gpt-5-mini

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About this model

Key model capabilities

• A lightweight version for cost-sensitive applications.
• Now supporting minimal reasoning, a new verbosity setting, and the "customs" tool for raw text output.
• Supports new "allowed tools" tool choice that enables you to specify multiple tools in the tool choice instead of just one
• supports new "preamble" support, allowing the model to "think" before calling a tool. This is always enabled and controlled through prompting.
• gpt-5-mini supports multimodal inputs, real-time streaming and full tool support for smarter, more dynamic user experiences