API PRICES
OpenAI · gpt-5-mini
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Price comparison
- Official (cash)
- Input 0.25 / output 2 USD/million tokensOpenAI ·
- Lowest inference provider (cash)
- Input 0.25 / output 2 USD/million tokensOpenRouter · Aggregator · same as official ·
- Lowest relay (credit)
- Not listed
Official and inference-provider prices are cash; relay prices are site credit (USD credit or CNY credit), a different unit, compared separately. Relay prices are per million total tokens at 75% input and 25% output.
OpenAI · gpt-5-mini official price: input 0.25, output 2 USD per million tokens (OpenAI, observed 2026-10-17). Cheapest inference provider: OpenRouter, input 0.25, output 2 USD per million tokens. 112 sites have comparable prices; 185 sites list this model.
Price ranges per million tokens
Official cash prices · Lowest 0.6875 · median 0.6875 · highest 0.6875 · 1 quotes USD / per million tokens
Inference provider cash prices · Lowest 0.6875 · median 0.6875 · highest 0.6875 · 1 quotes USD / per million tokens
Relay USD credit prices · Lowest 0.6875 · median 0.6875 · highest 0.6875 · 1 quotes USD / per million tokens, site credit
Official price
| Provider | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Unit | Observed | Conditions and source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | 0.25 | 2 | 0.025 | — | USD / 1M tokens | Official source |
Official prices are the vendor's cash prices. Inference providers also list cash prices and can be compared directly. Relays list prices in site credit; what you actually pay depends on each site's top-up rate, so they cannot be compared with official prices directly.
Inference providers
| Provider | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Unit | Observed | Conditions and source | vs official |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter · Aggregator | 0.25 | 2 | 0.025 | — | USD / 1M tokens | Official source | Input 0% · Output 0% |
Unit: CNY credits per 1M tokens. These are site-credit prices; actual cost depends on each site’s top-up rate.
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All per-token prices: 97,455 prices from 871 sites (about 765 companies). 89,631 are ranked, from 861 sites (about 755 companies); 7,824 more are listed separately and not ranked. Prices collected up to 2026-10-17.
This model has 586 recorded prices; 314 can be compared directly (313 ranked, 1 listed separately). Not comparable yet: price not parsed yet 192, scope of the official doc price not confirmed 32, tiered by rules (see Tiered prices) 21, display unit not confirmed 17, billed per request or another unit 2, ratio looks unset 2, new price under review; showing the previous one 1
0 recent · 0 stale (older than 10 days, or not updated by this refresh) · 0 unverified timestamps. No recent prices to summarize in this group. 0 zero-valued pairs are separately unverified, without proof of free eligibility. Timing does not verify payment, upstream identity or quality.
Prices are converted to site credits using each site’s published ratio. What you actually pay depends on its top-up rate. Input, output and cache prices in each row come from the same plan. Several sites run by the same company take one place in the ranking: its cheapest plan, with the other sites listed under it. We judge “same company” by identical prices, status pages or homepage code; this is not a legal finding. To see every site’s prices, choose “All plans” or filter by provider.
“Self-declared unofficial channel” means the plan name itself says “reverse-engineered” or similar. We have not verified their source or quality. Minimum and median only count regular plans.
FAQ
Which API is cheapest for OpenAI · gpt-5-mini?
No valid quotes within 10 days. Older quotes are listed as reference prices.
What is the official price for OpenAI · gpt-5-mini?
Input 0.25, output 2 USD per million tokens, checked 2026-10-17. Lowest inference provider: OpenRouter, input 0.25, output 2 USD per million tokens. Input 0% higher than official.
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