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GPT-5

Released Aug 7, 2025 · knowledge cutoff 2024-10

Status
Superseded
Location
United States
Modality
Multimodal
Context window
400K
Max output
128K
Speed
Price ($/MTok in / out)
$1.25 / $10
Cost per task (high effort)
$0.22
Open weights
No
Benchmarks7 of 8 reported

MMLU-Pro

87%

GPQA Diamond

85.7%

SWE-bench Verified

74.9%

AIME (latest)

94.6%

Humanity's Last Exam

24.8%

LMArena Elo

1442

ARC-AGI-2

9.9%

Terminal-Bench 2.1

Strengths & weaknesses

Strengths

  • Decides for itself when a question deserves deliberation, so you don't pick a model per task
  • Much readier to say it doesn't know instead of inventing an answer
  • Holds up better across long multi-file coding sessions than any earlier OpenAI model

Weaknesses

  • Routing misjudgments made quality feel random — the same prompt could get a shallow or a deep answer
  • Flatter, more clinical voice; users described losing a companion, not just a tool
  • Under-answers by default, giving a summary where the previous line elaborated

Scores shown for GPT-5 (thinking, high).

For developers

API model strings

Not researched

Licence

Proprietary — weights not released

Retirement

No retirement announced

Lineage

No recorded predecessor

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