Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-5 leads with 22.9% higher average benchmark score. GPT-5 offers 395.9K more tokens in context window than GPT-4.5. GPT-5 is $213.75 cheaper per million tokens. Overall, GPT-5 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
OpenAI
GPT-4.5 was developed as an intermediate advancement between GPT-4 and GPT-5, designed to incorporate incremental improvements in reasoning, factuality, and instruction-following. Built to bridge generational capabilities while maintaining compatibility with existing applications, it represents a refinement of the GPT-4 architecture with enhanced performance characteristics.
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.
5 months newer

GPT-4.5
OpenAI
2025-02-27

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

GPT-4.5

GPT-5
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 13 common benchmarks

GPT-4.5

GPT-5
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories

GPT-4.5

GPT-5
GPT-5
2024-09-30
Available providers and their performance metrics

GPT-4.5
OpenAI

GPT-5

GPT-4.5

GPT-5

GPT-4.5

GPT-5
OpenAI
ZeroEval