GPT-5 (medium)

By OpenAI · released 2025-08-07 (12 months) · snapshot 2026-08-19

Not ranked · benchmark data missingproprietary
Intelligence index
34.60
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)
$1.25 / $10.0
End-to-end time
42.9s
Better than…

Is GPT-5 (medium) on the Pareto frontier, and what beats it?

Not ranked · benchmark data missing

GPT-5 (medium) does not report both selected axis metrics.

Open in the picker Daily check URL: 200 on the frontier, 409 once beaten

At a glance

GPT-5 (medium) today

Time to first answer36.8s
Output speed82 tok/s
Input modalitiesNot reported
Not plotted

Incomplete benchmark data

Intelligence and benchmark cost are both required to place this model on the frontier. Missing data is not a performance verdict.

Intelligence index
34.60
Benchmark cost
Not reported
Input / 1M tokens
1.25
Output / 1M tokens
10.00
Context window
Not reported

Intelligence: Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. Cost: total cost to run that benchmark, so reasoning tokens count. API id: gpt-5-medium.

Matchup

Compare head to head

Suggested: what beats it, its effort levels, and frontier models near its price.

Compare GPT-5 (medium) with measured models

Release

What the GPT-5 release did to the frontier on 2025-08-07

1 of 5 effort levels reached the frontier at launch (GPT-5 (high)). Impact 10.37, did not move the frontier; 42 releases this past year did.

Release page: launch-day frontier and every effort level

Deciding

Should you use GPT-5 (medium)?

Should you use GPT-5 (medium)?

No verdict: it does not report both intelligence and benchmark cost.

What is better and cheaper than GPT-5 (medium)?

Other models on the intelligence-vs-cost frontier

How much does GPT-5 (medium) cost?

$1.25/$10 in/out per 1M tokens, and - to run the full Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the honest all-in number for reasoning models.

Frontier membership by axis pair

Other axis pairs where GPT-5 (medium) is Pareto-optimal.

Y axisX axisOn the frontier
AA intelligence indexAA total cost to run (USD)no data
AA intelligence indexEnd-to-end total seconds
AA intelligence indexOutput speed tokens/sec
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