GPT-5

Language OpenAI Verified Deprecated Shuts down Dec 11, 2026 Replaced by GPT-5.6 Sol Released Aug 7, 2025
  • In Input modalities: TextImage Out Output modalities: Text
  • Reasoning· minimal, low, medium, high
  • Tool use
  • Structured output

Prices

3 offerings · prices as listed
OpenAI API (opens in a new tab) Official Global · USD gpt-5
Conditions/ 1M tokensInputCache readOutput
Standard $1.25$0.125$10.00
Flex tier $0.625$0.0625$5.00
Fast tier $2.50$0.25$20.00
Batch $0.625$0.0625$5.00

Prices from OpenAI API pricing (opens in a new tab) (checked Nov 9, 2026)

Standard: the price a request with no conditions pays (the headline price elsewhere on the site).

Details

Max input
272K
Knowledge cutoff
Sep 2024
Open weights
—
Family
gpt
Aliases
gpt-5-2025-08-07
Model ID

Not stated on OpenAI’s pages: reasoning can be off, max thinking budget, built-in tools.

Cited scores

From third-party leaderboards, not measured by us
  • Epoch Capabilities Index 150

    #60 of 118 listed models

  • LMArena Text 1,435

    #67 of 163 listed models · high effort · CI 1,430–1,439 · 31,648 votes

  • LMArena Text · Chinese 1,453

    #85 of 161 listed models · high effort · CI 1,440–1,466 · 2,240 votes

  • LMArena Text · Coding 1,471

    #77 of 163 listed models · high effort · CI 1,463–1,479 · 6,382 votes

  • Epoch AI, 'Capabilities & benchmarking'. Published online at epoch.ai. Retrieved from 'https://epoch.ai/benchmarks'. Licensed CC BY 4.0. · License · as of Nov 5, 2026
  • LMArena (Arena), leaderboard-dataset on Hugging Face, licensed CC BY 4.0 · License · as of Nov 8, 2026
  • changes we made
  1. Available → Deprecated
  2. 3 prices dropped on OpenAI API Input (Flex tier, Batch) $0.625 · Output (Flex tier, Batch) $5.00 · Cache read (Flex tier, Batch) $0.0625
  3. 3 new prices on OpenAI API Input (Flex tier, Batch) $0.625 · Output (Flex tier, Batch) $5.00 · Cache read (Flex tier, Batch) $0.0625

Sources

OpenAI’s official policies: data use, privacy, terms →

OpenAI · United States · openai.com

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