Fit and price
Recruitment fit
78
Per hour
$0.499
Per minute
$0.0083
30-min interview
$0.249
About
GPT-5 was the first GPT to expose reasoning effort as a first-class parameter, and the first with a 400K context window. Superseded by 5.6 for new work, but still a sensible floor for cost-sensitive pipelines that were built against it.
- Reasoning effort control
- Tool use
- Structured outputs
- Vision
Strengths and watch-outs
Strengths
- 400K context
- Well-understood behaviour in existing pipelines
Watch out for
- Superseded, avoid for new builds
Best for Pipelines pinned to GPT-5
3 variants
StandardHigh
Full model with selectable effort from minimal to high.
5×
rel. cost
88
quality
MiniBalanced
Cheaper sibling for well-specified tasks.
1×
rel. cost
76
quality
NanoMini
Cheapest rung, classification and extraction only.
0.2×
rel. cost
62
quality