OpenAI GPT-5 Mini

helicone/gpt-5-mini · family gpt-mini · price provider-declared (via models.dev), USD per 1M tokens. Capabilities: toolstextimage.

$0.69Blended $/1M (3:1)

$0.25Input $/1M

$2Output $/1M

$2.251M in + 1M out

$0.024999999999999998 −90%Cache read $/1M

#2640 of 5,000Cheapest rank

Provider: Helicone (helicone)
Context: 400,000 tokens
Max output: 128,000 tokens
Capabilities: toolstextimage

Same model, other providers

“OpenAI GPT-5 Mini” is offered by 2 providers — cheapest-effective first. This one (Helicone) is the cheapest.

Provider	Input	Output	Blended	Context
Helicone (this)	$0.25	$2	$0.69	400k
DigitalOcean	$0.25	$2	$0.69	400k

Call it

jishie indexes & prices models; it does not proxy inference. Most providers are OpenAI-compatible — point base_url at Helicone and pass this model id:

curl $BASE_URL/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"gpt-5-mini","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}]}'

Route programmatically with MCP find_model / get_model, or fetch this record free (no wallet):