Using GPT-5 Mini on Replicate API

Implementation guide · GPT-5 · OpenAI

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Replicate API exposes GPT-5 Mini through model ID openai/gpt-5-mini. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

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Quick Start

1
Create an account at Replicate API and generate an API key.
2
Use the Replicate API SDK or REST API to call openai/gpt-5-mini — see the documentation for request format.
3
You'll be billed $0.25/1M input, $2.00/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

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Code Examples

Install

pip install replicate

API key

REPLICATE_API_TOKEN

Model ID

openai/gpt-5-mini

Replicate uses "owner/model-name" format (e.g. "meta/meta-llama-3-8b-instruct") for the latest version, or "owner/model-name:version-sha" to pin to a specific version. The REST endpoint splits owner and model-name into the path: /v1/models/{owner}/{model-name}/predictions.

import replicate

# reads REPLICATE_API_TOKEN from env
# openai/gpt-5-mini format: "owner/model-name" (latest version) or "owner/model-name:version-hash"
output = replicate.run(
    "openai/gpt-5-mini",
    input={"prompt": "Hello"}
)
# Output is a list or generator depending on the model
print("".join(output))

Pricing on Replicate API

Type	Price (per 1M)
Input tokens	$0.25
Output tokens	$2.00

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalReasoningJSON / Tool useStructured OutputsCode ExecutionPrompt CachingBatch API

About GPT-5 Mini

Near-frontier intelligence for cost-sensitive, low-latency, high-volume workloads. Released August 2025. Replaces o4-mini (shutting down Oct 2026).

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Model Specs

Released2025-08-07

Context400k

ArchitectureDecoder Only

Knowledge cutoff2024-05

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