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For image-only workloads, use openai/gpt-image-1-mini to call OpenAI's Images API directly without LLM overhead.

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OpenAI: GPT-5 Image Mini

openai/gpt-5-image-mini

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GPT-5 Image Mini combines OpenAI's advanced language capabilities, powered by GPT-5 MiniOpens in new tab, with GPT Image 1 Mini for efficient image generation. This natively multimodal model features superior instruction following, text rendering, and detailed image editing with reduced latency and cost. It excels at high-quality visual creation while maintaining strong text understanding, making it ideal for applications that require both efficient image generation and text processing at scale.

Modalities
In / Out Price
$2.50 / $8per 1M
Context
400K
Released
Oct 16, 2025
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Playground

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations and this model’s own outputs on shared benchmark prompts. Higher percentages are better — and each rank shows where this model lands among the models evaluated on that source.

Benchmark score summary for OpenAI: GPT-5 Image Mini (Artificial Analysis and Design Arena)
SourceBenchmarkScore
Artificial AnalysisGPT Image 1 Mini (medium) Elo936
Design ArenaGPT-Image-1 Mini Models Arena Graphic Design Elo1165
Design ArenaGPT-Image-1 Mini Models Arena Image Elo1181
Design ArenaGPT-Image-1 Mini Models Arena Logo Elo1209

Providers

This model is hosted by one provider. OpenRouter forwards every request to it directly — no routing decisions to make.

Pricing

The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.

Performance

Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Apps

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.

Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

API

Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.

Not currently available through EU in-region routing. In-region routing docs

Documentation

Guides, cookbooks, blog posts, and tools for building with OpenAI: GPT-5 Image Mini on OpenRouter.

  • GPT-5 is now live Blog post

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When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and provider routing options.

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Frequently asked questions

GPT-5 Image Mini combines OpenAI's advanced language capabilities, powered by GPT-5 Mini, with GPT Image 1 Mini for efficient image generation. This natively multimodal model features superior instruction following, text rendering, and detailed image editing with reduced latency and cost.

The GPT-5 Image Mini documentation on OpenRouter includes the GPT-5 is now live blog post. The quickstart covers API keys and your first request, and the API reference lists every parameter.

GPT-5 Image Mini costs $2.50/M input tokens and $2.00/M output tokens, with separate rates for Cache Read at $0.25/M tokens, Image Output at $8.00/M tokens, and Web Search at $10.00/1K calls.

GPT-5 Image Mini has a 400,000 token context window. It supports up to 128,000 completion tokens.

No. GPT-5 Image Mini does not accept tools, so function calling is unavailable. It also supports structured outputs via a JSON schema in response_format.

GPT-5 Image Mini accepts files such as PDFs, images, and text as input and returns images and text. Up to 16 reference images can be attached to one request for image editing.

GPT-6.1 Terra Pro, GPT-6.1 Terra, GPT-6 Luna Decisions and 62 more are other text models from OpenAI.

GPT-5 Image Mini was released on October 16, 2025.