GPT-5 (Aug 2025)

openai/gpt-5-2025-08-07

GPT-5 is a model from OpenAI that accepts text, image, and file inputs and generates text outputs. It supports a context length of 400,000 tokens, tool use, and reasoning capabilities. It is a proprietary model released in January 2025.

  • tool use
  • structured outputs
  • reasoning

At a glance

provideropenai
releasedJan 1, 2025
context400K
input / M$1.25

Specifications

What the API gives you

Context window
400K tokens
Max output
128K tokens
Input price
$1.25 / 1M tokens
Output price
$10 / 1M tokens
Cache read
$0.13 / 1M tokens
Modalities
text, image, file → text
Knowledge cutoff
Sep 30, 2024
Released
Jan 1, 2025

Measured evidence

Public benchmark record

Aider Polyglot
88%2026-10-21
Design Arena Coding
1165 Elo2026-10-21
Design Arena UI
1144 Elo2026-10-21
Design Arena Website
1182 Elo2026-10-21
FACTS Grounding
69.6%2025-09-02evaluated 2025-09-02
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (Epoch AI)‡
37.2% ± 2.92026-08-27low effort, evaluated 2026-08-27
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (Epoch AI)‡
55.4% ± 2.92026-06-10high effort, evaluated 2026-06-10
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI)‡
71.7% ± 3.22026-07-20minimal effort, evaluated 2026-07-20
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI)‡
86.2% ± 2.12025-10-29high effort, evaluated 2025-10-29
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI)‡
85.4% ± 2.12025-08-07medium effort, evaluated 2025-08-07
LMArena Creative Writing‡
1364 Elo2026-10-20high effort
LMArena Instruction Following‡
1388 Elo2026-10-20high effort
LMArena Long Query‡
1387 Elo2026-10-20high effort
LMArena Math‡
1398 Elo2026-10-20high effort
LMArena Text‡
1435 Elo2026-10-20high effort
LMArena Text Factuality‡
1421 Elo2026-10-20high effort
LMArena Vision‡
1211 Elo2026-10-19high effort
LMArena Vision Diagrams‡
1251 Elo2026-10-19high effort
LMArena Vision OCR‡
1232 Elo2026-10-19high effort
LMArena WebDev‡
1418 Elo2026-10-19medium effort
OTIS Mock AIME (Epoch AI)‡
46.7% ± 7.52026-07-20minimal effort, evaluated 2026-07-20
OTIS Mock AIME (Epoch AI)‡
91.4% ± 3.72025-10-29high effort, evaluated 2025-10-29
OTIS Mock AIME (Epoch AI)‡
87.2% ± 3.92025-08-07medium effort, evaluated 2025-08-07
SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI)‡
50.1% ± 1.62026-08-27high effort, evaluated 2026-08-27

LMArena data licensed CC-BY-4.0. Aider (Apache-2.0) and SWE-bench (MIT) are open. Design Arena uses blind human preference. ‡ Submitted scaffold plus model result. Compare the harness and effort settings, not only the model name.

Task evidence

How broad is the support?

Each status is exact to this model version and the selected task. Official release claims remain provisional.

  • Best LLM for Frontend & UIEstablished evidence

    82% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Grounded RAGEstablished evidence

    62% of intended weighted task evidence across 3 independent sources. 5 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for a General AssistantEstablished evidence

    59% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best Local LLM for CodingEstablished evidence

    59% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Code CompletionEstablished evidence

    57% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 3 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Competition MathEstablished evidence

    56% of intended weighted task evidence across 3 independent sources. 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

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  • Best LLM for Logic & Problem SolvingEstablished evidence

    55% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Math & ReasoningEstablished evidence

    52% of intended weighted task evidence across 4 independent sources. 7 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for CodingEstablished evidence

    47% of intended weighted task evidence across 3 independent sources. 7 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Document SummarizationEstablished evidence

    45% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 5 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for SummarizationEstablished evidence

    45% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 5 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for RAG & Long ContextEstablished evidence

    44% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 5 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Debugging & Code ReviewEstablished evidence

    39% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Business WritingProvisional evidence

    67% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Marketing CopyProvisional evidence

    67% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Chat & RoleplayProvisional evidence

    67% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Roleplay & CharacterProvisional evidence

    67% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Creative WritingProvisional evidence

    56% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for WritingProvisional evidence

    56% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Image UnderstandingProvisional evidence

    50% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Reasoning or VLMEvalKit tasks. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for OCR & DocumentsProvisional evidence

    45% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Document or Structured-output eval. 3 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Charts & DiagramsProvisional evidence

    45% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Document or Structured-output eval. 3 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Vision & DocumentsProvisional evidence

    40% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Document or Structured-output eval. 4 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Document ParsingProvisional evidence

    37% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Document or Structured-output eval. 3 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best Open-Weight LLM for Self-HostingProvisional evidence

    27% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best Value LLMProvisional evidence

    25% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Massive ContextProvisional evidence

    20% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Document or LongBench v2. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Fast SummariesProvisional evidence

    17% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Literary TranslationProvisional evidence

    17% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Everyday TranslationProvisional evidence

    17% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for TranslationProvisional evidence

    17% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for JSON & Schema OutputProvisional evidence

    12% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LiveBench Data Analysis. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Structured Data ExtractionProvisional evidence

    12% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LiveBench Data Analysis. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best Cheap LLM for High VolumeProvisional evidence

    10% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Cheapest Capable LLMProvisional evidence

    10% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

Recommendation coverage

Where this model appears

Not currently included in a published recommendation. The task evidence panel above says exactly what is confirmed and what is still missing.

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