Model comparison
GPT-4.5 vs GPT-5-Codex
GPT-4.5 and GPT-5-Codex score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.2 vs 37.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. GPT-4.5 scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5-Codex in 3 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5-Codex leads 30.9 to 13.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is WeirdML: 39.4% for GPT-4.5 and 54.5% for GPT-5-Codex.
Side by side
| GPT-4.5 | GPT-5-Codex | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 37.2 | 37.9 |
| Released | 2025-02-27 | 2025-09-15 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 400K |
| Max output | — | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $10 |
| Results tracked | 42 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
GPT-4.5: 42.2 (#109), GPT-5-Codex: 42.4 (#103)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | GPT-5-Codex |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 39.4% | 54.5% |
| Aider Polyglot | 44.9% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 75.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1396 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5-Codex leads
GPT-4.5: 27.9 (#97), GPT-5-Codex: 31.0 (#72)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | GPT-5-Codex |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 44.3% |
| Cybench | 17.5% | — |
Reasoning GPT-5-Codex leads
GPT-4.5: 13.9 (#330), GPT-5-Codex: 30.9 (#83)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | GPT-5-Codex |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.8% | — |
| SimpleBench | 34.5% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 70.3% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 10.3% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 3.2% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 71.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1403 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 64.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 136.74 | — |
| ForecastBench | 61.7 | — |
| LiveBench | 69% | — |
Math Not comparable
GPT-4.5: 32.6 (#211), GPT-5-Codex: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | GPT-5-Codex |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 37.8% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 69.3% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1412 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 78.6% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
GPT-4.5: 32.5 (#211), GPT-5-Codex: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | GPT-5-Codex |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 68.7% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 5.4% | — |
| Confabulations | 13.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1394 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
GPT-4.5: 37.6 (#71), GPT-5-Codex: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | GPT-5-Codex |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1195 | — |
| VPCT | 45% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
GPT-4.5: 52.5 (#83), GPT-5-Codex: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | GPT-5-Codex |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1413 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1421 | — |
| LMArena French | 1418 | — |
| LMArena German | 1457 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1416 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1392 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1419 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
GPT-4.5: 72.6 (#134), GPT-5-Codex: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | GPT-5-Codex |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 72.3% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1404 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
GPT-4.5: 40.4 (#155), GPT-5-Codex: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | GPT-5-Codex |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 63.9% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1406 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
GPT-4.5: 56.9 (#134), GPT-5-Codex: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | GPT-5-Codex |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1417 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1394 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 75.6% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1258 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1444 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 61.5% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-4.5 better than GPT-5-Codex?
GPT-4.5 and GPT-5-Codex score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.2 vs 37.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is GPT-4.5 or GPT-5-Codex better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (42.2 vs 42.4); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do GPT-4.5 and GPT-5-Codex share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. GPT-4.5 has 42 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5-Codex has 3.