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GPT-5 vs GPT-5 Chat vs o3 Pro

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Winner summary

GPT-5 wins 7 of 8 shared benchmarks. Leads in coding · reasoning · knowledge.

Category leads
coding·GPT-5reasoning·GPT-5knowledge·GPT-5
Hype vs Reality
GPT-5
#74 by perf·no signal
QUIET
GPT-5 Chat
#3 by perf·#1 by attention
DESERVED
o3 Pro
#35 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
1.5x better value than GPT-5
GPT-5
9.7 pts/$
$5.63/M
GPT-5 Chat
14.6 pts/$
$5.63/M
o3 Pro
1.2 pts/$
$50.00/M
Vendor risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
GPT-5GPT-5 Chato3 Pro
Aider polyglot
Aider Polyglot · measures how well AI models can edit code across multiple programming languages using the Aider coding assistant framework.
GPT-5
88.0
GPT-5 Chat
88.0
o3 Pro
84.9
ARC-AGI
GPT-5 leads by +6.4
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
GPT-5
65.7
o3 Pro
59.3
ARC-AGI-2
GPT-5 leads by +5.0
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
GPT-5
9.9
o3 Pro
4.9
Fiction.LiveBench
Fiction.LiveBench · a continuously updated benchmark using recently published fiction to test reading comprehension and reasoning, preventing data contamination.
GPT-5
97.2
o3 Pro
97.2
Lech Mazur Writing
GPT-5 leads by +1.0
Lech Mazur Writing · evaluates creative writing ability, assessing prose quality, narrative coherence, and stylistic sophistication.
GPT-5
87.2
o3 Pro
86.3
Professional Reasoning · Finance
GPT-5 leads by +2.2
GPT-5
51.3
o3 Pro
49.1
Professional Reasoning · Legal
o3 Pro leads by +0.7
GPT-5
49.0
o3 Pro
49.7
WeirdML
GPT-5 leads by +2.5
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
GPT-5
60.7
o3 Pro
58.2
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGPT-5GPT-5 Chato3 Pro
Aider polyglot
Aider Polyglot · measures how well AI models can edit code across multiple programming languages using the Aider coding assistant framework.
88.088.084.9
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
65.759.3
ARC-AGI-2
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
9.94.9
Fiction.LiveBench
Fiction.LiveBench · a continuously updated benchmark using recently published fiction to test reading comprehension and reasoning, preventing data contamination.
97.297.2
Lech Mazur Writing
Lech Mazur Writing · evaluates creative writing ability, assessing prose quality, narrative coherence, and stylistic sophistication.
87.286.3
Professional Reasoning · Finance
51.349.1
Professional Reasoning · Legal
49.049.7
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
60.758.2
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
OpenAI logoGPT-5$1.25$10.00400K tokens (~200 books)$34.38
OpenAI logoGPT-5 Chat$1.25$10.00128K tokens (~64 books)$34.38
OpenAI logoo3 Pro$20.00$80.00200K tokens (~100 books)$350.00