OpenAI
GPT-5
OpenAI's unified flagship model offered across all ChatGPT tiers with broad general-purpose capability.
Our editorial assessment, based on the public sources listed below. Last reviewed .
- Overall rank
- #51
- Tier
- A
- Score
- 77.4
- Main category
- Overall
Strengths
- Strong all-around performance across chat, coding, and reasoning
- Largest third-party ecosystem of plugins and integrations
- Available to all ChatGPT users with competitive API pricing
Considerations
- Superseded by GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.5 on the newest benchmarks
- Reasoning depth trails dedicated thinking variants
- Pricing varies by inference mode
Price
Free tier · ChatGPT Plus $20/mo · API ~$1.25/$10 per 1M tokens
Shown for reference — price is not part of the score.
Score breakdown
- Performance
- 80.0
- 55% of score
- Reputation
- 84.0
- 35% of score
- Recency
- 40.0
- 10% of score
The overall score combines these sub-scores using the weights shown. How we score →
Verification status
Each field carries its own re-verification date. Amber means older than 90 days — treat those figures as stale until re-checked.
- Pricing
- Benchmark
- Reputation
- Feature list
Checked against the sources listed below.
Sources
- chat-got.ai — GPT-5 release, features and current API status (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
- OpenAI API deprecations — older GPT-5/o3 snapshots removal Dec 11, 2026 (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
- Introducing GPT-5 - OpenAI (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
- OpenAI Help Center — Retiring GPT-4o and other ChatGPT models (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
- 22 AI Frontier Models Compared for 2026 - TeamAI (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
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