1. Best-in-Class Coding & Collaboration
OpenAI presents GPT‑5 through its API as the most advanced model yet for coding and agentic tasks. It leads flagship benchmarks:
- 74.9% on SWE‑bench Verified
- 88% on Aider Polyglot
What makes it standout:
- Excels at tasks like bug fixing, code editing, and comprehending large codebases
- Produces front-end UI code with high aesthetic quality, preferred over previous model “o3” 70% of the time
- Developers reported GPT‑5 is “smartest coding model they’ve used“—easy to steer, with a distinct personality

2. Powerful Agentic Performance
GPT‑5 establishes new records on agent-centric benchmarks:
- 96.7% on τ²‑bench telecom
- 69.6% on Scale MultiChallenge (instruction following)
It demonstrates reliable tool chaining, error handling, and long-context retrieval. On the BrowseComp Long Context benchmark (128–256K tokens), it answers correctly 89% of the timeOpenAI
3. More Flyweight, More Flexible
Developers gain new tools to tailor responses:
verbosity
: choose betweenlow
,medium
, orhigh
output lengthreasoning_effort
: options ofminimal
,medium
, orhigh
for speed vs. depthOpenAIminimal reasoning
reduces latency with prioritized quick responsesOpenAI
4. Enhanced Tool Ecosystem
GPT‑5 API introduces richer interaction capabilities:
- Preamble messages before and during tool actions to provide progress feedback
- Support for custom tools accepting plaintext (not just JSON) and allowing developer-defined grammars
- Improved tool reliability, handling errors and workflows more gracefullyOpenAI
5. Massive Context Capacity & Trust
The model supports up to 400K token context (272K input + 128K output), enabling extremely long sessions or documents
It also offers fewer factual errors (~80% reduction vs. o3) on benchmarks like LongFact and FactScore. This makes it especially suited for use cases that need precision, like coding or enterprise environments
6. Safety & Availability
GPT‑5 is OpenAI’s safest, most reliable model to date—less prone to hallucinations, more transparent in its limitations, and highly aligned with safety standards
Available now across APIs:
- gpt-5, gpt‑5‑mini, gpt‑5‑nano
- Accessible via Responses API, Chat Completions API, and Codex CLI
- Fully supports prompt caching, streaming, structured outputs, batch API, and built-in tools like search and image generation
Also integrated deeply into Microsoft’s ecosystem, including GitHub Copilot, Azure AI Foundry, and Microsoft 365 Copilot, with enterprise-grade safety and compliance
Final Take
GPT-5 for Developers delivers on multiple fronts:
- Superior coding intelligence that surpasses previous API models
- Agentic task mastery, chaining tools with finesse
- Precise developer controls via verbosity and reasoning settings
- Massive context support and strong factuality
- Rock-solid safety and enterprise availability
This release marks a new era for developers and organizations—where building complex, long-running, and trustworthy AI solutions becomes both practical and powerful. If you’d like, I can help craft sample prompts or tool integrations to make the most of GPT-5’s developer features.