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OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini

OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini is openai's model. On the un-leaked meo benchmark it ranks #26 of 82 with 66.9% accuracy and an Effective Value (𝕍) of 0.0106 β€” earning a correct answer for about $0.0102 in 58s each.

as of 2026-10-18

meo rank
#26
of 82
Accuracy
66.9%
overall
𝕍 index (top=100)
0.25
raw 𝕍 0.0106 Β· N=10
$ / correct
$0.0102
58s each

Per-domain accuracy

167 correct of 250 questions asked across 11 domains Β· answer rate 100% Β· macro accuracy 76.2%. Headline accuracy is micro-averaged per meo’s methodology; per-domain question counts (correct/asked) are shown so you can judge significance.

Tape machine
100%15/15
Theory of mind
100%3/3
Regex automaton
100%16/16
CSP (unsatisfiable)
94%15/16
Logic / math / CS
79%27/34
Base-rate bias
68%28/41
Framework bias
67%2/3
Perceptual illusions
52%53/102
Watson-Glaser
50%2/4
Long arithmetic
40%6/15
State tracking
0%0/1

Efficiency

Cost per correct
$0.0102
Seconds per correct
58
Tokens per correct
5,039
Correct answers
167 / 250
Total benchmark cost
$1.70
Avg tokens / item
3,366

Aggregated third-party benchmarks

Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai). Redistribution requires an AA commercial license.

Model details

Released
2025-08-07
Weights
β€”
Context
400K
Max output
128K
Knowledge cutoff
2024-05-31
Price in
$0.25/M
Price out
$2.00/M
Modality
text+image+file->text

Sources: openrouter Β· artificial_analysis Β· meo

FAQ

How accurate is OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini?

OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini scores 66.9% overall on the meo benchmark (rank #26 of 82), an un-leaked private holdout graded objective-first.

What is OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini's Effective Value?

Its Effective Value (𝕍) is 0.0106 at N=10, Ο‰=1, Ξ΄=1.5 β€” a fused metric of accuracy, speed, cost, and error-cascade. 𝕍 rankings shift with task depth.

How much does OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini cost per correct answer?

About $0.0102 per correct answer (5,039 tokens, 58 seconds each) at benchmark-time pricing via OpenRouter.

Is OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini open weights?

Open-weights status for OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini is not recorded.

Benchmark updates affecting this model

  • 2026-06-09majorRoster expansion: +50 vision models (leaderboard 23 β†’ 73)

    Added 50 vision-capable (image+text) models across 14 labs β€” the free tier plus the low-cost tier (Qwen, Mistral, Meta-Llama, OpenAI, Google, ByteDance, Baidu, Amazon, Perplexity, MiniMax, z-ai, NVIDIA, Moonshot, Anthropic) β€” benchmarked over the holdout under the standard protocol (max reasoning, temperature 1). Six candidates were dropped: a 16K-context model that cannot hold the reasoning budget, four deprecated near-duplicates of models already in the roster, and one whose output truncates before concluding.

  • 2026-06-09majorlogic_math_cs ground truth was broken β€” culled and rebuilt with solver-verified items

    A 5-lab frontier jury revealed that 29 of 37 LLM-authored logic_math_cs items had broken ground truth: on most, five independent frontier models unanimously concluded the clue sets were contradictory while the stored answer claimed a number, and on eight, all five agreed on the SAME different number (author arithmetic errors). Models were being marked wrong for being right. The 29 were retired (full audit published in the repo) and the domain rebuilt with generator-as-oracle items: an embedded constraint solver PROVES each puzzle has exactly one solution (or provably none), verified by an independent exhaustive enumerator. A 3-round difficulty study found frontier models saturate consistent human-scale logic puzzles, so items use anonymous global constraints and carry a measured difficulty gradient.

  • 2026-06-08majorCorrected base_bias grading (LLM-equivalence judge fix)

    The LLM-equivalence grader uses a reasoning model whose verdict token budget was too small, so its YES/NO answer was emitted as empty and silently counted as a failure. This understated the base_bias domain to ~7% for every model when the true accuracy is ~85-90%. We raised the judge budget, excluded its reasoning tokens from the verdict, switched to verbosity-robust conclusion matching, and re-graded the whole board.

Full benchmark changelog β†’

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