OpenAI · Frontier
GPT 5
GPT-5 is OpenAI's most advanced model, offering major improvements in reasoning, code quality, and user experience. It handles complex coding tasks with minimal prompting, provides clear explanations, and introduces enhanced agentic capabilities. Designed for logic and multi-step tasks.
- Reasoning
- Tools
- Vision
- Structured output
- PDF input
- Input
- Text, Images
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning effort
- minimal · low · medium · high
- Discovery tier
- Frontier
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $1.25
- Output
- $10.00
- Cache read
- $0.13
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 400K
- Max output
- 128K
- Average output (7 days)
- 411 tokens
- Longer than 41% of 468 models
Side by side
GPT 5 compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| GPT 5OpenAIThis model | Qwen3.5 27B TEEQwenRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Qwen |
| Discovery tier | Frontier | Open weights |
| Added | Aug 7, 2025 | Mar 13, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 400KBest | 262.14K |
| Max output | 128KBest | 65.54K |
| Average output | 411 tokens | 1.4K tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $1.25 | $0.30Best |
| Output | $10.00 | $2.40Best |
| Cache read | $0.13 | — |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 23.0Best | 22.9 |
| Coding Index | 37.8 | — |
| Math Index | 94.3 | — |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | No |
| Tools | Yes | No |
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes | No |
| PDF input | Yes | No |
| Video input | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | minimal, low, medium, high | — |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- GPT 5
- Qwen3.5 27B TEE
Intelligence Index
- GPT 523.0
- Qwen3.5 27B TEE22.9
GPT 5 tested at high reasoning effort
GPT 5: Better than 57% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- GPT 5: 37.8
- Qwen3.5 27B TEE: —
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- GPT 5: 94.3
- Qwen3.5 27B TEE: —
Agentic work
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- GPT 5: 918 Elo
- Qwen3.5 27B TEE: —
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- GPT 5: 78.2%Top
- Qwen3.5 27B TEE: 77.7%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- GPT 5: 28.5%Top
- Qwen3.5 27B TEE: 23.9%
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- GPT 5: 85.4%
- Qwen3.5 27B TEE: 85.8%Top
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- GPT 5: 87.1%
- Qwen3.5 27B TEE: —
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- GPT 5: 73.1%
- Qwen3.5 27B TEE: 75.6%Top
Coding
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- GPT 5: 84.6%
- Qwen3.5 27B TEE: —
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- GPT 5: 94.3%
- Qwen3.5 27B TEE: —
AIME
Competition mathematics
- GPT 5: 95.7%
- Qwen3.5 27B TEE: —
MATH-500
Competition math problems
- GPT 5: 99.4%
- Qwen3.5 27B TEE: —
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- GPT 5: 32.6%Top
- Qwen3.5 27B TEE: 32.6%Top
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- GPT 5: 84.8%
- Qwen3.5 27B TEE: 93.9%Top
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- GPT 5: 78.2%Top
- Qwen3.5 27B TEE: 77.7%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. GPT 5 was tested at high reasoning effort; compare scores measured at the same effort.Artificial Analysis
- GPT 5
- Qwen3.5 27B TEE
| Leaderboard | GPT 5 | Qwen3.5 27B TEE |
|---|---|---|
| Vision Style Control · Captioning | #11 · 1196.0 | Not in top 20 |
| Vision Style Control · Entity Recognition | #4 · 1261.5 | Not in top 20 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on LMArena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.LMArena
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "openai/gpt-5",
"reasoning_effort": "medium",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="openai/gpt-5",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)OpenAI
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