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 Chat LatestOpenAIRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | OpenAI |
| Discovery tier | Frontier | Frontier |
| Added | Aug 7, 2025 | May 3, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 400K | 1.05MBest |
| Max output | 128K | 128K |
| Average output | 411 tokens | 408 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $1.25Best | $2.00 |
| Output | $10.00 | $10.00 |
| Cache read | $0.13Best | $0.20 |
| Cache write | — | $2.50 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | — | 83.7 tok/s |
| Time to first token | — | 2.6 s |
| Request success (24h) | — | 100.0% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 23.0 | 47.0Best |
| Coding Index | 37.8 | 77.4Best |
| Math Index | 94.3 | — |
| 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, xhigh, max |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- GPT 5
- GPT Chat Latest
Intelligence Index
- GPT 523.0
- GPT Chat Latest47.0
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 Chat Latest: 77.4Top
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- GPT 5: 94.3
- GPT Chat Latest: —
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- GPT 5: —
- GPT Chat Latest: 60.1%
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- GPT 5: —
- GPT Chat Latest: 30.3%
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- GPT 5: —
- GPT Chat Latest: 1,479 Elo
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- GPT 5: 918 Elo
- GPT Chat Latest: 1,609 EloTop
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- GPT 5: —
- GPT Chat Latest: 27.2%
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- GPT 5: 78.2%
- GPT Chat Latest: 84.0%Top
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- GPT 5: —
- GPT Chat Latest: 30.0%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- GPT 5: 28.5%
- GPT Chat Latest: 49.5%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- GPT 5: 85.4%
- GPT Chat Latest: 94.1%Top
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- GPT 5: 87.1%
- GPT Chat Latest: —
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- GPT 5: 73.1%Top
- GPT Chat Latest: 72.7%
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- GPT 5: —
- GPT Chat Latest: 39.9%
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- GPT 5: —
- GPT Chat Latest: 57.1%
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- GPT 5: 84.6%
- GPT Chat Latest: —
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- GPT 5: 94.3%
- GPT Chat Latest: —
AIME
Competition mathematics
- GPT 5: 95.7%
- GPT Chat Latest: —
MATH-500
Competition math problems
- GPT 5: 99.4%
- GPT Chat Latest: —
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- GPT 5: 32.6%
- GPT Chat Latest: 65.9%Top
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- GPT 5: 84.8%
- GPT Chat Latest: 85.1%Top
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- GPT 5: 78.2%
- GPT Chat Latest: 84.0%Top
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 Chat Latest
| Leaderboard | GPT 5 | GPT Chat Latest |
|---|---|---|
| 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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