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GPT-5 vs o3
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Winner summary
GPT-5 wins on 30/35 benchmarks
GPT-5 wins 30 of 35 shared benchmarks. Leads in coding · agentic · reasoning.
Category leads
coding·GPT-5agentic·GPT-5reasoning·GPT-5knowledge·GPT-5general·GPT-5math·GPT-5language·GPT-5
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
GPT-5
#100 by perf·#4 by attention
o3
#111 by perf·no signal
Vendor risk
Who is behind the model
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Head to head
35 benchmarks · 2 models
GPT-5o3
Aider polyglot
GPT-5 leads by +6.7
Aider Polyglot · measures how well AI models can edit code across multiple programming languages using the Aider coding assistant framework.
GPT-5
88.0
o3
81.3
APEX-Agents
GPT-5 leads by +1.1
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
GPT-5
18.3
o3
17.2
ARC-AGI
GPT-5 leads by +4.8
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
GPT-5
65.7
o3
60.8
ARC-AGI-2
GPT-5 leads by +3.3
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
GPT-5
9.9
o3
6.5
Chess Puzzles
o3 leads by +1.0
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
GPT-5
33.7
o3
34.8
DeepResearch Bench
GPT-5 leads by +4.4
DeepResearch Bench · evaluates AI on complex multi-step research tasks requiring information gathering, synthesis, and producing comprehensive analyses.
GPT-5
49.6
o3
45.2
Dtbench
GPT-5 leads by +9.8
GPT-5
84.5
o3
74.7
Fiction.LiveBench
GPT-5 leads by +8.3
Fiction.LiveBench · a continuously updated benchmark using recently published fiction to test reading comprehension and reasoning, preventing data contamination.
GPT-5
97.2
o3
88.9
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
GPT-5 leads by +13.7
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
GPT-5
32.4
o3
18.7
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private
GPT-5 leads by +9.0
FrontierMath Tier 4 (Jul 2025) · the most challenging tier of frontier mathematics, containing problems that push the absolute limits of AI mathematical reasoning.
GPT-5
12.5
o3
3.5
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private
GPT-5 leads by +22.1
GPT-5
55.4
o3
33.3
Gdpval
GPT-5 leads by +4.0
GPT-5
34.8
o3
30.8
GeoBench
GPT-5 leads by +7.0
GeoBench · tests geographic knowledge and spatial reasoning across countries, landmarks, coordinates, and geopolitical understanding.
GPT-5
81.0
o3
74.0
GPQA diamond
GPT-5 leads by +5.8
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
GPT-5
81.6
o3
75.8
GSO-Bench
o3 leads by +1.9
GSO-Bench · evaluates AI models on real-world open-source software engineering tasks, testing the ability to understand and resolve actual GitHub issues.
GPT-5
6.9
o3
8.8
HELM · GPQA
GPT-5 leads by +3.8
GPT-5
79.1
o3
75.3
HELM · IFEval
GPT-5 leads by +0.6
GPT-5
87.5
o3
86.9
HELM · MMLU-Pro
GPT-5 leads by +0.4
GPT-5
86.3
o3
85.9
HELM · Omni-MATH
o3 leads by +6.7
GPT-5
64.7
o3
71.4
HELM · WildBench
o3 leads by +0.4
GPT-5
85.7
o3
86.1
HLE
GPT-5 leads by +5.3
HLE (Humanity's Last Exam) · a reasoning benchmark designed to be the hardest public evaluation of AI. Questions span mathematics, physics, philosophy, and logic · curated to be at or beyond the frontier of human expert capability. Tested with and without tool augmentation. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 46.9% without tools and 54.7% with tools · making it one of the few benchmarks where the top score is below 60%.
GPT-5
21.6
o3
16.3
Lech Mazur Writing
GPT-5 leads by +2.1
Lech Mazur Writing · evaluates creative writing ability, assessing prose quality, narrative coherence, and stylistic sophistication.
GPT-5
86.0
o3
83.9
Lmca
GPT-5 leads by +0.3
GPT-5
47.0
o3
46.7
MATH level 5
GPT-5 leads by +0.4
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
GPT-5
98.1
o3
97.8
Metr Time Horizons
GPT-5 leads by +4.2
GPT-5
69.6
o3
65.4
Mystery Game Puzzles
o3 leads by +6.6
GPT-5
15.2
o3
21.8
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
GPT-5 leads by +6.9
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
GPT-5
91.4
o3
84.4
Professional Reasoning · Finance
GPT-5 leads by +3.6
GPT-5
51.3
o3
47.7
Professional Reasoning · Legal
GPT-5 leads by +0.4
GPT-5
49.0
o3
48.6
SimpleBench
GPT-5 leads by +4.3
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
GPT-5
48.0
o3
43.7
SimpleQA Verified
GPT-5 leads by +0.7
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
GPT-5
50.1
o3
49.4
SWE-Bench verified
GPT-5 leads by +11.2
SWE-bench Verified · 500 human-validated tasks from 12 real Python repositories (Django, Flask, scikit-learn, sympy, and others). Each task requires the model to produce a git patch that resolves a real GitHub issue and passes the test suite. The verified subset eliminates ambiguous tasks from the original SWE-bench. Claude Mythos Preview leads at 93.9%, crossing 90% for the first time in 2026. Opus 4.6 scores 80.8%. The benchmark remains the most-cited evaluation for code-generation capability.
GPT-5
73.5
o3
62.3
SWE-Bench Verified (Bash Only)
GPT-5 leads by +6.6
SWE-Bench Verified (Bash Only) · a curated subset of SWE-bench where models fix real Python repository bugs using only bash commands, no agent frameworks.
GPT-5
65.0
o3
58.4
VPCT
GPT-5 leads by +21.0
VPCT (Visual Pattern Completion Test) · tests visual reasoning and pattern recognition by having models complete visual sequences and transformations.
GPT-5
49.0
o3
28.0
WeirdML
GPT-5 leads by +8.3
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
GPT-5
60.7
o3
52.4
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | GPT-5 | o3 |
|---|---|---|
Aider polyglot Aider Polyglot · measures how well AI models can edit code across multiple programming languages using the Aider coding assistant framework. | 88.0 | 81.3 |
APEX-Agents APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments. | 18.3 | 17.2 |
ARC-AGI ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization. | 65.7 | 60.8 |
ARC-AGI-2 ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data. | 9.9 | 6.5 |
Chess Puzzles Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities. | 33.7 | 34.8 |
DeepResearch Bench DeepResearch Bench · evaluates AI on complex multi-step research tasks requiring information gathering, synthesis, and producing comprehensive analyses. | 49.6 | 45.2 |
Dtbench | 84.5 | 74.7 |
Fiction.LiveBench Fiction.LiveBench · a continuously updated benchmark using recently published fiction to test reading comprehension and reasoning, preventing data contamination. | 97.2 | 88.9 |
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning. | 32.4 | 18.7 |
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private FrontierMath Tier 4 (Jul 2025) · the most challenging tier of frontier mathematics, containing problems that push the absolute limits of AI mathematical reasoning. | 12.5 | 3.5 |
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private | 55.4 | 33.3 |
Gdpval | 34.8 | 30.8 |
GeoBench GeoBench · tests geographic knowledge and spatial reasoning across countries, landmarks, coordinates, and geopolitical understanding. | 81.0 | 74.0 |
GPQA diamond Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs. | 81.6 | 75.8 |
GSO-Bench GSO-Bench · evaluates AI models on real-world open-source software engineering tasks, testing the ability to understand and resolve actual GitHub issues. | 6.9 | 8.8 |
HELM · GPQA | 79.1 | 75.3 |
HELM · IFEval | 87.5 | 86.9 |
HELM · MMLU-Pro | 86.3 | 85.9 |
HELM · Omni-MATH | 64.7 | 71.4 |
HELM · WildBench | 85.7 | 86.1 |
HLE HLE (Humanity's Last Exam) · a reasoning benchmark designed to be the hardest public evaluation of AI. Questions span mathematics, physics, philosophy, and logic · curated to be at or beyond the frontier of human expert capability. Tested with and without tool augmentation. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 46.9% without tools and 54.7% with tools · making it one of the few benchmarks where the top score is below 60%. | 21.6 | 16.3 |
Lech Mazur Writing Lech Mazur Writing · evaluates creative writing ability, assessing prose quality, narrative coherence, and stylistic sophistication. | 86.0 | 83.9 |
Lmca | 47.0 | 46.7 |
MATH level 5 MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics. | 98.1 | 97.8 |
Metr Time Horizons | 69.6 | 65.4 |
Mystery Game Puzzles | 15.2 | 21.8 |
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills. | 91.4 | 84.4 |
Professional Reasoning · Finance | 51.3 | 47.7 |
Professional Reasoning · Legal | 49.0 | 48.6 |
SimpleBench SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking. | 48.0 | 43.7 |
SimpleQA Verified SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information. | 50.1 | 49.4 |
SWE-Bench verified SWE-bench Verified · 500 human-validated tasks from 12 real Python repositories (Django, Flask, scikit-learn, sympy, and others). Each task requires the model to produce a git patch that resolves a real GitHub issue and passes the test suite. The verified subset eliminates ambiguous tasks from the original SWE-bench. Claude Mythos Preview leads at 93.9%, crossing 90% for the first time in 2026. Opus 4.6 scores 80.8%. The benchmark remains the most-cited evaluation for code-generation capability. | 73.5 | 62.3 |
SWE-Bench Verified (Bash Only) SWE-Bench Verified (Bash Only) · a curated subset of SWE-bench where models fix real Python repository bugs using only bash commands, no agent frameworks. | 65.0 | 58.4 |
VPCT VPCT (Visual Pattern Completion Test) · tests visual reasoning and pattern recognition by having models complete visual sequences and transformations. | 49.0 | 28.0 |
WeirdML WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns. | 60.7 | 52.4 |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens