GPT-5
FrontierOpenAI•Released on 2025-08-07
OpenAI's unified flagship model with built-in routing system that auto-selects optimal sub-models. HN users praise its comprehensive multimodal capabilities and competitive pricing ($1.25 vs Claude $15). However, benchmark chart errors at launch sparked controversy.
Voice of the community
sample 1,847“GPT-5 has climbed to the top of Design Arena, a crowdsource benchmark that ranks LLMs using preference votes from users on model generations.”
“GPT-5 turned what I thought was a multi-month engineering challenge into a casual one-hour sprint. This is serious, real, autonomous software engineering.”
“5-pro is really really smart, clearly 'the smartest model on the market' for complex questions. Better results than o3 pro.”
Core Specs
Scenario Scores
Pros & Cons
Pros
- +Highly competitive pricing
- +Most comprehensive multimodal
- +DALL-E integration
- +Largest ecosystem
Cons
- −Coding inferior to Claude Opus
- −Launch quality issues
- −Black-box architecture
Pricing
Get Started with GPT-5
💡 Free tier has limited GPT-5 access.