It feels like OpenAI is focusing mostly on flagship models lately while the lighter, more affordable variants for everyday use are being overlooked.

A lot of developers still rely on smaller models for day-to-day tasks because they’re faster and cheaper to run. It would be great to see OpenAI release a new model in that price/performance range. GPT-5.3 Spark seems like it could fill that gap, but so far there’s no API release.

The main issue with the current GPT-5 Mini series is that it’s quite slow, barely reaching around 80 tokens per second.