Notes on OpenAI GPT 5
OpenAI has released much hyped gpt-5
From the looks of it, it is going to be a really power model with better pricing.
They claim it is the best model for agentic tasks and coding
It has 4 variants
| Variant | Best for |
|---|---|
| gpt-5 | - Complex reasoning - Broad world knowledge - Code Heavy or multi-step agentic tasks |
| gpt-5-mini | - Cost-optimized reasoning and chat - Balances speed, cost, and capability |
| gpt-5-nano | - High-throughput tasks especially simple instruction-following or classification |
| gpt-5-chat | - Designed for advanced, natural, multimodal, and context-aware conversations for enterprise applications. |
**## Pricing In term of pricing it is actually better than the previous models and also majority of the competitors
Here is the standard pricing.
If you want faster processing then you can set service_tier=priority when making the request.
Similarly, the pricing for Batch/Flex is follow
Highlights
- 400k context window
- 128k max output token
- Tool support in Responsese
- Web Search
- MCP
- Image generation
- Support for fine tuning
There is a really good article in Latent Space which covers more about it. GPT-5 Hands-On: Welcome to the Stone Age
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