# GPT-5 mini Review & Benchmarks (2026): Price, Context, Specs | Alher Tech

> GPT-5 mini by OpenAI: benchmarks, pricing, context window, strengths and use cases. Data from official benchmark sources.

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Last updated: August 10, 2026

## Specs

- **Vendor**: OpenAI
- **Released**: August 7, 2025
- **Context window**: 400K tokens
- **Input**: $0.25 / M tokens
- **Output**: $2 / M tokens

## Benchmarks

- **mmlu**: 82.4
- **gpqa**: 50.1
- **humanEval**: 81
- **arenaElo**: 1288
- **sweBench**: 50
- **sweBenchPro**: 40
- **liveCodeBench**: 65
- **aiderPolyglot**: 64
- **terminalBench**: 33
- **mmluPro**: 74
- **hle**: 12
- **aime**: 78
- **math500**: 90
- **mmmu**: 68

## Strengths

- Great price-to-performance
- Fast latency
- Works well with tool calling

## Weaknesses

- Not for deep reasoning
- Smaller effective context than GPT-5

## Best for

- High-traffic chat UX
- Intent classification
- Content generation at scale

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