HEAD TO HEAD

GPT 5 Mini vs Community vs Step 1 vs Discovery

Community vibe score against API price per 1M tokens. Up and left wins: loved and cheap.

4 IS THE MAX. SWAP ONE OUT TO ADD ANOTHER.

VALUE FOR MONEY

NOT ON THE CHART (NO PUBLIC API PRICE):CommunityStep 1DiscoverySTILL IN THE TABLE BELOW. THE CHART ONLY PLOTS MODELS WITH A KNOWN PRICE PER 1M TOKENS.

Metric	GPT 5 Mini x	Community x	Step 1 x	Discovery x
VIBE SCORE	5.2	7.3	7.4	7.6
VOICES	1,264	2,023	3,795	9,856
RANK	#377	#21	#11	#3
CATEGORY	Multimodal	Text	Text	Text
OPEN/CLOSED	CLOSED	CLOSED	CLOSED	OPEN WEIGHTS
PRICE IN (per 1M)	$0.25 / 1M	N/A	N/A	N/A
PRICE OUT (per 1M)	$2.00 / 1M	N/A	N/A	N/A
THE CROWD LOVES	People feel it is worth the money	Popular for coding help	Popular for coding help	Popular for coding help
THE CROWD GRUMBLES	Outages, errors, or limits get in the way	People find it expensive	Sometimes makes things up	Outages, errors, or limits get in the way

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HEAD TO HEAD

GPT 5 Mini vs Community vs Step 1 vs Discovery

Community vibe score against API price per 1M tokens. Up and left wins: loved and cheap.

4 IS THE MAX. SWAP ONE OUT TO ADD ANOTHER.

VALUE FOR MONEY

NOT ON THE CHART (NO PUBLIC API PRICE):CommunityStep 1DiscoverySTILL IN THE TABLE BELOW. THE CHART ONLY PLOTS MODELS WITH A KNOWN PRICE PER 1M TOKENS.

Metric	GPT 5 Mini x	Community x	Step 1 x	Discovery x
VIBE SCORE	5.2	7.3	7.4	7.6
VOICES	1,264	2,023	3,795	9,856
RANK	#377	#21	#11	#3
CATEGORY	Multimodal	Text	Text	Text
OPEN/CLOSED	CLOSED	CLOSED	CLOSED	OPEN WEIGHTS
PRICE IN (per 1M)	$0.25 / 1M	N/A	N/A	N/A
PRICE OUT (per 1M)	$2.00 / 1M	N/A	N/A	N/A
THE CROWD LOVES	People feel it is worth the money	Popular for coding help	Popular for coding help	Popular for coding help
THE CROWD GRUMBLES	Outages, errors, or limits get in the way	People find it expensive	Sometimes makes things up	Outages, errors, or limits get in the way