Model comparison

GPT-5 vs o1-mini

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 29 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5 OpenAI

50.9

Rank #45 Confirmed

o1-mini OpenAI

34.0

Rank #235 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 29 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 scores higher in 9 categories and o1-mini in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5 leads 38.3 to 8.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 88% for GPT-5 and 32.9% for o1-mini.

Side by side

GPT-5 and o1-mini specifications
GPT-5o1-mini
ProviderOpenAIOpenAI
Noometry Index50.934.0
Released2025-08-072024-09-12
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.25—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked6939

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 50.3 (#47), o1-mini: 35.5 (#224)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5o1-mini
Aider Polyglot88%32.9%
WeirdML60.7%36.3%
LMArena Coding14361362
SWE-bench Verified73.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)65%—
LMArena WebDev1418—
SciCode42.9%—
GSO6.9%—
LiveBench Coding—48%
ALE-Bench1,162—
AlgoTune1.67—
HumanEval+—89%
MBPP+—78.8%

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 33.1 (#56), o1-mini: 24.6 (#118)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5o1-mini
Terminal-Bench49.6%—
GDPval34.8%—
Remote Labor Index1.7%—
Cybench—10%
DeepResearch Bench49.6%—
BALROG32.8%—
LMArena Search1133—
METR Time Horizons69.6%—

Reasoning GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 38.3 (#64), o1-mini: 8.8 (#346)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5o1-mini
ARC-AGI-29.9%0.8%
SimpleBench56.7%18.1%
ARC-AGI-165.7%14%
LMArena Hard Prompts14161333
Epoch Capabilities Index150135.82
Kagi LLM Benchmark72.7%—
CritPt12.6%—
Chess Puzzles37%—
EnigmaEval10.5%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
LiveBench Reasoning—72.3%
Mystery Game Puzzles23%—
DTBench90.7%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—57.9%
LMCA40%—
ForecastBench61.4—
LiveBench—57.8%

Math GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 55.0 (#44), o1-mini: 35.4 (#186)

Knowledge GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 56.6 (#43), o1-mini: 34.9 (#192)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5o1-mini
GPQA Diamond86.2%62.4%
Confabulations10.3%18.6%
LMArena Expert14191316
Humanity's Last Exam25.3%—
SimpleQA Verified50.1%—
MMLU-Pro86.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate14.7%—
GPQA (HELM)79.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5: 46.8 (#13), o1-mini: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5o1-mini
LMArena Vision1232—
GeoBench81%—
VPCT66%—

Multilingual GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 51.4 (#110), o1-mini: 43.6 (#182)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5o1-mini
LMArena Non-English13971289
LMArena Chinese14221314
LMArena French14101293
LMArena German14161278
LMArena Japanese14091245
LMArena Korean13601223
LMArena Russian14061283
LMArena Spanish13991303

Instruction Following GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 73.8 (#113), o1-mini: 66.7 (#206)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5o1-mini
LMArena Instruction Following13881304
LiveBench Instruction Following—65.4%
IFEval87.5%—

Long Context GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 69.5 (#2), o1-mini: 40.1 (#161)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5o1-mini
LMArena Longer Query13991320
Fiction.LiveBench97.2%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 63.4 (#65), o1-mini: 48.4 (#202)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5o1-mini
LMArena Text14061317
LMArena Creative Writing13651244
Short-Story Creative Writing86%64.9%
LMArena Multi-Turn14261314
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1627—
WildBench85.7%—
LiveBench Language—40.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5 better than o1-mini?

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5 or o1-mini better for coding?

GPT-5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 35.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5 and o1-mini share?

29 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and o1-mini has 39.

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