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gpt-5-4-mini is the small-mid GPT-5. It keeps the GPT-5 reasoning capability but at roughly one-third the per-token cost of gpt-5-4. The right default for high-volume traffic where you want better-than-Haiku quality without paying flagship rates. Pricing: 0.75/1Minput,0.75 / 1M input, 4.50 / 1M output, $0.075 / 1M cache read — see the rate card.

Protocols

Quickstart

Capabilities

When to use

  • High-volume classification, routing, structured extraction — anywhere you’d use Haiku for cost but want GPT-flavored reasoning.
  • Short-prompt agent loops — tool-use chains where each step is small and the gate is throughput.
  • Cheaper Codex-style via Responses API at reasoning_effort: "low".
When not to use:
  • Hard reasoning that benefits from reasoning_effort: "high" — go to gpt-5-4 or gpt-5-5.
  • Web search needed — only gpt-5-4 and up have it.

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