# OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini (batch)

Provider: openai  
Category: llm  
Model ID: `openai/gpt-5-mini:batch`

GPT-5 Mini is a compact version of GPT-5, designed to handle lighter-weight reasoning tasks. It provides the same instruction-following and safety-tuning benefits as GPT-5, but with reduced latency and cost....

## Specs

- Context length: 400000 tokens
- Max output: 128000 tokens
- Modalities: text, image, file
- Released: 2025-08-07

## Pricing

- Input: $0.13 per million tokens
- Output: $1.00 per million tokens

## Verdict

GPT-5 Mini delivers OpenAI's latest reasoning architecture at batch pricing that undercuts real-time alternatives by 50%. The 400K context window handles book-length documents and multi-file codebases without chunking. Vision support covers screenshots and diagrams. Trade-off: batch-only means 24-hour turnaround, ruling out interactive workflows. Reach for this when you're processing large volumes overnight—document analysis pipelines, code review queues, or research synthesis—and cost matters more than latency.

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Last verified: 2026-09-04T02:00:56.012Z  
Canonical URL: https://switchy.build/directory/models/gpt-5-mini-batch