Context window
400K tokens — about 570 pages
Max output
128K tokens per reply
Input
Text, Images, and Files
Output
Text
Reasoning
Shows its thinking before answering
Knowledge cutoff
2024-05-31

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What a task costs

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

GPT-5 Mini

OpenAI

0.17¢

for this task

33% input · 67% output

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Questions, answered

How much does GPT-5 Mini cost on Alyph?

GPT-5 Mini costs $0.287 per million input tokens and $2.30 per million output tokens on Alyph. A typical task — 5K tokens in, 800 out — works out to about 0.33¢. Billed from your Alyph wallet, with hard spending limits. Prices can change when the provider changes theirs; this page was last checked on August 9, 2026.

What is GPT-5 Mini's context window?

400K tokens — about 570 pages. Replies can be up to 128K tokens long.

Can GPT-5 Mini read images and files?

GPT-5 Mini reads Text, Images, and Files. Drop a file onto the canvas and it becomes part of the context — the only limit is the context window.

Does GPT-5 Mini show its reasoning?

Yes. GPT-5 Mini can expose its thinking before the final answer, so you can watch how it got there.

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