GPT-5 (2025-08-07) vs GPT-5

GPT-5 (2025-08-07) vs GPT-5: GPT-5 is cheaper by 9% on average. GPT-5 (2025-08-07) from Azure OpenAI (272,000-token context, reasoning, tool calls) vs. GPT-5 from OpenAI (272,000-token context, reasoning, tool calls). Use Agent Command Center to A/B both in shadow mode and pick the winner per workload.

Side-by-side cost

Live workload comparison

Same workload run through both models. The cheaper one is highlighted.

3,000
0272,000
400
0128,000
5,000
01,000,000
Azure OpenAI
$1,297/mo
Input $1.38/M · Output $11.00/M
GPT-5Cheaper
OpenAI
$1,179/mo
Input $1.25/M · Output $10.00/M
At this workload, GPT-5 is 9% cheaper than GPT-5 (2025-08-07) — a savings of $118/month ($1,415/year).
Production recipe — Agent Command Center
strategy: cost-optimized
primary:
  model: gpt-5
  provider: openai
fallback:
  model: eu-gpt-5-2025-08-07
  provider: azure-openai
shadow: { sample_rate: 0.05 }   # mirror 5% of traffic to compare quality live
GPT-5 (2025-08-07) GPT-5
Input price $1.38/M $1.25/M
Output price $11.00/M $10.00/M
Context window 272,000 272,000
Max output 128,000 128,000
Function calling
Vision
Audio input
Reasoning
Prompt caching
Structured output
Pricing verified May 12, 2026 May 12, 2026
Cheaper option
~9% cheaper than GPT-5 (2025-08-07)
Larger context
272,000 tokens
More capabilities
5 of 6 capability flags advertised

Benchmark comparison

Side-by-side public benchmark scores. Greener bar = winner.

Chatbot Arena ELOgeneral
GPT-5 (2025-08-07)
GPT-5
1,450
MATH-500math
GPT-5 (2025-08-07)
GPT-5
99.6%
AIME 2024math
GPT-5 (2025-08-07)
GPT-5
98.4%
BFCL v3agent
GPT-5 (2025-08-07)
GPT-5
96.3%
HumanEvalcode
GPT-5 (2025-08-07)
GPT-5
96.0%
IFEvalgeneral
GPT-5 (2025-08-07)
GPT-5
95.6%
AIME 2025math
GPT-5 (2025-08-07)
GPT-5
94.6%
LiveCodeBenchcode
GPT-5 (2025-08-07)
GPT-5
90.0%
MMLU-Proreasoning
GPT-5 (2025-08-07)
GPT-5
89.4%
Aider Polyglotcode
GPT-5 (2025-08-07)
GPT-5
88.0%
GPQA Diamondreasoning
GPT-5 (2025-08-07)
GPT-5
87.3%
MMMUmultimodal
GPT-5 (2025-08-07)
GPT-5
84.2%
SWE-bench Verifiedagent
GPT-5 (2025-08-07)
GPT-5
74.9%
Humanity's Last Examreasoning
GPT-5 (2025-08-07)
GPT-5
42.0%
ARC-AGI-2reasoning
GPT-5 (2025-08-07)
GPT-5
17.6%