Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-5 leads with 31.3% higher average benchmark score. GPT-5 offers 462.5K more tokens in context window than GPT-4. GPT-5 is $78.75 cheaper per million tokens. Overall, GPT-5 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
OpenAI
GPT-4 was created as a large multimodal model capable of accepting image and text inputs while producing text outputs. Developed to exhibit human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks, it marked a significant advancement in reliability, creativity, and handling of nuanced instructions compared to its predecessors.
OpenAI
GPT-5 represents the next generation of OpenAI's foundational models, developed to advance the frontier of AI capabilities in reasoning, knowledge, and general intelligence. Built to push beyond the limitations of GPT-4, it incorporates architectural and training improvements designed to enhance performance across diverse tasks and domains.
2 years newer

GPT-4
OpenAI
2023-06-13

GPT-5
OpenAI
2025-08-07
Cost per million tokens (USD)

GPT-4

GPT-5
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

GPT-4

GPT-5
GPT-4
2022-12-31
GPT-5
2024-09-30
Available providers and their performance metrics

GPT-4
Azure
OpenAI


GPT-4

GPT-5

GPT-4

GPT-5
GPT-5
OpenAI
ZeroEval