What is the context window of OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini?

OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini supports a context window of 400K tokens.

Is OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini free to use?

OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini is a paid model. It costs $0.250 per million input tokens and $2.00 per million output tokens.

How is LLM API pricing calculated?

LLM pricing has two components: input tokens (everything you send) and output tokens (what the model generates). Total cost = (prompt tokens × input rate + output tokens × output rate) / 1,000,000 × number of requests.

OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini API Pricing — $0.250 Input / $2.00 Output per 1M Tokens

Q: How much does OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini cost?

OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini costs $0.250 per million input tokens and $2.00 per million output tokens via OpenRouter. Pricing was last updated Oct 29, 2026.

OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini by OpenAI — $0.250 input / $2.00 output per 1M tokens via OpenRouter. Context: 400K tokens. Pricing last updated Oct 29, 2026.

Input / 1M tokens

$0.250

Output / 1M tokens

$2.00

Provider

OpenAI

Context window

400K tokens

Via

OpenRouter

Cost at common usage volumes

Usage	Daily	Monthly
Chatbot (100/day)	$0.263	$7.88
Small app (1K/day)	$1.25	$37.50
Mid-scale (10K/day)	$15.00	$450.00
Large scale (100K/day)	$325.00	$9750.00

Model ID: openai/gpt-5-mini
Data source: OpenRouter public API — updated Oct 29, 2026.

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About OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini

OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini is an LLM developed by OpenAI. Input costs $0.250 per million tokens and output costs $2.00 per million tokens via OpenRouter. It supports a context window of 400K tokens.

Pricing Details

Via the OpenRouter API:

Input tokens: $0.250 per 1 million tokens
Output tokens: $2.00 per 1 million tokens

A token is roughly 0.75 words. For context: a typical user message of 100 words is approximately 133 tokens; a 500-word system prompt is about 650 tokens.

How Much Does OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini Cost?

For a typical chatbot application (1,000 requests/day, 1,000 prompt tokens and 500 output tokens per request):

Daily cost: $1.2500
Monthly cost: $37.500

Accessing OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini via OpenRouter

OpenRouter provides a unified API for 200+ LLMs including OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini. You can use it with any OpenAI-compatible SDK by setting the base URL to https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 and using your OpenRouter API key. The model ID is openai/gpt-5-mini.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini is available on OpenRouter with the model ID openai/gpt-5-mini. OpenRouter provides a unified API compatible with OpenAI's SDK format.