gpt-5-chat: benchmark scores, price and ranking
gpt-5-chat from OpenAI ranks #290 of 743 LLMs on the LLMs Tiger aggregate benchmark score (49.2), based on 1 benchmark results captured up to 2026-10-13.
- Organisation
- OpenAI
- Type
- Frontier model
- Open weights
- No
- Released
- 2025-08-07 (source: curated)
- Context window
- 128,000 tokens
- Cheapest API price
- $1.25 in / $10.00 out per million tokens (via azure, observed 2026-10-13T20:47Z)
- Aggregate rank
- #290 of 743 (score 49.2)
Across the 1 benchmark where at least ten models are scored, gpt-5-chat is in the top 10% on 0 and in the top half on 0.
Its cheapest listed input price, $1.25 per million tokens, is lower than that of 26% of the 427 models with a listed price.
gpt-5-chat benchmark results
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Source | Captured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 39.8% | #61 of 109 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-13 |
About gpt-5-chat
gpt-5-chat is a frontier model from OpenAI. It was released on 2025-08-07, according to the developer's announcement. It accepts up to 128,000 tokens of input at once. The cheapest API listing we track charges $1.25 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens, through azure. We hold 1 benchmark result for it across 1 area, and none is in the top tenth of its board.
Where gpt-5-chat stands
On our aggregate score, gpt-5-chat is #290 of 743 ranked models, around the middle of the table. Its score is 49.2; the scale is centred on 50, so it sits 0.8 points below the typical model. That beats 61% of the ranked field. Among the 88 ranked OpenAI models it is #40. The next one up is gpt-3.5-turbo-1106 at 49.2. The next one down is gpt-4-0125-preview at 49.1.
gpt-5-chat, benchmark by benchmark
gpt-5-chat lands below the middle on WeirdML: 39.8%, #61 of 109, with 55% of the field scoring higher. GPT-6 Astra (max) leads at 93.3%; the closest result above is Claude 3.5 Sonnet (Oct 2024) at 40.0%. It covers unusual machine-learning tasks. The board median is 41.2%, so gpt-5-chat is 1.4 points below it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.
Price and value
The median input price across the 427 priced models is $0.500 per million tokens, so gpt-5-chat costs more than the typical listing. Models that score within 1.5 points or better and cost less: Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct ($0.010, 49.5), DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (high) ($0.010, 48.9), DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (max) ($0.016, 53.1). Similar scores cost more on Gemini 3 Pro ($2.00) and gpt-5.6-sol-xhigh (codex-harness) ($2.00).
Release history
The OpenAI model released before it was gpt-oss-20b (high) on 2025-08-05, which scores 44.3. The next one was GPT-5 (high) on 2025-08-07, at 51.1.
Reading these numbers
The 1 score on this page comes from 1 source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub (1). No official leaderboard supplied any of them, so treat them as third-party measurements. With 1 results the aggregate rank can move a lot when one new score arrives.
Models ranked nearby
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- #288 Seed-OSS-36B-Base (49.2)
- #289 kimi-k2p5 (49.2)
- #291 Claude Code + Qwen3.8-Max-0902 (49.1)
- #292 Claude Opus 4.1 (unknown thinking) (49.1)
- #293 Kimi K2.5 (instant) (49.1)
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- GPT-5.6 Sol (max) (#6, 60.1)
- GPT-6 Sol (max) (#7, 60.0)
- GPT-5.5 (xhigh) (#11, 58.0)
- GPT-5.6 Terra (max) (#12, 57.8)
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