GPT-5: API Pricing, Context Window & Benchmarks
GPT-5 is a language model from OpenAI, released in August 2025, with multimodal input.
GPT-5 is a flagship model from OpenAI designed for coding, reasoning, and agentic tasks across domains. It is optimized for coding and agentic tasks with higher reasoning capabilities and medium speed.
GPT-5 benchmarks
Capability tiers
Standing within each category, adjusted for leaderboard depth.
Real tasks performance
How GPT-5 performs across real-world prompt categories.
Performance by conversation depth
How GPT-5 holds up as conversations get longer.
Quality Tracker
GPT-5 Performance Across Datasets
Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts
llm-stats.com - Mon Aug 24 2026GPT-5 pricing
Providers
GPT-5 starts at $1.25 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens via OpenAI.
| Provider | Input $/M | Cached input $/M | Output $/M | Context in / out | TTFT p95 s | Output p5 c/s | Modalities in / out |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 OpenAI | $1.25 | — | $10.00 | 400.0K/128.0K | 2.00 | — | / |
Cached input is the discounted price for prompt tokens served from a provider cache. TTFT is time to first token. Output is characters per second; p5 is the sustained floor exceeded by 95% of observed requests.
GPT-5 context window
Input and output token limits for GPT-5, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.
GPT-5 API
Available from the model provider
GPT-5 has an official provider API. It is not currently routed through the LLM Stats gateway.
Read the official API documentationGPT-5 latency
GPT-5 time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live API traffic over the trailing 7 days.
GPT-5 examples
Recent arena outputs from GPT-5, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.
GPT-5 license
GPT-5 is a proprietary model available under its provider's product and API terms, has a knowledge cutoff of September 2024.
- License
- Proprietary
- Hosted access
- Knowledge cutoff
- September 2024
Proprietary license - usage restrictions apply
GPT-5 resources
Official sources for GPT-5: api documentation, official playground, paper or system card, official launch post.
GPT-5 vs other models
The most-compared alternatives to GPT-5 are Gemini 3 Pro, GPT-5 High, GPT-5.1 Instant. Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.
Models like GPT-5
Models ranked just above and below GPT-5 by LLM Stats score.
FAQ
Common questions about GPT-5.