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Every host for GPT-5 Mini

×2.0 between cheapest and dearest input
HostBlendedInputOutputCachedPrecisionUptime
OpenAI
$0.344
$0.125$1.00$0.013—100.0%
Azure
$0.688
$0.25$2.00$0.03—100.0%
Perplexity
$0.688
$0.25$2.00$0.025——
Replicate
$0.688
$0.25$2.00———
Blended price: three input tokens for every output token, per 1M tokens.

Cheapest price over time

Per 1M tokens
Cheapest input and output price for GPT-5 Mini over timeFree$0.50$1.00$1.50$2.00Aug 2025Mar 2026Oct 2026$1.00$0.125
  • Input
  • Output
The cheapest list price at any host on each day it changed.

What your workload costs

A month, at every host
Cheapest a month
$137.50
OpenAI
  • OpenAI
    $137.50
  • Azure
    $275.00
  • Perplexity
    $275.00
  • Replicate
    $275.00

Rent GPUs or pay per token?

Break-even
Renting the GPUs
$16,878/mo
Break-even volume
49.1B tokens/mo
Needed around the clock
18.7K tok/s

8 × H100 cost $16,878 a month. The cheapest API (OpenAI) charges $0.344 per 1M blended tokens, so the GPUs only pay off above 49.1B tokens a month: the box must serve 18.7K tokens a second, every second.

GPU price: cheapest on-demand offer per GPU-hour × 730 hours. No throughput is assumed: it depends on the model size, precision, batch size and serving software, so measure yours. Power, storage, egress and engineering time are not included.

LMArena rating over time

Text leaderboard
LMArena text rating of GPT-5 Mini over time1,3701,3721,3741,3761,378Aug 2025Mar 2026Oct 20261,373

Rated about the same, by price

Blended, per 1M tokens

Quality data: LMArena (CC BY 4.0), Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0). Prices: OpenRouter, LiteLLM (MIT), provider pages. List prices in US dollars before discounts and taxes; other currencies converted at the European Central Bank reference rate. The figures on these pages are free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with a link to this page.