Side-by-side comparison

Pick up to 4 models. Differences are what matter for picking.

Models
Spec
OpenAI
GPT-5 mini
Verified 2026-04-15
DescriptionSmaller, cheaper GPT-5 with most of the reasoning quality.
Released2025-08-07
Knowledge cutoff2024-09
Context window400K
Max output128K
Input $/1M$0.250
Output $/1M$2.00
Speed tierFast
Reasoning4/5
Coding4/5
Multilingual4/5
Modalities in
Text
Vision
Modalities out
Text
Tool useYes
JSON modeYes
Open weightsNo
Best use cases
Chat
Rag
Structured Output
Summarization
Coding
Best personas
Startup
Developer Tools
Consumer
Weak at
  • · frontier math
  • · very long agentic chains
Compliance
HIPAA-eligibleSOC 2GDPRISO 27001FedRAMP
Data policy
Sources
Tip: hop over to the Recommender to describe a problem and have AI suggest the best fit from this dataset.