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R1 0528 vs GPT-5 Mini

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Winner summary

GPT-5 Mini wins 10 of 12 shared benchmarks. Leads in reasoning · language · math.

Category leads
reasoning·GPT-5 Miniknowledge·R1 0528language·GPT-5 Minimath·GPT-5 Minicoding·GPT-5 Mini
Hype vs Reality
R1 0528
#57 by perf·#14 by attention
UNDERRATED
GPT-5 Mini
#108 by perf·#4 by attention
DESERVED
Best value
1.0x better value than R1 0528
R1 0528
43.7 pts/$
$1.32/M
GPT-5 Mini
45.8 pts/$
$1.13/M
Vendor risk
One or more vendors flagged
DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
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OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
R1 0528GPT-5 Mini
ARC-AGI
GPT-5 Mini leads by +33.1
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
R1 0528
21.2
GPT-5 Mini
54.3
ARC-AGI-2
GPT-5 Mini leads by +3.3
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
R1 0528
1.1
GPT-5 Mini
4.4
GPQA diamond
R1 0528 leads by +1.8
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
R1 0528
68.4
GPT-5 Mini
66.7
HELM · GPQA
GPT-5 Mini leads by +9.0
R1 0528
66.6
GPT-5 Mini
75.6
HELM · IFEval
GPT-5 Mini leads by +14.3
R1 0528
78.4
GPT-5 Mini
92.7
HELM · MMLU-Pro
GPT-5 Mini leads by +4.2
R1 0528
79.3
GPT-5 Mini
83.5
HELM · Omni-MATH
GPT-5 Mini leads by +29.8
R1 0528
42.4
GPT-5 Mini
72.2
HELM · WildBench
GPT-5 Mini leads by +2.7
R1 0528
82.8
GPT-5 Mini
85.5
MATH level 5
GPT-5 Mini leads by +1.2
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
R1 0528
96.6
GPT-5 Mini
97.8
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
GPT-5 Mini leads by +20.3
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
R1 0528
66.4
GPT-5 Mini
86.7
SimpleQA Verified
R1 0528 leads by +5.8
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
R1 0528
27.4
GPT-5 Mini
21.6
WeirdML
GPT-5 Mini leads by +11.0
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
R1 0528
41.6
GPT-5 Mini
52.7
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkR1 0528GPT-5 Mini
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
21.254.3
ARC-AGI-2
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
1.14.4
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
68.466.7
HELM · GPQA
66.675.6
HELM · IFEval
78.492.7
HELM · MMLU-Pro
79.383.5
HELM · Omni-MATH
42.472.2
HELM · WildBench
82.885.5
MATH level 5
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
96.697.8
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
66.486.7
SimpleQA Verified
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
27.421.6
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
41.652.7
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
DeepSeek logoR1 0528$0.50$2.15164K tokens (~82 books)$9.13
OpenAI logoGPT-5 Mini$0.25$2.00400K tokens (~200 books)$6.88