GPT Image 1 Mini
- Family
- GPT Image
- Released
- 2025-10-06
- Lifecycle
- Scheduled retirement: December 1, 2026
- Architecture
- Autoregressive Image
- Specialization
- image-generation
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryRestricted
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Pretrained
Cheapest of 2 routes · Vercel AI Gateway · cache read $0.200
About
GPT Image 1 Mini is OpenAI's cost-efficient image generation model, released at OpenAI DevDay 2025 on October 6, 2025. Approximately 80% cheaper than GPT Image 1 with per-image pricing at $0.005/$0.011/$0.036 (low/medium/high, 1024×1024). Targets high-volume, cost-sensitive API workflows. Supports the same quality tiers as the main GPT Image line.
Providers(2)
Compare all 2Compare API pricing across 2 tracked provider routes for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Cache | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vercel AI Gateway | $2.00 | $8.00 | read $0.200 | Serverless |
| OpenAI API | - | - | - | Serverless |
Available via routers & gateways(15)
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
OpenRouter
HybridUnified hybrid gateway to 500+ models from 80+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with an optional Auto Router that selects a model per prompt from market spend data.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, caching, and guardrails; MIT-licensed open-source core is self-hostable. Now part of Palo Alto Networks as Prisma AIRS AI Gateway.
AIRouter
RouterCommercial LLM router (branded "AI Router" on its site) that picks the best model per request via a Decision API or an OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions endpoint, with a private selection mode that routes on anonymized patterns; sold as BYOK subscription plans priced by routed tokens.
Helicone
GatewayObservability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache-2.0 open-source platform with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.
Kong AI Gateway
GatewayMulti-LLM AI gateway built on Kong Gateway 3.x, adding semantic routing, load balancing, guardrails, and MCP traffic analytics as plugins over Kong's existing API management platform.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Benchmark scores(2)
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Evaluation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,109 | text_to_image overall 2026-10-26Observed 2026-10-27 | Configuration: GPT-Image-1 mini Harness: LMArena blind pairwise human votes, Bradley-Terry Evaluator: LMArena Confidence: confirmed Notes: LMArena text to image leaderboard, overall category, published 2026-10-26 (HF lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset @a467e6b9, latest split). Board entry 'GPT-Image-1 mini': rank 54 of 82, Arena Score 1109.3 (95% CI 1106.1-1112.4), 170993 votes. Source: LMArena (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-27. | Source Source: LMArena (lmarena.ai), CC BY 4.0 | |
| 1,124 | image_edit overall 2026-10-06Observed 2026-10-06 | Configuration: Overall leaderboard entry (unqualified board entry) Harness: LMArena blind pairwise human votes, Bradley-Terry Evaluator: LMArena Confidence: confirmed Notes: Arena score 1124 (95% CI 1121-1127), 682,914 votes, rank 56 of 59, category overall, leaderboard published 2026-10-06. Board entry 'gpt-image-1-mini'. Source: LMArena (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-17. | Source Source: LMArena (lmarena.ai), CC BY 4.0 |
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Cheapest of 2 routes · Vercel AI Gateway · cache read $0.200