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GPT-5 vs GPT-5 Nano

16 results from 4 sources that measured both models. Each row is in the source's own units; there is no overall winner.

GPT-5
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BenchmarkMetricGPT-5GPT-5 Nano
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedBusiness, management and financeArena rating 1,4131,339
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedCreative writingArena rating 1,3731,247
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedExpert promptsArena rating 1,4601,354
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedInstruction followingArena rating 1,4101,327
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedOverallArena rating 1,4351,338
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedWriting, literature and languageArena rating 1,3971,289
Artificial AnalysisreportedArtificial Analysis Intelligence Indexindex score 23.013.0
Artificial AnalysisreportedGPQA Diamond% of questions 85.4%67.6%
Artificial AnalysisreportedHumanity's Last Exam% of questions 28.5%9.5%
Artificial AnalysisreportedIFBench% of instructions 73.1%67.6%
Artificial AnalysisreportedLong-context reasoning (AA-LCR)% of questions 78.2%45.0%
Artificial AnalysisreportedTerminal-Bench Hard% of tasks 37.9%17.4%
Artificial AnalysisreportedΤ²-bench telecom% of tasks 86.5%36.5%
SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI)reportedCorrect answers% of questions 50.1%11.7%
Vectara Hallucination LeaderboardreportedAnswer rate% of documents 99.9%100.0%
Vectara Hallucination LeaderboardreportedHallucination rate% of summaries 14.7%10.5%

Bold green marks the better value on that metric. Where a source reports ranges that overlap, the difference may not be meaningful; see the benchmark page for ranges.