GPT-5 Nano
GPT-5 NanoRankingat high effort?
Alternatives?
CheaperQwen 3.5 Flashunstatedwins 60%-17%$0.065 / $0.26BetterGPT-5 Minihighwins 57%+400%$0.053
OpenMiMo v2.6 Prounstatedwins 74%+295%$0.43 / $0.87Pass back reasoning_content+3
CheaperGemma 3 27BunstatedOpensame-27%$0.08 / $0.16Context: 400K → 131KCheaperGPT OSS 120BunstatedOpensame-56%$0.03 / $0.15Context: 400K → 131K+1Qwen 3.5 Flashunstatedwins 60%-17%$0.065 / $0.26Gemma 3 27BunstatedOpensame-27%$0.08 / $0.16Context: 400K → 131KGPT OSS 120BunstatedOpensame-56%$0.03 / $0.15Context: 400K → 131K+1
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BunstatedOpensame-24%$0.06 / $0.24Context: 400K → 131K+1
Granite 4.2 8BunstatedOpensame-22%$0.06 / $0.25Context: 400K → 128K+1GPT-5 Minihighwins 57%+400%$0.053GPT-6 Lunamaxwins 64%+45%$0.068Function calling only with none · Chat Completions+3
Claude Haiku 5.5highwins 65%+45%$0.079Remove sampling parameters+5GPT-5.6 Lunaxhighwins 68%+227%$0.085GPT-5.6 Terraxhighwins 70%+3,173%$0.63Prompts with >272K input tokensMiMo v2.6 ProunstatedOpenwins 74%+295%$0.43 / $0.87Pass back reasoning_content+3
Kimi K3maxOpenwins 74%+4,264%$2.00Sampling parameters are fixed+3
GLM 5.3maxOpenwins 73%+1,464%$2.01No image input+4GLM 5.3 FlashunstatedOpenwins 73%+73%$0.15 / $0.50Defaults to max · Self-hosted+4MiMo v2.5 ProunstatedOpenwins 73%+295%$0.43 / $0.87No image inputGPT-5.6 Solxhighwins 73%—$1.18GPT-5.5highwins 73%—$1.40Prompts with >272K input tokensGPT-5.4highwins 72%—$2.50 / $15GPT-6.1 Solmaxwins 72%—$0.72Remove unsupported parameters+5GPT-5.6 Terraxhighwins 70%—$0.63Prompts with >272K input tokensGPT-6 Astramaxwins 70%—$3.26Monitoring can return HTTP 403+2GPT-5.1highwins 69%—$1.25 / $10GPT-5.6 Lunaxhighwins 68%—$0.085All OpenAI models →History
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How much does GPT-5 Nano cost?›
$0.05 per 1M input tokens and $0.40 per 1M output tokens; cached input $0.005 per 1M.
Is GPT-5 Nano free to use?›
There is no free API; the cheapest paid price is $0.05 per 1M input tokens.
How good is GPT-5 Nano, and what is it best at?›
#201 of 336 in Chat & Knowledge, #117 of 239 in Coding, #132 of 242 in Agents & Tool Use, #153 of 197 in Writing & Language, #96 of 125 in Vision & Documents. Strongest at: Instructions.
Is GPT-5 Nano better than Command A?›
On Arena Text · instruction following, GPT-5 Nano scores 1,306.1 vs 1,308.7 — about the same.
How can I use GPT-5 Nano?›
Through the API of Azure, OpenAI.
What is the context window of GPT-5 Nano?›
400K tokens, with up to 128K output tokens.
When was GPT-5 Nano released? Is there a newer version?›
Released 2025-08-07. It has been superseded by GPT-5.6 Luna.
Is GPT-5 Nano open source?›
No, GPT-5 Nano is a closed model available through an API. The closest open-weights option here is MiMo v2.6 Pro.
Can GPT-5 Nano read images?›
It accepts text and images, PDF files as input.
What is GPT-5 Nano?›
GPT-5 Nano is a closed language model from OpenAI, released Aug 2025.
What are the best alternatives to GPT-5 Nano?›
Qwen 3.5 Flash (cheaper), GPT-5 Mini (better), MiMo v2.6 Pro (open weights).