Model comparison

GPT-5 Nano vs o1-pro

GPT-5 Nano is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5 Nano OpenAI

33.4

Rank #234 Confirmed

o1-pro OpenAI

31.2

Rank #264 Reported

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. GPT-5 Nano scores higher in 1 category and o1-pro in 1 category; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-5 Nano leads 35.8 to 29.3.
  • GPT-5 Nano is cheaper at $0.05 / $0.40 per million input/output tokens, against $150 / $600 for o1-pro.
  • GPT-5 Nano accepts more context: 400K tokens versus 200K.

Side by side

GPT-5 Nano and o1-pro specifications
GPT-5 Nanoo1-pro
ProviderOpenAIOpenAI
Noometry Index33.431.2
Released2025-08-072025-03-19
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window400K200K
Max output128K100K
Input $ / M tokens$0.05$150
Output $ / M tokens$0.40$600
Results tracked483

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-5 Nano: 33.3 (#248), o1-pro: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 Nanoo1-pro
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)34.8%—
WeirdML38.1%—
LMArena Coding1351—
ALE-Bench718.67—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5 Nano: 25.6 (#99), o1-pro: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 Nanoo1-pro
Terminal-Bench21.8%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard51.5%—

Reasoning o1-pro leads

GPT-5 Nano: 16.4 (#291), o1-pro: 20.2 (#223)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 Nanoo1-pro
ARC-AGI-120.7%23.3%
ARC-AGI-22.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark62.2%—
Chess Puzzles27%—
EnigmaEval—6.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts1329—
Mystery Game Puzzles9%—
DTBench62.7%—
LMCA7.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index139.39—
ForecastBench59.1—

Math Not comparable

GPT-5 Nano: 29.1 (#221), o1-pro: —

Knowledge GPT-5 Nano leads

GPT-5 Nano: 35.8 (#166), o1-pro: 29.3 (#227)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 Nanoo1-pro
GPQA Diamond69.4%—
Humanity's Last Exam—8.1%
SimpleQA Verified11.7%—
MMLU-Pro77.8%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.5%—
GPQA (HELM)67.9%—
LMArena Expert1321—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5 Nano: 30.7 (#102), o1-pro: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 Nanoo1-pro
LMArena Vision1159—
VPCT37.2%—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5 Nano: 45.5 (#167), o1-pro: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 Nanoo1-pro
LMArena Non-English1313—
LMArena Chinese1355—
LMArena German1329—
LMArena Korean1269—
LMArena Russian1296—
LMArena Spanish1360—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5 Nano: 75.2 (#72), o1-pro: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 Nanoo1-pro
IFEval93.2%—
LMArena Instruction Following1306—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5 Nano: 31.3 (#275), o1-pro: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 Nanoo1-pro
Fiction.LiveBench44.4%—
LMArena Longer Query1313—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5 Nano: 39.4 (#244), o1-pro: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 Nanoo1-pro
LMArena Text1320—
LMArena Creative Writing1250—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing705—
WildBench80.6%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1311—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5 Nano better than o1-pro?

GPT-5 Nano is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5 Nano or o1-pro?

GPT-5 Nano is cheaper. It lists at $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens; o1-pro lists at $150 and $600.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5 Nano does, with 400K tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5 Nano and o1-pro share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. GPT-5 Nano has 48 scored results on Noometry and o1-pro has 3.

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