Model comparison

GPT-5 vs Ring-2.6-1T

GPT-5 has enough public results to be ranked (#45); Ring-2.6-1T does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5 OpenAI

50.9

Rank #45 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 scores higher in 2 categories and Ring-2.6-1T in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5 leads 38.3 to 26.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is CritPt: 12.6% for GPT-5 and 3.7% for Ring-2.6-1T.
  • Ring-2.6-1T has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5 and Ring-2.6-1T specifications
GPT-5Ring-2.6-1T
ProviderOpenAIAnt Group (inclusionAI)
Noometry Index50.936.9
Released2025-08-072026-05-14
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.25—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked693

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 50.3 (#47), Ring-2.6-1T: 40.7

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Ring-2.6-1T
SciCode42.9%42.4%
ALE-Bench1,162432.57
SWE-bench Verified73.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)65%—
Aider Polyglot88%—
LMArena WebDev1418—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML60.7%—
LMArena Coding1436—
AlgoTune1.67—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5: 33.1 (#56), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Ring-2.6-1T
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), Ring-2.6-1T: 26.1

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Ring-2.6-1T
CritPt12.6%3.7%
ARC-AGI-29.9%—
SimpleBench56.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark72.7%—
ARC-AGI-165.7%—
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), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-5: 56.6 (#43), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Ring-2.6-1T
GPQA Diamond86.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam25.3%—
SimpleQA Verified50.1%—
MMLU-Pro86.3%—
Confabulations10.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate14.7%—
GPQA (HELM)79.2%—
LMArena Expert1419—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5: 46.8 (#13), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Ring-2.6-1T
LMArena Vision1232—
GeoBench81%—
VPCT66%—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5: 51.4 (#110), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Ring-2.6-1T
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), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Ring-2.6-1T
IFEval87.5%—
LMArena Instruction Following1388—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5: 69.5 (#2), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Ring-2.6-1T
Fiction.LiveBench97.2%—
LMArena Longer Query1399—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5: 63.4 (#65), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Ring-2.6-1T
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 Ring-2.6-1T?

GPT-5 has enough public results to be ranked (#45); Ring-2.6-1T does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

GPT-5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 40.7 in the Noometry coding category.

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

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and Ring-2.6-1T has 3.

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