Substitutes · GPT-510 alternatives · within 10% performance · lower price

Cheaper alternatives to GPT-5

Drop-in substitutes within 10% of GPT-5's average benchmark, priced lower, sorted by price. Target price $1.25/M · target score 53.2.

Price
Free
Score
68.7
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131K
Save 100%·129% of GPT-5
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Price
Free
Score
66.4
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131K
Save 100%·125% of GPT-5
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Price
$0.029
Score
67.4
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131K
Save 98%·127% of GPT-5
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Price
$0.048
Score
55.3
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131K
Save 96%·104% of GPT-5
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Price
$0.070
Score
57.0
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131K
Save 94%·107% of GPT-5
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Price
$0.075
Score
64.2
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1.0M
Save 94%·121% of GPT-5
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Price
$0.080
Score
58.2
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131K
Save 94%·109% of GPT-5
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Price
$0.084
Score
67.2
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1.0M
Save 93%·126% of GPT-5
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Price
$0.090
Score
73.3
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262K
Save 93%·138% of GPT-5
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Price
$0.090
Score
54.4
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262K
Save 93%·102% of GPT-5
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The cheapest drop-in alternative is gpt-oss-120b (free) at Free/M input · 100% cheaper than GPT-5 with 129% of the benchmark score.