Great price-performance
★ 5Strong for coding assistant traffic with clear budget controls.
OPOpenAI GPT-5 Mini (OpenRouter)
High-context multimodal model routed via OpenRouter with cost-efficient pricing for builder workloads.
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Risk: watchlist
Best for
- • General coding assistants, high-context workflows, and multimodal RAG.
Limitations
- • Final commercial and safety requirements depend on provider policy and deployment setup.
- • High-context prompts require strict prompt budgeting for cost control.
Use carefully when
- • Fully offline inference requirements.
Quickstart
- Use OpenRouter chat completion endpoint and set strict max output tokens.
- Route simple tasks to mini tier and reserve larger models for hard reasoning.
Setup checklist
- • API key required: Yes
- • SDK quality: high
- • Self-host difficulty: easy
Pricing (USD)
- • Input / 1M: $0.25
- • Output / 1M: $2.00
- • Monthly: -
Usage notes
- • Validate on your own benchmark slices before rollout.
- • Pin version/provider routes for reproducible outputs.
- • Add logging + fallback routes for high-volume workloads.
Risk Assessment
- • Risk signal: prompt-injection
Capabilities
- contextTokens400000
- supportsImageInputtrue
- supportsFileInputtrue
- toolCallingtrue
Benchmarks
contextWindowTokens
400000
inputCostPerMUsd
0.25
outputCostPerMUsd
2
inputModalitiesCount
3
Community reviews
1 reviews • avg 5
Samples
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