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 52.1.

Price
Free
Score
68.7
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131K
Save 100%·132% of GPT-5
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Price
Free
Score
66.4
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131K
Save 100%·127% of GPT-5
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Price
$0.006
Score
64.5
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1.0M
Save 100%·124% of GPT-5
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Price
$0.007
Score
56.3
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1.0M
Save 99%·108% of GPT-5
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Price
$0.030
Score
53.2
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131K
Save 98%·102% of GPT-5
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Price
$0.040
Score
48.1
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1.0M
Save 97%·92% of GPT-5
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Price
$0.043
Score
55.7
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1.0M
Save 97%·107% of GPT-5
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Price
$0.051
Score
54.1
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1.0M
Save 96%·104% of GPT-5
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Price
$0.070
Score
56.7
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1.0M
Save 94%·109% of GPT-5
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Price
$0.070
Score
57.0
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131K
Save 94%·109% 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 132% of the benchmark score.