GPT-5 mini (2025-08-07)

API ID gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 is an OpenAI model, released August 2025.

Status: Deprecated
Released: August 2025
Shutdown: Dec 11, 2026
Replacement: GPT-5.6 Terragpt-5.6-terra

It stops serving on December 11, 2026. Recommended replacement: gpt-5.6-terra.

Free tier: Free for shared data, 10M tokens a day for Launch and Grow (2.5M for Build), in place when tracking began (October 12, 2026) (source) · All free models

Benchmarks

Scores as each source published them

Comparing with GPT-4.1 mini, the previous model in this line. A score is compared only with the same benchmark from the same source, at the same setting where both have it. Full comparison: prices, limits, features

Epoch AI

Benchmark	GPT-5 mini (2025-08-07)	GPT-4.1 mini	Change	Setting	Run	Source
FrontierMath Tier 4	12.2%	not run		high effort	Jun 12, 2026	source
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 Other settings 18.2% vs not run low effort 6.0% vs not run minimal effort	46.7%	6.7%	+40.0 pts	high effort (vs no setting)	Jun 12, 2026	source
GPQA Diamond Other settings 71.7% vs not run minimal effort 71.7% vs not run medium effort	75.0%	65.8%	+9.2 pts	high effort (vs no setting)	Oct 30, 2025	source
MATH Level 5 Other settings 96.8% vs not run medium effort	97.8%	87.3%	+10.5 pts	high effort (vs no setting)	Oct 30, 2025	source
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 Other settings 78.3% vs not run medium effort 55.6% vs not run minimal effort	86.7%	44.7%	+42.0 pts	high effort (vs no setting)	Oct 30, 2025	source
SimpleQA Verified	21.6%	12.7%	+8.9 pts	high effort (vs no setting)	Aug 10, 2026	source
SWE-bench Verified	64.7%	not run		medium effort	Feb 1, 2026	source

Run independently by Epoch AI. Data: Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking (epoch.ai/benchmarks), CC BY.

On cloud platforms

All platform dates

Platform	Platform ID	State	Shutdown	Time left	Replacement	Source
Microsoft Foundryversion 2025-08-07	gpt-5-mini	Active	Feb 9, 2027	117 days	—	source

Microsoft Foundry (version 2025-08-07) retires this model 60 days after OpenAI's own API.

Read daily from each platform's own pages. The shutdown date and countdown on this page use OpenAI's own date. Time left counts to 00:00 UTC on the shutdown date, which is the evening before in ET.

Aliases pointing here: gpt-5-mini (in place when tracking began (October 7, 2026))

Price history

USD per 1M tokens, standard tier

No price history yet.

Prices

USD per 1M tokens, every type and band, by tier

No published prices.

Changelog

Changes we detected on OpenAI's pages

No changes recorded yet.

Time until shutdown

56days

11hours

25min

08sec

Counting to 7:00 pm ET on December 10, 2026, which is 00:00 UTC on December 11, 2026.

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Last checked Oct 15, 2026, 2:00 am ET · Sources: OpenAI deprecations, OpenAI pricing, OpenAI models