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 | GPT 5.1OpenAIRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | OpenAI |
| Discovery tier | Frontier | Frontier |
| Added | Aug 7, 2025 | Nov 13, 2025 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 400K | 400K |
| Max output | 128K | 128K |
| Average output | 411 tokens | 294 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $1.25 | $1.25 |
| Output | $10.00 | $10.00 |
| Cache read | $0.13 | $0.13 |
| Performance | ||
| Request success (24h) | — | 100.0% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 23.0Best | 13.3 |
| Coding Index | 37.8 | — |
| Math Index | 94.3Best | 38.0 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes | Yes |
| PDF input | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | minimal, low, medium, high | none, low, medium, high |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- GPT 5
- GPT 5.1
Intelligence Index
- GPT 523.0
- GPT 5.113.3
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
- GPT 5.1: —
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- GPT 5: 94.3Top
- GPT 5.1: 38.0
Agentic work
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- GPT 5: 918 Elo
- GPT 5.1: —
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- GPT 5: 78.2%Top
- GPT 5.1: 45.0%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- GPT 5: 28.5%Top
- GPT 5.1: 5.3%
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- GPT 5: 85.4%Top
- GPT 5.1: 64.3%
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- GPT 5: 87.1%Top
- GPT 5.1: 80.1%
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- GPT 5: 73.1%Top
- GPT 5.1: 43.2%
Coding
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- GPT 5: 84.6%Top
- GPT 5.1: 49.4%
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- GPT 5: 94.3%Top
- GPT 5.1: 38.0%
AIME
Competition mathematics
- GPT 5: 95.7%
- GPT 5.1: —
MATH-500
Competition math problems
- GPT 5: 99.4%
- GPT 5.1: —
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- GPT 5: 32.6%Top
- GPT 5.1: 22.7%
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- GPT 5: 84.8%Top
- GPT 5.1: 46.5%
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- GPT 5: 78.2%Top
- GPT 5.1: 45.0%
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
- GPT 5.1
| Leaderboard | GPT 5 | GPT 5.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Vision Style Control · Captioning | #11 · 1196.0 | #4 · 1248.2 |
| Vision Style Control · Entity Recognition | #4 · 1261.5 | #11 · 1228.2 |
| Vision Style Control · Creative Writing | Not in top 20 | #3 · 1284.6 |
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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