GPT-5

GPT-5 is a family of large language models by OpenAI launched on August 7, 2025. It launched on August 7, 2025 with Instant and Thinking variants.

The launch coincided with a real-time model router being added to ChatGPT, marketed as a “unified system” replacing GPT-4o, o3, o4-mini, GPT-4.5, and GPT-4.1.1

GPT-5 was succeeded by GPT-5.1 in November 2025.

Instant models (gpt-5-chat-latest)

GPT-5 Instant refers to various model snapshots that were used as the “fast” model in ChatGPT, as well as under the moving gpt-5-chat-latest alias on the API.

Other models

Legacy

GPT-5 was succeeded by GPT-5.1 in November 2025.

Snapshots

Footnotes

  1. Introducing GPT-5 (OpenAI, Aug 7, 2025)

  2. ChatGPT Release Notes (OpenAI, Aug 15, 2025)

  3. [Addendum to GPT-5 System Card: Sensitive Conversations] (OpenAI, Oct 27, 2025)

  4. Model Release Notes (OpenAI Help Center)

  5. ChatGPT Release Notes (OpenAI Help Center)

  6. [Strengthening ChatGPT’s responses in sensitive conversations] (OpenAI, Oct 27, 2025)

Models

GPT-5 Pro2025-10-06Deprecated
GPT-5 Thinking2025-08-07Deprecated400K$1.25 / $10
GPT-5 Instant2025-08-07Deprecated128K$1.25 / $10
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