When was GPT-5 released?

OpenAI released GPT-5 on August 7, 2025.

GPT-5: release date and what it's for

Released August 7, 2025, according to OpenAI's announcement. Shuts down on 11 December 2026, along with GPT-5 Mini and nano. If you pinned to it a year ago, that's your deadline.

Status: Deprecated
Released: Aug 7, 2025
Lab: OpenAI
Input: $1.25per million tokens
Output: $10per million tokens
Context window: 400Ktokens
Max output: 128Ktokens

API model ID: gpt-5

What we've written about GPT-5

October 11, 2026

Microsoft builds Decision-1 on Alibaba's Qwen and plans to move it to OpenAI and MAI models

The model scores a fixed list of choices instead of writing answers, and Microsoft puts it 35 times quicker than GPT-6 Sol.

September 23, 2026

OpenAI model release dates: o3, GPT-5.5 and GPT-6 Astra, Sol and Luna in order

o3 is from April 2025, and the name Sol now means something different from what it meant in July.

How GPT-5 compares on price and context

Price per million tokens

inputoutput

GPT-6 Astra$10 / $50
Claude Fable 5.1$10 / $50
GPT-5$1.25 / $10
GPT-6 Sol$2 / $10
Muse Spark 1.3$1.25 / $4.25
Gemini 3.8 Flash$0.75 / $3.75
GPT-6 Luna$0.10 / $0.50

Context window, in tokens

how much it reads at once

Next to the newest OpenAI models and the current model from other labs. Prices are in US dollars per million tokens.

What is GPT-5?

GPT-5 is a model from OpenAI, built in the US. The lab has put it on the retirement list. Move off it.

When did GPT-5 come out?

OpenAI released it on August 7, 2025. That date comes from OpenAI's announcement.

GPT-5: release date and what it's for

What we've written about GPT-5

Microsoft builds Decision-1 on Alibaba's Qwen and plans to move it to OpenAI and MAI models

OpenAI model release dates: o3, GPT-5.5 and GPT-6 Astra, Sol and Luna in order

How GPT-5 compares on price and context

What is GPT-5?

When did GPT-5 come out?

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