Model comparison

GPT-5 vs Hy4 preview

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 45.3 on the Noometry Index. Hy4 preview costs 3.1× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5 OpenAI

50.9

Rank #45 Confirmed

Hy4 preview Tencent

45.3

Rank #73 Reported

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 scores higher in 1 category and Hy4 preview in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5 leads 38.3 to 31.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ProofBench: 18% for GPT-5 and 75% for Hy4 preview.
  • Hy4 preview is cheaper at $0.75 / $2.25 per million input/output tokens, against $1.25 / $10 for GPT-5.
  • Hy4 preview accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 400K.
  • Hy4 preview has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5 and Hy4 preview specifications
GPT-5Hy4 preview
ProviderOpenAITencent
Noometry Index50.945.3
Released2025-08-072026-08-28
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K1.05M
Max output128K64K
Input $ / M tokens$1.25$0.75
Output $ / M tokens$10$2.25
Results tracked693

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Category by category

Coding Hy4 preview leads

GPT-5: 50.3 (#47), Hy4 preview: 51.6 (#38)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Hy4 preview
LMArena WebDev14181632
SWE-bench Verified73.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)65%—
Aider Polyglot88%—
SciCode42.9%—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML60.7%—
LMArena Coding1436—
ALE-Bench1,162—
AlgoTune1.67—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5: 33.1 (#56), Hy4 preview: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Hy4 preview
Terminal-Bench49.6%—
GDPval34.8%—
Remote Labor Index1.7%—
DeepResearch Bench49.6%—
BALROG32.8%—
LMArena Search1133—
METR Time Horizons69.6%—

Reasoning GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 38.3 (#64), Hy4 preview: 31.9 (#79)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Hy4 preview
ARC-AGI-29.9%—
SimpleBench56.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark72.7%—
NYT Connections (extended)—68.2%
ARC-AGI-165.7%—
CritPt12.6%—
Chess Puzzles37%—
EnigmaEval10.5%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1416—
Mystery Game Puzzles23%—
DTBench90.7%—
LMCA40%—
Epoch Capabilities Index150—
ForecastBench61.4—

Math Too close to call

GPT-5: 55.0 (#44), Hy4 preview: 55.7 (#42)

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-5: 56.6 (#43), Hy4 preview: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Hy4 preview
GPQA Diamond86.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam25.3%—
SimpleQA Verified50.1%—
MMLU-Pro86.3%—
Confabulations10.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate14.7%—
GPQA (HELM)79.2%—
LMArena Expert1419—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5: 46.8 (#13), Hy4 preview: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Hy4 preview
LMArena Vision1232—
GeoBench81%—
VPCT66%—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5: 51.4 (#110), Hy4 preview: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Hy4 preview
LMArena Non-English1397—
LMArena Chinese1422—
LMArena French1410—
LMArena German1416—
LMArena Japanese1409—
LMArena Korean1360—
LMArena Russian1406—
LMArena Spanish1399—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5: 73.8 (#113), Hy4 preview: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Hy4 preview
IFEval87.5%—
LMArena Instruction Following1388—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5: 69.5 (#2), Hy4 preview: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Hy4 preview
Fiction.LiveBench97.2%—
LMArena Longer Query1399—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5: 63.4 (#65), Hy4 preview: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Hy4 preview
LMArena Text1406—
LMArena Creative Writing1365—
Short-Story Creative Writing86%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1627—
WildBench85.7%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1426—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5 better than Hy4 preview?

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 45.3 on the Noometry Index. Hy4 preview costs 3.1× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5 or Hy4 preview?

Hy4 preview is cheaper. It lists at $0.75 per million input tokens and $2.25 per million output tokens; GPT-5 lists at $1.25 and $10.

Is GPT-5 or Hy4 preview better for coding?

Hy4 preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 50.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Hy4 preview does, with 1.05M tokens against 400K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5 and Hy4 preview share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and Hy4 preview has 3.

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