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GPT-5.1

Released Nov 12, 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Superseded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)
$0.27
Open weights
No
Benchmarks4 of 8 reported

GPQA Diamond

88.1%

SWE-bench Verified

76.3%

Humanity's Last Exam

26.5%

LMArena Elo

1465

MMLU-Pro

Terminal-Bench 2.1

AIME (latest)

ARC-AGI-2

Strengths & weaknesses

Strengths

  • Spends thinking time in proportion to difficulty, so easy turns come back fast
  • Warmer and more conversational than GPT-5 without sliding back into flattery
  • Holds an instruction across a long session instead of drifting back to its defaults

Weaknesses

  • Still misjudges ambiguous prompts, occasionally answering a hard question from the fast path
  • The gains are in feel and pacing rather than capability — easier to work with, not smarter

Shipped as Instant and Thinking variants.

For developers

API model strings

Not researched

Licence

Proprietary — weights not released

Retirement

No retirement announced

Lineage

No recorded predecessor

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