OpenAI
GPT-5.2 Mini
Released Jan 15, 2026 · 312B tokens this week · 2 providers
Overview
A cost-reduced GPT-5.2 that keeps most of the reasoning quality for a fraction of the price. Well suited to high-volume classification, extraction and everyday chat. Exposes the same tool-calling interface as the flagship, so swapping between them is a one-line change.
Providers
Reference data — not yet measured from live traffic
| PROVIDER | MAX OUT | OUTPUT /M | QUANT | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
OpenAICheapest | 400K | 128K | $0.30 | $2.40 | 208ms | 140 | 99.93% | Full |
Azure AI Foundry | 400K | 128K | $0.32 | $2.54 | 520ms | 118 | 99.76% | Full |
Latency p50 reflects a provider’s API endpoint responsiveness — the round-trip to its API, not per-token inference time. These figures, with throughput and uptime, are reference data until the gateway aggregates its own traffic.
Price comparison
Blended $ per 1M tokens
Blended rate per 1M tokens, weighted one part prompt to three parts completion — roughly the shape of a chat workload. Your mix will move the number.
Call it
OpenAI-compatible — swap the base URL and go
curl https://model.cards/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $MODELCARDS_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "openai/gpt-5.2-mini",
"messages": [
{ "role": "user", "content": "Summarize the tradeoffs of speculative decoding." }
]
}'