Model comparison

GPT-5 vs Jamba Large

GPT-5 has enough public results to be ranked (#45); Jamba Large does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5 OpenAI

50.9

Rank #45 Confirmed

Jamba Large AI21 Labs

33.1

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 scores higher in 2 categories and Jamba Large in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5 leads 38.3 to 18.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 72.7% for GPT-5 and 26.1% for Jamba Large.
  • Both cost about the same: $1.25 input and $10 output per million tokens.
  • GPT-5 accepts more context: 400K tokens versus 256K.
  • Jamba Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5 and Jamba Large specifications
GPT-5Jamba Large
ProviderOpenAIAI21 Labs
Noometry Index50.933.1
Released2025-08-072025-07-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K256K
Max output128K4K
Input $ / M tokens$1.25$2
Output $ / M tokens$10$8
Results tracked692

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-5: 50.3 (#47), Jamba Large: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Jamba Large
SWE-bench Verified73.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)65%—
Aider Polyglot88%—
LMArena WebDev1418—
SciCode42.9%—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML60.7%—
LMArena Coding1436—
ALE-Bench1,162—
AlgoTune1.67—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5: 33.1 (#56), Jamba Large: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Jamba Large
Terminal-Bench49.6%—
GDPval34.8%—
Remote Labor Index1.7%—
DeepResearch Bench49.6%—
BALROG32.8%—
LMArena Search1133—
METR Time Horizons69.6%—

Reasoning GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 38.3 (#64), Jamba Large: 18.0

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Jamba Large
Kagi LLM Benchmark72.7%26.1%
ARC-AGI-29.9%—
SimpleBench56.7%—
ARC-AGI-165.7%—
CritPt12.6%—
Chess Puzzles37%—
EnigmaEval10.5%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1416—
Mystery Game Puzzles23%—
DTBench90.7%—
LMCA40%—
Epoch Capabilities Index150—
ForecastBench61.4—

Math Not comparable

GPT-5: 55.0 (#44), Jamba Large: —

Knowledge GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 56.6 (#43), Jamba Large: 37.7

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Jamba Large
Vectara Hallucination Rate14.7%9.7%
GPQA Diamond86.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam25.3%—
SimpleQA Verified50.1%—
MMLU-Pro86.3%—
Confabulations10.3%—
GPQA (HELM)79.2%—
LMArena Expert1419—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5: 46.8 (#13), Jamba Large: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Jamba Large
LMArena Vision1232—
GeoBench81%—
VPCT66%—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5: 51.4 (#110), Jamba Large: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Jamba Large
LMArena Non-English1397—
LMArena Chinese1422—
LMArena French1410—
LMArena German1416—
LMArena Japanese1409—
LMArena Korean1360—
LMArena Russian1406—
LMArena Spanish1399—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5: 73.8 (#113), Jamba Large: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Jamba Large
IFEval87.5%—
LMArena Instruction Following1388—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5: 69.5 (#2), Jamba Large: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Jamba Large
Fiction.LiveBench97.2%—
LMArena Longer Query1399—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5: 63.4 (#65), Jamba Large: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Jamba Large
LMArena Text1406—
LMArena Creative Writing1365—
Short-Story Creative Writing86%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1627—
WildBench85.7%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1426—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5 better than Jamba Large?

GPT-5 has enough public results to be ranked (#45); Jamba Large does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5 or Jamba Large?

GPT-5 is cheaper. It lists at $1.25 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens; Jamba Large lists at $2 and $8.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5 does, with 400K tokens against 256K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5 and Jamba Large share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and Jamba Large has 2.

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