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.
ByteDance
UI-TARS-2, released by ByteDance in September 2025, is a major generational upgrade of the UI-TARS family of GUI interaction models, with enhanced capabilities across computer control, game environments, code generation, and tool use. It targets agentic workflows requiring robust multimodal understanding of graphical interfaces across diverse application domains.
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GPT-5 Mini
OpenAI
2025-08
UI-TARS-2
ByteDance
2025-09-04
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-5 Mini
OpenAI
UI-TARS-2
GPT-5 Mini
UI-TARS-2
GPT-5 Mini
UI-TARS-2