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GPT-5 nano

OpenAIReleased 7 Aug 2025Closed
130119–142Index score#117 of 229 models
4/ 8Core tests taken4 of 6 areas · plus 13 anchor tests
−23Versus the frontier at releasebest then: GPT-5Replaced by GPT-5.4 Nano
$0.050/ $0.40Price per million tokensinput / output, list price
400KContext windowtokens it reads at once

Where it sitson the frontier

o1 reached this score 8 months earlier.

Test resultsby area · tick = best by any model

Reasoning & knowledgeevidence
GPQA Diamond
69%
Humanity's Last Exam
no result
Mathsevidence
FrontierMath T1-3
20%
Codingevidence
SWE-bench Verified
no result
Terminal-Bench
22%
Agentsevidence
APEX-Agents
no result
Novel problemsevidence
ARC-AGI-2
3%
Long tasksno evidence yet
METR time horizon
no result

Independent results from the Epoch AI benchmarking hub, best reasoning setting. The core tests are shown here; anchor tests also inform the score and can be shown above.

What others sayrank on each leaderboard

Further left is better. Leaderboards measure different things: LMArena is people voting blind between two answers, the others are test scores. Click any row for the source.

Best attop three among current models

Replaced by GPT-5.4 Nano; it no longer leads any category among current models.

Where this model places in the top three of today's models, on category leaderboards and on our core tests.

Where to use itprices checked 1 Oct 2026

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Facts and sources

Released7 Aug 2025
Announcementnot linked yet
Release entry–
Scored asGPT-5 nano
Artificial Analysis index–
Output speed–
Hugging Faceclosed weights

OpenAI releasesaround this one