gpt-5-mini shuts down on 2026-12-11 per OpenAI's deprecation page (checked 2026-10-24). The official replacement is gpt-5.6-terra. On the labeled example of 10 million input tokens and 2 million output tokens, gpt-5.6-terra costs $25 a month, higher than $6.5 for gpt-5-mini.
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| Announced | 2026-06-11 |
|---|---|
| Deprecated | Not published |
| Shutdown | 2026-12-11 |
| Kind | exact |
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| Input price / 1M | $0.25 · source, checked 2026-10-24 |
|---|---|
| Output price / 1M | $2 · source, checked 2026-10-24 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.025 · source, checked 2026-10-24 |
| Context window | 400,000 · source, checked 2026-10-24 |
| Max output | 128,000 · source, checked 2026-10-24 |
| Reasoning | Not published |
| Vision | Not published |
| Tools | Not published |
gpt-5-mini shuts down on 2026-12-11 per OpenAI's deprecation page (checked 2026-10-24). The official replacement is gpt-5.6-terra. On the labeled example of 10 million input tokens and 2 million output tokens, gpt-5.6-terra costs $25 a month, higher than $6.5 for gpt-5-mini.
The official replacement is gpt-5.6-terra.
gpt-5-mini status is deprecated.
Dec 11, 2026 | gpt-5-mini | gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 | gpt-5.6-terra
Model ID: gpt-5-mini | context window 400000 | max output 128000 | input $0.25 | output $2