OpenAI: GPT-5
🇺🇸 OpenAI · GPT-5
Overview
OpenAI: GPT-5 is a large language model API from OpenAI, part of its GPT-5 model family. Priced at $1.25 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens, it occupies the mid-range, balancing capability against running cost. Output tokens cost about 8× as much as input, so prompt-heavy workloads run noticeably cheaper than generation-heavy ones. A large 400K-token context window (≈600 pages of text) lets it take in whole books, large codebases, or lengthy transcripts in a single call. Beyond plain text it also accepts Image, File input, so it can be applied to multimodal tasks rather than text alone. On Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index it scores 36 (B grade), a useful proxy for its general reasoning strength relative to the other models tracked here. All prices on this page reflect OpenRouter's routed rates and are re-synced automatically every day; confirm against the provider's official pricing before committing to production.
| Dimension | Unit | Price (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| Input | per 1M tokens | $1.25 |
| Output | per 1M tokens | $10.00 |
| Cached Input | per 1M tokens | $0.125 |
| Web Search | per search | $0.010 |
- Provider
- OpenAI
- Model Family
- GPT-5
- Version String
- openai/gpt-5
- Status
- Active
- Modality
- Text, Image, File
- Context Window
- 400,000 tokens
- Output Limit
- 128,000 tokens
Index Metrics
Cross-domain capability indexes evaluated by Artificial Analysis — Artificial Analysis
Benchmark Scores
Data source: Artificial Analysis
Performance Metrics
Real-world benchmarks, updated every 72 hours by Artificial Analysis — Artificial Analysis
Use Case Analysis
Model strengths, weaknesses, and ideal use cases based on benchmarks and official documentation
Strength
- Frontier Reasoning AIME 2025 94.6%, GPQA Diamond 85.7%. Configurable reasoning effort levels. Official
- Advanced Coding SWE-bench Verified 74.9%, Aider polyglot 88%. Excels at bug fixing and complex codebase understanding. Official
- Superior Tool Calling Tau2-bench telecom 96.7%. Better at understanding when to call tools and proactively suggesting tool use. Official
Best For
- Complex Reasoning Tasks Math problem-solving, logic puzzles, multi-step reasoning where accuracy is critical. Official
- Agentic Coding Workflows Long-running agent loops, complex refactors, and multi-file code generation. Official
Weakness
- Higher Latency Reasoning models are slower than non-reasoning variants. Not suitable for real-time applications. Official
Not Recommended
- Real-time Applications Use GPT-5 mini or GPT-5 nano for latency-sensitive workloads. Official
90-Day Price Trend
Input / Output price (USD per 1M tokens)
Past 90 days of records; every price change is shown here
| Date | Dimension | Price (USD) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.125 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $10.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.25 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.125 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $10.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.25 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.125 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $10.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.25 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.125 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $10.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.25 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.125 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $10.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.25 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.125 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $10.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.25 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.125 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $10.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.25 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.125 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $10.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.25 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.125 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $10.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.25 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.125 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $10.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.25 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.125 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $10.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.25 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.125 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $10.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.25 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.125 | OpenRouter |
Key Insights
Key data points from this page for quick reference and citation.
- OpenAI: GPT-5 Input price: $1.25/M tokens
- OpenAI: GPT-5 Output price: $10/M tokens
- Context window: 400,000 tokens
- Provider: OpenAI
- Model family: GPT-5
- Modalities: Text, Image, File
- Data source: OpenRouter, updated daily