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GPT-5 nano

35 benchmarks · 62 observations · 38 sources · released 2025-08-07

Scores at a glance

35 benchmarks · large dot: GPT-5 nano; small dots: closest models where reported

95.2495.24

GPT-5 nano (medium) · MATH level 5 · Best score (across scorers) · % ↗

1 more reported result

94.9% · GPT-5 nano (high) · MATH level 5 · Best score (across scorers) · % · Epoch AI · MATH level 5 ↗

3.0784.72

GPT-5 nano (unknown thinking) · Terminal Bench · Accuracy mean · % ↗

8 more reported results

11.46% · GPT-5 nano (unknown thinking) · Terminal Bench · Accuracy mean · % · Epoch AI · Terminal Bench ↗

9.89% · GPT-5 nano (unknown thinking) · Terminal Bench · Accuracy mean · % · Epoch AI · Terminal Bench ↗

7.87% · GPT-5 nano (unknown thinking) · Terminal Bench · Accuracy mean · % · Epoch AI · Terminal Bench ↗

6.97% · GPT-5 nano (unknown thinking) · Terminal Bench · Accuracy mean · % · Epoch AI · Terminal Bench ↗

11.5% · GPT-5 nano (medium) · Terminal Bench · Accuracy mean · % · Epoch AI · Terminal Bench ↗

9.9% · GPT-5 nano (medium) · Terminal Bench · Accuracy mean · % · Epoch AI · Terminal Bench ↗

7.9% · GPT-5 nano (medium) · Terminal Bench · Accuracy mean · % · Epoch AI · Terminal Bench ↗

7% · GPT-5 nano (medium) · Terminal Bench · Accuracy mean · % · Epoch AI · Terminal Bench ↗

37.237.2

GPT-5 nano (high) · VPCT · Correct · % ↗

1 more reported result

35.4% · GPT-5 nano (medium) · VPCT · Correct · % · Epoch AI · VPCT ↗

2.7868.26

GPT-5 nano (high) · LMCA · Score · % ↗

41.6598.93

GPT-5 nano (high) · DTBench · Accuracy · % ↗

EconBench ↗0.0636 error points
0.060.06

gpt-5-nano · EconBench · EconBench prototype · risk-consistency error · published prototype observations ↗

Closest models by score

Similar positions on shared benchmark leaderboards. Smaller gaps are closer.

16.9 percentile-point gap

11 of 16 shared benchmark comparisons

How similarity is measured

Mean absolute gap in percentile positions on shared benchmark settings; lower is closer. At least 60% overlap is required, with a minimum of three when available. Independent evaluations are used when there are at least three; otherwise published report comparisons are used. Repeated model observations within one setting are averaged before ranking. Writing-style traits and composite indices are excluded. This describes similarity, not an overall quality ranking.

Sources

Every plotted observation links to its evaluation. Reported configurations, benchmark versions and task subsets can differ; similarity describes shared scores, not training lift.

  1. CMT-Benchmark: A Benchmark for Condensed Matter Theory Built by Expert Researchers — published result table ↗

    Pan, Haining, Roggeveen, James V., Berg, Erez, Carrasquilla, Juan, Chowdhury, Debanjan, Ganguli, Surya et al. · 2025

    All 19 authors

    Pan, Haining, Roggeveen, James V., Berg, Erez, Carrasquilla, Juan, Chowdhury, Debanjan, Ganguli, Surya, Ghimenti, Federico, Hasik, Juraj, Hunt, Henry, Jiang, Hong-Chen, Kamb, Mason, Kao, Ying-Jer, Khatami, Ehsan, Lawler, Michael J., Luo, Di, Neupert, Titus, Qi, Xiaoliang, Brenner, Michael P., Kim, Eun-Ah

  2. DTBench — Conceptual Reasoning Index ↗

    Conceptual Reasoning Index

  3. LMCA — Conceptual Reasoning Index ↗

    Conceptual Reasoning Index

  4. EconBench: Economic choice by language models — gpt-5-nano prototype metrics ↗

    EconBench project · 2026

  5. ARC-AGI-1 ↗

    Epoch AI

  6. ARC-AGI-2 ↗

    Epoch AI

  7. Chess Puzzles ↗

    Epoch AI

  8. FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1, old) ↗

    Epoch AI

  9. FrontierMath Tier 4 (v2) ↗

    Epoch AI

  10. FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (v1, old) ↗

    Epoch AI

  11. FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (v2) ↗

    Epoch AI

  12. GPQA Diamond ↗

    Epoch AI

  13. MATH Level 5 ↗

    Epoch AI

  14. Mystery Game Puzzles ↗

    Epoch AI

  15. OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 ↗

    Epoch AI

  16. SimpleQA Verified ↗

    Epoch AI

  17. Terminal-Bench 2.0 ↗

    Epoch AI

  18. Capabilities & benchmarking — retained external evaluation records ↗

    Epoch AI · 2026

  19. AI benchmarks & capabilities ↗

    Epoch AI

  20. Fiction.liveBench — March 14, 2025 benchmark release ↗

    Fiction.live · 2025

  21. WeirdML ↗

    Håvard Tveit Ihle

  22. Terminal-Bench 2.0 leaderboard ↗

    Terminal-Bench Team

  23. AIME — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  24. CaseLaw — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  25. GPQA Diamond — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  26. LiveCodeBench — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  27. LegalBench — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  28. MATH 500 — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  29. MedCode — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  30. MedQA — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  31. MedScribe — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  32. MGSM — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  33. MMLU Pro — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  34. MMMU Pro — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  35. MortgageTax — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  36. ProofBench — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  37. SAGE — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  38. TaxEval — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

Names used in source tables

GPT 5 Nano · GPT-5 nano · GPT-5 nano (high) · GPT-5 nano (low) · GPT-5 nano (medium) · GPT-5 nano (unknown thinking) · GPT-5-nano · gpt-5-nano