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GPT-5 (medium)

GPT-5 (medium) is a budget text-first model from OpenAI with a heavy runtime profile, unknown context posture, and the clearest fit around agent workflows / reasoning.

Best for: Agent workflows / ReasoningHeavy latencyUnknown contextBudget pricing
Intelligence
42.0

Benchmark blend

Coding
39.0

Dev workflow signal

Context
N/A

Unknown

Input Price
$1.25

Budget tier

Decision snapshot
44

GPT-5 (medium) currently reads as a budget text-first option with unknown context and a heavy runtime profile.

Overall profile
Use-case specific
Best for
Agent workflows / Reasoning
Latency tier
Heavy
Price tier
Budget
Source coverage
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Decision Strip

Decision rail before the raw tables

Core buy-side signals stay in one pass. The rest of the page expands only after intelligence, speed, context, and price are clear.

Intelligence
42.0
42

General reasoning and benchmark headroom.

Situational
Speed
64 tok/s
23

TTFT 62.21s

Limited
Context
N/A
34

How much prompt and task state can stay in view.

Limited
Price
$1.25
86

$10.00 output / 1M

Efficient

Editorial Profile

GPT-5 (medium) in one narrative

Positioning, tradeoffs, and fit are consolidated into one read instead of repeating the same story across separate cards.

Use-case specificCoding score 39Math score 92

The GPT-5 (medium) AI model by OpenAI.

Identity

OpenAI text-first profile

Positioning

Agent workflows / Reasoning with unknown context and heavy runtime.

Cost posture

Efficient spend profile. More comfortable for sustained prompt volume if the capability fit is right.

Strengths

  • The available source data suggests a balanced profile rather than one dominant edge.

Tradeoffs

  • Budget-friendly input pricing is a strength, but raw capability may vary by workload.

  • Latency profile is better for deliberate runs than rapid back-and-forth chat.

  • Current metadata points to a text-first profile rather than a broad multimodal one.

Best fit

  • Focused chat, retrieval-augmented flows, and narrower production tasks.

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Benchmarks

Grouped by job-to-be-done

Only benchmark categories with actual signal are shown. Secondary values stay as simple definitions instead of nested micro-cards.

General intelligence

Broad reasoning, knowledge depth, and flagship benchmark posture.

Intelligence Index
42.0
MMLU Pro
86.7%
GPQA
84.2%
HLE
23.5%
Coding

Software implementation, debugging quality, and coding benchmark signal.

Coding Index
39.0
LiveCodeBench
0.703
SciCode
41.1%
Math

Formal reasoning, structured problem solving, and competition-style math.

Math Index
91.7
AIME
91.7%
AIME 2025
91.7%
Math 500
99.1%
Agent / tool use

Long-horizon execution quality and interactive benchmark evidence.

IFBench
70.6%
TAU2
86.5%
TerminalBench Hard
37.9%
LCR
72.8%

Specs & Pricing

Technical snapshot and cost posture

Specs stay neutral, pricing gets emphasis through values rather than extra containers. Raw provider internals remain in metadata at the end.

Technical snapshot
Context Window
N/A
Vision
Text-first
Price architecture
Input
per 1M input tokens
$1.25
Output
per 1M output tokens
$10.00
Blended
AA 3:1 mix
$3.44

This model is relatively efficient on price. It is the easier fit when sustained prompt volume matters.

Metadata

Raw source tables at the end

Verification details remain available, but the page no longer forces them ahead of the editorial read.