Compare / head-to-head
GPT-5 minivsSonar
GPT-5 mini and Sonar do not yet share a public benchmark, so quality cannot be compared apples-to-apples. Sonar is 1.1x cheaper per token. GPT-5 mini has the larger context window (400K tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
0
no overlap yet
Cheaper per token
Sonar
1.1x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
GPT-5 mini
400K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
94.2446% · 100%
OpenAI · Perplexity
GPT-5 mini
OpenAI · released 2025-08-07
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
0 shared · 8 only GPT-5 mini · 1 only Sonar| Benchmark | GPT-5 mini | Sonar | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 0 | ||||
| No public benchmark is reported for both models yet. | ||||
| Only GPT-5 mini reports · 8 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 71% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 81.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| AIME 2025 | 87.5% ↗matharena ⚠ | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 12.2% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 46.7% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 86.7% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 21.6% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run) | 64.7% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| Only Sonar reports · 1 | ||||
| SimpleQA F-score | not reported | 77.3% ↗ | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is GPT-5 mini minus Sonar in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | GPT-5 mini | Sonar | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 400K tokens | 128K tokens | GPT-5 mini |
| Max output | 128K tokens | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $0.25 ↗ | $1 ↗ | GPT-5 mini |
| Output price / 1M | $2 ↗ | $1 ↗ | Sonar |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.025 ↗ | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $2.25 | $2 | Sonar |
| Modalities | text · vision | text | GPT-5 mini |
| Released | 2025-08-07 | 2025-01-21 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 9 | 1 | — |
Reliability
Provider status
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