Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
GPT-5 mini, released by OpenAI in August 2025, is a smaller variant from the GPT-5 family that inherits GPT-5's unified reasoning architecture and multimodal capabilities at a reduced inference cost. It targets high-volume production use cases requiring a balance of intelligence and response speed, offering GPT-5 capabilities for applications where full GPT-5 inference costs are a concern.
OpenAI
GPT-5.1, released by OpenAI in November 2025, is a large language model from the GPT-5 family that delivers incremental improvements in reasoning, instruction following, and multimodal understanding over GPT-5. It features a 400K token context window and targets general-purpose development, long-context analysis, and agentic workflows.
3 months newer

GPT-5 Mini
OpenAI
2025-08

GPT-5.1
OpenAI
2025-11
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-5 Mini
OpenAI
GPT-5.1
GPT-5 Mini
GPT-5.1
GPT-5 Mini
GPT-5.1