Model comparison

GPT-5 Mini vs Ring-2.6-1T

GPT-5 Mini has enough public results to be ranked (#128); Ring-2.6-1T does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5 Mini OpenAI

41.8

Rank #128 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 Mini scores higher in 0 categories and Ring-2.6-1T in 2 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • Ring-2.6-1T has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5 Mini and Ring-2.6-1T specifications
GPT-5 MiniRing-2.6-1T
ProviderOpenAIAnt Group (inclusionAI)
Noometry Index41.836.9
Released2025-08-072026-05-14
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.25—
Output $ / M tokens$2—
Results tracked603

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

GPT-5 Mini: 40.1 (#146), Ring-2.6-1T: 40.7

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniRing-2.6-1T
SciCode39.2%42.4%
ALE-Bench799.77432.57
SWE-bench Verified64.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)59.8%—
SWE-bench Multilingual39.7%—
WeirdML52.7%—
LMArena Coding1406—
AlgoTune1.38—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5 Mini: 31.1 (#70), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniRing-2.6-1T
Terminal-Bench34.8%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard55.5%—
Vending-Bench 2-31.18—

Reasoning Ring-2.6-1T leads

GPT-5 Mini: 23.9 (#168), Ring-2.6-1T: 26.1

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniRing-2.6-1T
CritPt0%3.7%
ARC-AGI-24.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark70.3%—
ARC-AGI-154.3%—
Chess Puzzles30%—
EnigmaEval8.2%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1380—
Mystery Game Puzzles10%—
DTBench80.5%—
LMCA34.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index145.52—
ForecastBench61—

Math Not comparable

GPT-5 Mini: 46.7 (#69), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniRing-2.6-1T
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)46.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 412.2%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202586.7%—
ProofBench9%—
Omni-MATH72.2%—
LMArena Math1378—
MATH Level 597.8%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)27.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)6.3%—

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-5 Mini: 45.6 (#86), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniRing-2.6-1T
GPQA Diamond75%—
Humanity's Last Exam19.4%—
SimpleQA Verified21.6%—
MMLU-Pro83.5%—
Confabulations13.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.9%—
GPQA (HELM)75.6%—
LMArena Expert1379—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5 Mini: 35.6 (#85), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniRing-2.6-1T
LMArena Vision1202—
VPCT40.2%—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5 Mini: 48.9 (#137), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniRing-2.6-1T
LMArena Non-English1363—
LMArena Chinese1385—
LMArena French1386—
LMArena German1366—
LMArena Japanese1341—
LMArena Korean1308—
LMArena Russian1362—
LMArena Spanish1355—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5 Mini: 76.2 (#46), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniRing-2.6-1T
IFEval92.7%—
LMArena Instruction Following1357—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5 Mini: 41.9 (#132), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniRing-2.6-1T
Fiction.LiveBench69.4%—
LMArena Longer Query1355—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5 Mini: 55.2 (#148), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniRing-2.6-1T
LMArena Text1373—
LMArena Creative Writing1325—
Short-Story Creative Writing83.1%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1313—
WildBench85.5%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1363—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5 Mini better than Ring-2.6-1T?

GPT-5 Mini has enough public results to be ranked (#128); Ring-2.6-1T does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is GPT-5 Mini or Ring-2.6-1T better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (40.1 vs 40.7); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5 Mini and Ring-2.6-1T share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 Mini has 60 scored results on Noometry and Ring-2.6-1T has 3.

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