GPT-5 Mini API: toman pricing and code
openai/gpt-5-mini
visiontoolsreasoningjsonfilesYou are billed for the usage the request actually reported. Prices follow the market. Cached input: 7,253 toman / 1M. Web search: 2,901.25 toman / request.Pricing and top-ups
GPT-5 Mini example: reading an image into JSON
The example is picked from this model's own capabilities. Drop in your key and it runs as is.
# tip: a data URI works too — base64 the file and prefix it with data:image/jpeg;base64,
curl https://api.uttapen.ir/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer sk-up-…" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "openai/gpt-5-mini",
"messages": [{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{"type": "text", "text": "Return only the invoice number and the total, as JSON."},
{"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": "https://example.com/factor.jpg"}}
]
}]
}'import base64, json
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.uttapen.ir/v1", api_key="sk-up-…")
img = base64.b64encode(open("factor.jpg", "rb").read()).decode()
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
model="openai/gpt-5-mini",
messages=[{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{"type": "text", "text": "Return the invoice number, the date and the total as JSON."},
{"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": f"data:image/jpeg;base64,{img}"}},
],
}],
response_format={"type": "json_object"},
)
print(json.loads(resp.choices[0].message.content))import OpenAI from "openai";
import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
const client = new OpenAI({ baseURL: "https://api.uttapen.ir/v1", apiKey: "sk-up-…" });
const img = readFileSync("factor.jpg").toString("base64");
const resp = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "openai/gpt-5-mini",
messages: [{
role: "user",
content: [
{ type: "text", text: "Return the invoice number, the date and the total as JSON." },
{ type: "image_url", image_url: { url: `data:image/jpeg;base64,${img}` } },
],
}],
response_format: { type: "json_object" },
});
console.log(JSON.parse(resp.choices[0].message.content));What is GPT-5 Mini good for?
GPT-5 Mini is one of OpenAI's models. Put "openai/gpt-5-mini" in the model field and the rest of your code stays as it is. GPT-5 Mini keeps 400,000 tokens in view at once, and that number is what caps the conversation history in your product. A single response can run to 128,000 tokens. On price it sits in the "cheap" band — cheaper than 200 and dearer than 206 of the other paid models in the catalogue.
What it can do beyond plain text: it reads images directly, which makes it a real option for invoices, forms and screenshots; it takes files such as PDFs as input; it supports tool calling, so it can invoke your own functions with valid arguments; it returns schema-valid JSON through response_format, ready to hand to your code; it has a reasoning mode that pays off on multi-step problems, maths and debugging. All of it works through the standard parameters of the official OpenAI SDK — no custom client, no wrapper. Keep in mind that reasoning tokens are output tokens and do appear on the bill.
Pricing is 72,531 toman per 1M input tokens and 580,250 per 1M output tokens. A 1,000-word round trip on GPT-5 Mini lands near 849 toman. It supports cached input: repeated context is billed at 7,253 toman per 1M, which matters a lot if your system prompt is long. You are always charged for the usage the request actually reported, never for the estimate, and a failed request costs nothing.
The closest alternative with the same capabilities from a different provider is Seed 1.6: GPT-5 Mini works out roughly 1× more expensive, and its context window is larger. Both run on the same key and the same code, so trying the other one is a single string change.
To make the figure concrete: 100,000 toman of credit buys roughly 118 thousand-word requests on GPT-5 Mini, and every 1,000 toman is about 1,178 words of round trip. A job with one million input tokens and one million output tokens comes to 652,781 toman in total. Filling this model's 400,000-token window costs 29,013 toman on the input side alone, which is the real reason to keep conversation history short.
This id gets confused with "openai/gpt-5-mini:batch", because the underlying model is the same. The difference is the suffix: no suffix (the standard variant) against "batch". On a thousand-word request this variant works out 2× dearer (849 against 424 toman). On parameters, this one takes max_completion_tokens.
OpenAI has 95 models in our catalogue; the cheapest is gpt-oss-20b at 60 toman per thousand words and the dearest o1-pro at 282,872. Among the less common parameters it accepts max_completion_tokens, reasoning_effort — all through the standard request body. It does not support temperature, top_p, which most models here do, so test before switching if your code relies on them. By context size the nearest option from another provider is Nova Lite 1.0 at 300,000 tokens.
Good fits: high-volume work such as classification, tagging and bulk summarising, logic puzzles and code review, pulling text and fields out of images, agents that reach out to APIs and databases, extracting data against a fixed schema, analysing a long document or codebase in one request.
GPT-5 Mini is a compact version of GPT-5, designed to handle lighter-weight reasoning tasks. It provides the same instruction-following and safety-tuning benefits as GPT-5, but with reduced latency and cost....
Three real jobs, priced on this model
Each figure is derived from the prices above and moves when they do.
| Job | Tokens | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| One chat turn with a medium history | 1,500 in + 400 out | 341 toman |
| Summarising a ten-page document | 4,000 in + 600 out | 638 toman |
| Classifying a thousand short rows | 120,000 in + 20,000 out | 20,309 toman |
Other variants of this model
Same core model, different execution terms and different price. This page is the standard variant.
| Variant | Model id | Output / 1M | Context |
|---|---|---|---|
| batch (cheaper, slower) | openai/gpt-5-mini:batch | 290,125 | 400,000 |
Put the variant's id verbatim in the model field; nothing else in your code changes.
Frequently asked
- How do I call GPT-5 Mini from Iran?
- Sign up with your mobile number, top the wallet up in toman, create an API key, then in the official OpenAI SDK point base_url at https://api.uttapen.ir/v1 and set model to "openai/gpt-5-mini". Nothing else in your code changes.
- What does GPT-5 Mini cost in toman?
- 72,531 toman per 1M input tokens and 580,250 toman per 1M output tokens; a 1,000-word request is around 849 toman. You pay for the usage that request actually reported, and a failed request costs nothing.
- How much input does GPT-5 Mini take?
- Up to 400,000 tokens per request, roughly 300k words. A single answer can reach 128,000 tokens.
- Does GPT-5 Mini support streaming and tool calling?
- Streaming (stream=true) works on every model here. This one supports tool calling in the standard OpenAI shape. Image input is accepted through image_url, as a data URI or a public URL. Structured output through response_format works too.