All you need to know about GPT-5 for the weekend grill-party with your nerdy friends
- Anastasia Karavdina
- Aug 8
- 2 min read
GPT-5 is a ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐๐ข๐๐ ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ฆ with a smart and fast model that answers most questions, a deeper reasoning model for harder problems, andย ๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐ฅ-๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ๐๐ซย that quickly decides which model to use based on conversation type, complexity, tool needs, and explicit intentย (for example, if you say โthink hard about thisโ in the prompt).
In ChatGPT ๐ข๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐ฌ, without possibility to switch to older models as before. There are 3 modes: "GPT 5", "GPT 5 Thinking" and "GPT 5 Pro" (available only for Pro users).
Via API itโs available as three modes too (regular,ย miniย andย nano), which can each be run at one of four reasoning levels: minimal (a new level not previously available for other OpenAI reasoning models), low, medium or high.
In the API, all GPTโ5 models can accept a maximum of 272,000 input tokens and emit a maximum of 128,000 reasoning & output tokens, for a total context window length of ๐๐๐,๐๐๐ tokens (around 4 Harry Potter books). They support text and image for input, text only for output.
The pricing isย ๐๐ ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ย with other providers:
GPT-5: $1.25/million for input, $10/million for output
GPT-5 Mini: $0.25/m input, $2.00/m output
GPT-5 Nano: $๐.๐๐/m input, $๐.๐๐/m output
OpenAI claims this is the ๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐จ๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐จ๐๐ข๐ง๐ , with notable strengths in answering health-related questions. Early testers also highlight its strong โengineering brainโ: it tends to dive straight into executing technical tasks. This means that if you use it for product management, it might be less helpful than GPT-4o for your needs ๐ข
By the way, if you use Cursor, you can now switch to GPT-5 there as well โฌ๏ธ
Here is the joke GPT-5 generated about itself:
๐๐๐-5 ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฏโ๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐ด๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด. ๐๐ต ๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ด ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ข๐ด๐ฌ.
Have a great weekend and enjoy the party!
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