OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini

openai/gpt-5-mini · OpenAIUnmeasurable
Declared family
GPT
Evidence confidence
Unknown
Declared tokenizer tag
GPT
Entered catalogue
7 August 2025
Last tested
21 August 2026
Measurement
Unmeasurable: prompt caching corrupts its token accounting

Evidence stack

Signals of different kinds, weighed together
SignalResultReference
Tokenizer signatureNot measured
API surfaceIdentical contract to 2 other entriesapi_e1f8149d
Context and output400,000 context · 128,000 max outputdeclared
Reasoning contractMandatory · efforts high, medium, low, minimal · default mediumdeclared
Serving providers observedOpenAImeasured 21 August 2026

The measured fingerprint

Marginal prompt-token cost of each test string, grouped by script
All 50 rows, 46 excluded as corrupt

English and whitespace

en-prosex
en-longx
spaces-20x
spaces-60x
tabs-20x
newlines-20x
mixed-wsx

Digits

digits-9x
digits-12x
digits-30x
digits-sep7
float-longx

CJK

zh-commonx
zh-longx
zh-rarex
ja-kanax
ja-kanjix
kox

Other scripts

rux
arx
hex
hix
thx
elx

Emoji

emoji-basic8
emoji-skinx
emoji-zwj-familyx
emoji-zwj-x3x
emoji-flagsx
emoji-profx

Rare Unicode

mathx
boxdrawx
combiningx
cjk-ext-bx
surrogates40
zalgox
rtl-mixx

Code

py-codex
py-indentx
jsonx
htmlx
regexx
camelx
snakex

Repetition and encodings

rare-word-x531
repeat-tokx
base64x
hexx
urlx
uuidx

An x marks a row excluded as corrupt (caching or provider interference detected during measurement). Overhead subtracted: 6 prompt tokens.

Declared record

What the catalogue claims about this model

GPT-5 Mini is a compact version of GPT-5, designed to handle lighter-weight reasoning tasks. It provides the same instruction-following and safety-tuning benefits as GPT-5, but with reduced latency and cost....

Modalities
text+image+file->text
Declared tokenizer
GPT
Prompt price
$0.25 / M tokens
Completion price
$2.00 / M tokens

Supported parameters

include_reasoningmax_completion_tokensmax_tokensreasoningreasoning_effortresponse_formatseedstructured_outputstool_choicetools

defaults: {"temperature":null,"top_p":null,"top_k":null,"frequency_penalty":null,"presence_penalty":null,"repetition_penalty":null}

Catalogue entry

History

Every observation, kept as taken
  • 7 August 2025Enters the OpenRouter catalogue declared as GPT.
  • 21 August 2026Fingerprinted in the YFarmX catalogue sweep · 4 of 50 strings measured clean.

Cite this page as the evidence record for OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini: the URL is stable, measurements are dated, and revisions append to the history above. Method: tokenizer fingerprinting, v1, 50 strings. The raw data behind every figure is on the data page.