Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-5 Mini supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
GPT-5 mini, released by OpenAI in August 2025, is a smaller variant from the GPT-5 family that inherits GPT-5's unified reasoning architecture and multimodal capabilities at a reduced inference cost. It targets high-volume production use cases requiring a balance of intelligence and response speed, offering GPT-5 capabilities for applications where full GPT-5 inference costs are a concern.
NVIDIA
Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Ultra-253B-v1 is a 253-billion-parameter model from NVIDIA, derived from Meta's Llama 3.1 405B using neural architecture search (NAS) compression combined with NVIDIA's Nemotron post-training pipeline, which recovers and exceeds the base model's capability after structural compression. Released in April 2025, it supports toggling between a standard instruction mode and an extended reasoning mode via system prompt, allowing the same model to handle both rapid responses and deliberate chain-of-thought tasks. It is the flagship of the Nemotron family, available open-weight on HuggingFace and through NVIDIA NIM for enterprise inference.
3 months newer

Llama-3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B
NVIDIA
2025-04-07

GPT-5 Mini
OpenAI
2025-08
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-5 Mini
OpenAI
Llama-3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B
GPT-5 Mini
Llama-3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B
GPT-5 Mini
Llama-3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B