ChatGPT-4o (March 2025) vs GPT-5 Mini
Compare ChatGPT-4o (March 2025) and GPT-5 Mini, both from OpenAI, in 7 community votes, gpt-5 mini wins 80% of head-to-head duels, tested across 32 shared challenges.
Image Generation: GPT-5 Mini wins 100% of votes
Our Verdict
GPT-5 MiniWinner
ChatGPT-4o (March 2025)Runner-up
Pick GPT-5 Mini. In 7 blind votes, GPT-5 Mini wins 80% of the time. That's not luck.
GPT-5 Mini particularly excels in Image Generation. GPT-5 Mini is 7.5x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Clear winner
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
ChatGPT-4o (March 2025)
Input
$5.00
Output
$15.00
GPT-5 Mini
Input
$0.25
20× cheaper
Output
$2.00
7.5× cheaper
GPT-5 Mini is cheaper on both — 20× input, 7.5× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
39%
ChatGPT-4o (March 2025) uses 329.7x more bold
ChatGPT-4o (March 2025)
GPT-5 Mini
55%Vocabulary62%
24wSentence Length21w
0.52Hedging0.16
3.3Bold0.0
6.0Lists3.4
0.94Emoji0.00
0.63Headings0.00
0.05Transitions0.05
Based on 15 + 15 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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