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GPT-5 Mini benchmarks, ranks and price

Where Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL place GPT-5 Mini, what it costs through OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway, and the models either side of it on the consensus.

Updated Oct 1, 2026Full leaderboard Sources and method

Read Oct 1, 2026

#46of 85

on the LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 46 across 3 leaderboards.

Source: Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL, combined by Rank.ai.

By leaderboard

Where each leaderboard places GPT-5 Mini

Artificial Analysis

#34of 51

Score 16.8. Best run: openai/gpt-5-mini.

Intelligence Index: a composite of reasoning, knowledge, maths and coding evaluations.

LiveBench

Not measured by LiveBench.

Contamination-limited questions refreshed each release: reasoning, maths, coding, data analysis, language.

LMArena

#53of 79

Score 1390. Best run: gpt-5-mini-high.

Blind head-to-head human votes, style controlled.

Berkeley BFCL

#13of 37

Score 55.46%. Best run: GPT-5-mini-2025-08-07 (FC).

Function calling and tool use, single turn to multi turn and web search.

Price and context

$0.69

OpenRouter: $0.25 in, $2.00 out. Vercel AI Gateway: $0.25 in, $2.00 out Context window 400K tokens.

Nearby

The models either side of GPT-5 Mini

Questions about GPT-5 Mini

How good is GPT-5 Mini?

GPT-5 Mini ranks #46 of 85 models on the Rank.ai LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 46 out of 100 across 3 leaderboards.

Is GPT-5 Mini better than MiniMax M2.7?

Not on the consensus: MiniMax M2.7 scores 47 to GPT-5 Mini's 46. Compare them source by source below, since the leaderboards test different things.

Is GPT-5 Mini better than Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview?

On the consensus, yes: 46 to 45.

How much does GPT-5 Mini cost?

$0.25 per million input tokens and $2.00 per million output tokens on OpenRouter, the cheaper listing we read. Blended at three input tokens to one output, that is $0.69 per million.

Is GPT-5 Mini good for coding?

It scores 15.6 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Index, placing it #47 for coding among the models on this leaderboard.

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