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Vision-language
GPT-5 mini
- Released
- 7 Aug 2025
- Status
- Deprecated
- Retired
- 11 Dec 2026
- Context
- 400K
- Max output
- 128K
- Input per 1M tokens
- $0.25
- Output per 1M tokens
- $2.00
- Open weights
- No
- License
- proprietary
- Parameters
- —
- Knowledge cutoff
- 31 May 2024
- Reasoning
- Yes
- Modalities
- text, image → text
Category scores
Out of 100, from independent and third-party results only, by method category-2026-09-29.1.
| Category | Score | Rank | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knowledge & reasoning | 33.3 | 47 | 2 of 4 |
| Vision & multimodal understanding | 10.3 | Not ranked | 1 of 3 |
| Factuality & hallucination | 21.6 | 57 | 1 of 1 |
| Human preference | 35.4 | Not ranked | 2 of 5 |
Benchmark results
Every result we hold for this model, with who ran it and where it was published.
Knowledge & reasoning
| Benchmark | Metric | Value | Provenance | Setting | Evaluated | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | Puzzles solved | 30.0% | Independent | high | 7 Aug 2026 | Epoch AI |
| Chess Puzzles | Puzzles solved | 12.0% | Independent | low | 7 Aug 2026 | Epoch AI |
| Chess Puzzles | Puzzles solved | 7.0% | Independent | minimal | 7 Aug 2026 | Epoch AI |
| DTBench (Decision Theory Benchmark) | Accuracy (capability questions) | 80.5% | Third party | high | — | https://conceptualreasoning.ai/dtbench via Epoch AI |
| LMCA (Language Model Conceptual Argumentation) | Correlation with expert ratings (Pearson r) | 0.342 | Third party | high | — | https://conceptualreasoning.ai/lmca via Epoch AI |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | Puzzles solved | 10.0% | Independent | minimal | 27 Aug 2026 | Epoch AI |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | Puzzles solved | 5.0% | Independent | high | 27 Aug 2026 | Epoch AI |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | Puzzles solved | 4.0% | Independent | medium | 27 Aug 2026 | Epoch AI |
Scientific reasoning
| Benchmark | Metric | Value | Provenance | Setting | Evaluated | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | Accuracy | 75.0% | Independent | high | 30 Oct 2025 | Epoch AI |
| GPQA Diamond | Accuracy | 71.7% | Independent | minimal | 7 Aug 2026 | Epoch AI |
| GPQA Diamond | Accuracy | 71.7% | Independent | medium | 7 Aug 2025 | Epoch AI |
Mathematics
| Benchmark | Metric | Value | Provenance | Setting | Evaluated | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | Accuracy | 12.2% | Independent | high | 12 Jun 2026 | Epoch AI |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | Accuracy | 6.3% | Independent | high | 30 Oct 2025 | Epoch AI |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | Accuracy | 4.2% | Independent | medium | 7 Aug 2025 | Epoch AI |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 | Accuracy | 46.7% | Independent | high | 12 Jun 2026 | Epoch AI |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 | Accuracy | 18.2% | Independent | low | 27 Aug 2026 | Epoch AI |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 | Accuracy | 6.0% | Independent | minimal | 27 Aug 2026 | Epoch AI |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (v1) | Accuracy | 27.2% | Independent | high | 13 Nov 2025 | Epoch AI |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (v1) | Accuracy | 20.3% | Independent | medium | 13 Nov 2025 | Epoch AI |
| MATH Level 5 | Accuracy | 97.8% | Independent | high | 30 Oct 2025 | Epoch AI |
| MATH Level 5 | Accuracy | 96.8% | Independent | medium | 20 Aug 2025 | Epoch AI |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | Accuracy | 86.7% | Independent | high | 30 Oct 2025 | Epoch AI |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | Accuracy | 78.3% | Independent | medium | 7 Aug 2025 | Epoch AI |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | Accuracy | 55.6% | Independent | minimal | 7 Aug 2026 | Epoch AI |
Coding & software engineering
| Benchmark | Metric | Value | Provenance | Setting | Evaluated | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | % resolved | 64.7% | Independent | medium | 1 Feb 2026 | Epoch AI |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Accuracy (mean over trials) | 34.8% | Third party | unknown | — | https://www.tbench.ai/leaderboard/terminal-bench/2.0 via Epoch AI |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Accuracy (mean over trials) | 31.9% | Third party | medium | — | Terminal-Bench v2 Leaderboard via Epoch AI |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Accuracy (mean over trials) | 31.9% | Third party | unknown | — | https://www.tbench.ai/leaderboard/terminal-bench/2.0 via Epoch AI |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Accuracy (mean over trials) | 29.2% | Third party | unknown | — | https://www.tbench.ai/leaderboard/terminal-bench/2.0 via Epoch AI |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Accuracy (mean over trials) | 29.2% | Third party | medium | — | Terminal-Bench v2 Leaderboard via Epoch AI |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Accuracy (mean over trials) | 24.0% | Third party | unknown | — | https://www.tbench.ai/leaderboard/terminal-bench/2.0 via Epoch AI |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Accuracy (mean over trials) | 24.0% | Third party | medium | — | Terminal-Bench v2 Leaderboard via Epoch AI |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Accuracy (mean over trials) | 22.2% | Third party | unknown | — | https://www.tbench.ai/leaderboard/terminal-bench/2.0 via Epoch AI |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Accuracy (mean over trials) | 22.2% | Third party | medium | — | Terminal-Bench v2 Leaderboard via Epoch AI |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Accuracy (mean over trials) | 34.8% | Source not stated | unknown | — | Epoch AI via Epoch AI |
| WeirdML (v2) | Average accuracy | 52.7% | Third party | high | — | https://htihle.github.io/weirdml.html via Epoch AI |
Long context
| Benchmark | Metric | Value | Provenance | Setting | Evaluated | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | % correct at 16K tokens (Epoch's column) | 69.4% | Third party | medium | — | Fiction.live leaderboard via Epoch AI |
Vision & multimodal understanding
| Benchmark | Metric | Value | Provenance | Setting | Evaluated | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Physics Comprehension Test (VPCT) | Correct | 40.2% | Third party | medium | — | VPCT leaderboard via Epoch AI |
| Visual Physics Comprehension Test (VPCT) | Correct | 39.0% | Third party | high | — | VPCT leaderboard via Epoch AI |
Factuality & hallucination
| Benchmark | Metric | Value | Provenance | Setting | Evaluated | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SimpleQA Verified | Accuracy (% correct) | 21.6% | Independent | high | 10 Aug 2026 | Epoch AI |
Writing
| Benchmark | Metric | Value | Provenance | Setting | Evaluated | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LLM Creative Story-Writing Benchmark V1 (Lech Mazur) | Mean rubric score (percent of the 10-point scale) | 83.1% | Third party | medium | — | lechmazur/writing Github repository via Epoch AI |
Human preference
| Benchmark | Metric | Value | Provenance | Setting | Evaluated | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text Arena (arena.ai) | Arena score (Elo scale) | 1390 | Independent | high | 25 Sep 2026 | Arena |
| Text Arena (arena.ai) | Votes | 26641 | Independent | high | 25 Sep 2026 | Arena |
| Vision Arena (arena.ai) | Arena score (Elo scale) | 1183 | Independent | high | 28 Sep 2026 | Arena |
| Vision Arena (arena.ai) | Votes | 28971 | Independent | high | 28 Sep 2026 | Arena |
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- GPT-5.5 Pro23 Apr 2026
- GPT-5.4 mini17 Mar 2026
- GPT-5.4 nano17 Mar 2026
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- GPT-5.3 Instant (gpt-5.3-chat-latest)3 Mar 2026
- GPT-5.211 Dec 2025
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- GPT-5.1 Instant (gpt-5.1-chat-latest)12 Nov 2025
- GPT-57 Aug 2025
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- GPT-5 nano7 Aug 2025
- GPT-5 Pro7 Aug 2025
- GPT-5.4 Cyber—
- GPT-5.5 Cyber—