Side by side

GPT-4o vs GPT-5

Up to 4 models, normalised onto the same cost basis and scored through the lens you pick.

Cost of talking
Per minute$0.016$0.0083
Per hour$0.949$0.499
30-min interview$0.474$0.249
List price$2.5 / $10 per 1MPublished$1.25 / $10 per 1MPublished
Recruitment fit
Overall66/10078/100
VerdictOnly worth choosing today for its realtime voice variant; the text tiers are outclassed.Still capable for screening work, but 5.6 does the same job cheaper and faster.
Best for
Live voice screening where latency dominates
Existing pipelines already pinned to GPT-5
Watch out for
  • 128K context is limiting for long interview transcripts
  • Reasoning is well behind current models
  • Superseded — no reason to start here on a new build
Capabilities
Modalitiestext, audiotext
Context window128K400K
VariantsStandard, Mini, RealtimeStandard, Mini, Nano
On HumanLikeNot yetNot yet
Published benchmarks
MMLU88.7%Published

Cost per hour assumes 150 wpm and a 40% AI speaking share. Hover a figure for its full derivation.