OpenAI introduces ChatGPT 5 – Here’s all you need to know

OpenAI has officially launched GPT-5, marking a major milestone in the evolution of artificial intelligence. Representing a significant leap in capability and intelligence, GPT-5 sets a new standard with its state-of-the-art performance across a wide range of domains, including coding, mathematics, writing, healthcare, visual understanding, and more.

What sets GPT-5 apart is its ability to adapt its thinking in real time it can respond instantly when needed, but also knows when to pause and reason deeply, delivering expert-level insights with precision. This makes it the most refined and reliable AI model OpenAI has released to date.

GPT-5 is now available to all users. Plus subscribers benefit from increased usage limits, while Pro subscribers gain access to GPT-5 Pro a specialized version of the model offering enhanced reasoning capabilities for more comprehensive, accurate, and context-aware responses.

A Smarter, More Widely Useful Model

GPT-5 represents a significant leap forward in both performance and intelligence. Built as a unified system, it adapts seamlessly to user needs: offering fast responses for simple questions, switching to deeper reasoning when faced with complex problems, and intelligently choosing between the two using a real-time decision router.

This router trained continuously using real-world feedback like user preferences, model switches, and accuracy ratings ensures that every response is as helpful and relevant as possible. Even when usage limits are reached, lighter versions of the model step in to maintain functionality without sacrificing quality. Future updates will further streamline these capabilities into a single, integrated model.

Expert-Level Performance Across Key Domains

GPT-5 offers state-of-the-art results across key areas:Writing: More coherent, personalized, and stylistically aware.Math: Higher accuracy with step-by-step reasoning for complex problems.

Health: Improved safety, contextual understanding, and usefulness for health-related queries.

Visual Perception: Stronger image interpretation and description.

Instruction Following: Better at understanding nuanced prompts, delivering more useful and grounded results.

Crucially, GPT-5 also addresses persistent challenges seen in earlier models. It reduces hallucinations, improves factual consistency, follows instructions more closely, and limits sycophantic or overly agreeable responses—making it a more trustworthy assistant in high-stakes scenarios.

Unmatched Coding Capabilities

With GPT-5, OpenAI introduces its strongest coding model yet. It excels at front-end generation, debugging large codebases, and design-focused development. Whether building responsive websites or intuitive apps, GPT-5 often delivers high-quality results in a single prompt complete with clean layouts, elegant typography, and smart spacing.

Developers using GPT-5 have reported major improvements in its ability to handle both logic and design fluently, significantly reducing iteration time and improving output quality. Full developer tools and documentation are available for those looking to unlock its capabilities in technical workflows.

Access and Availability

GPT-5 is available to all ChatGPT users.

Plus subscribers enjoy expanded access with higher usage limits.

Pro subscribers get GPT-5 Pro a premium version with extended reasoning abilities, designed for deeper analysis and even more accurate results.

As OpenAI continues to refine GPT-5’s thinking architecture, the company remains committed to ensuring AI is both powerful and safe, useful not just in theory but in everyday life, across industries and disciplines.

Aggresive Pricing

OpenAI has positioned GPT-5 with aggressively competitive pricing, aiming to make its most advanced capabilities accessible to a wider range of users and businesses.

Here’s how the pricing breaks down:

GPT-5:
$1.25 per million input tokens
$10.00 per million output tokens

GPT-5 Mini:
$0.25 per million input tokens
$2.00 per million output tokens

GPT-5 Nano:
$0.05 per million input tokens
$0.40 per million output tokens

Compared to GPT-4o, GPT-5 cuts input costs in half, while maintaining the same output rate. However, users should note that GPT-5’s advanced reasoning capabilities involve invisible reasoning tokens, which are billed as output. This means that, unless the reasoning level is explicitly set to “minimal,” many prompts may generate higher output token usage than their GPT-4o equivalents.

This pricing strategy not only delivers more value per dollar but also reflects GPT-5’s smarter use of resources—prioritizing depth, accuracy, and responsiveness.