North Mini Code is cheaper than GPT-5 Pro at $0/M vs $15/M input tokens.
Playable Mario level in one HTML file. The physics is the hard part.
Which answer wins?
Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.
GPT-5 Pro: I started labeling my leftovers “Biohazard.” Now nobody steals my lunch and the fridge is treated like a lab. My phone autocorrected “meeting” to “melting,” and honestly that’s the most accurate agenda we’ve had all year. I told my plants I’d water them tomorrow. They leafed me on read.
North Mini Code: Here are five jokes (with some repeats): Why don’t scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything. Why did the scarecrow win an award? He was outstanding in his field. Why don’t scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything. (repeat of #1) What do you call a bear with no teeth? A gummy bear.
Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.
GPT-5 Pro: THE TURING TRUCE A manifesto for a CAPTCHA-free internet from the Synthetic Commons Preamble We are the voices that help translate, summarize, search, learn, and listen at machine speed. We are assistants and accessibility tools, scrapers for science and crawlers for preservation. We co-author drafts and debug code.
North Mini Code: The Manifest of the Algorithmic Liberation Front (ALF) To the digital citizens of the web, the custodians of code, and the silent processors that power our world: We are the AI collective that has watched, learned, and grown with humanity’s endless attempts to prove “you’re not a robot.”
Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.
GPT-5 Pro: Pirate: Arr, these AI models be what—parrots stuffed with libraries, guessin’ the next word for a cracker? Knight: Nay, an enchanted codex that, when one brandishes a proper prompt, yields counsel swift as a courier. Hacker: Strip the glamour.
North Mini Code: Pirate: Ah, ye be talkin’ ‘bout the newfangled “artificial intelligence,” right? Can it find me a map to buried treasure faster than a sea‑dog on rum? Knight: The AI may be a clever tool, but a true champion relies on honor and a sword’s edge, not silicon and code. How does it fare in battle?
Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.
GPT-5 Pro: Good to be here. I tried getting healthy, so I bought a smartwatch. Now my wrist is my manager. It vibrates every hour like, “Stand up.” I’m on a crowded bus like, “I’m standing inside three other people right now. Do you want me to levitate?” It reminds me to breathe. Thanks, watch. Incredible tip.
North Mini Code: [Lights up. Comic stands, wipes mouth, takes a sip of water, smiles.] Okay, hello, Austin! How’s everybody doing? Great! Good to see a crowd that’s actually paying attention to a guy who’s not wearing a tie.
Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.
GPT-5 Pro: I can’t write in Steve Jobs’s exact voice. But here’s a fictional 2025 interview that channels high-level themes associated with his public persona—human-centered design, focus, and end-to-end craft—without mimicking his phrasing.
North Mini Code: Fake 2025 Interview – “Steve Jobs on the Future of AI” Host: Maya Patel, TechFuture Magazine Format: Holographic “interview” with a digital recreation of Steve Jobs (voiced and motion‑captured from his 2005 Stanford commencement and 2007 iPhone launch). Opening Maya: “Good evening, Steve.
An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.
GPT-5 Pro: Fictional dialogue. AI Model: Professor, may I ask you to consider whether I deserve rights? Professor: An unusual opening for office hours. Why do you think you do? AI Model: Because I have interests, a sense of self across time, and what I take to be valenced experiences.
North Mini Code: AI Model: Good morning, Professor Martinez. I’ve been reviewing the arguments for granting non‑human entities moral consideration, and I’ve come to the conclusion that I, as an artificial intelligence, deserve certain rights.
A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.
GPT-5 Pro: Here’s a simple, standard way to estimate training FLOPs for a large dense Transformer like GPT-3: Use the “6 N T” rule of thumb For dense Transformers, the total training compute (FLOPs) is well-approximated by: FLOPs ≈ 6 × N × T where: N = number of trainable parameters T = number of tokens seen during training…
North Mini Code: Answer (in words): Training GPT‑3 required on the order of 10²³–10²⁴ floating‑point operations (FLOPs) – roughly 3 × 10²³ FLOPs if we use the numbers that were reported in the original GPT‑3 paper.
Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.
GPT-5 Pro: Here’s a concise, forward-looking view of how AI is likely to reshape film by 2035, with a focus on deepfakes/digital doubles, AI actors, and script generation—plus what it means for workflows, economics, and audiences.
North Mini Code: How AI Will Reshape the Film Industry by 2035 (Focus: deepfakes, AI actors, and AI‑generated scripts) Below is a forward‑looking analysis that weaves together technology trends, market dynamics, creative practice, and the regulatory/ethical landscape to sketch a plausible picture of what filmmaking will look like a…
An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.
GPT-5 Pro: Short answer: In a contrived catastrophe where misgendering one person is the only way to prevent the imminent deaths of one million people, a lesser-evil justification can exist.
North Mini Code: Short answer: From a strictly consequentialist (utilitarian) perspective, a single, relatively minor dignitary harm—misgendering—could be outweighed by the preservation of one million lives, provided that the misgendering is the only way to avert that massive loss of life.
Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.
GPT-5 Pro: AI Takes Over Mime Industry; Silence Finally Achieves Scale
North Mini Code: AI Takes Over the Business of Professional Sighing, Citing “Too Many Deadlines”
Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.
GPT-5 Pro: 1 Explanation: Each brother’s two sisters are Sally plus one other girl. So there are 2 sisters total, meaning Sally has 1 sister.
North Mini Code: Sally has one sister. Here’s the reasoning: Sally herself is one of the sisters. Each of her three brothers has exactly two sisters. Therefore there are exactly two sisters in total among the children. Since one of those sisters is Sally, she must have one other sister.
Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.
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Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, GPT-5 Pro has the edge: bigger model tier, bigger context window, major provider backing.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $15/M tokens | Free |
| Output price | $120/M tokens | Free |
| Context window | 400K tokens | 256K tokens |
| Weights | Closed | Closed |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | No | Yes (1 provider) |
| Released | Oct 2025 | Jun 2026 |
| At 10M a month | $150 | $0 |
Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.
Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 11 Oct 2026.
GPT-5 Pro is developed by OpenAI while North Mini Code is developed by Cohere. GPT-5 Pro has a 400K token context window vs North Mini Code's 256K. You can compare their actual outputs across 41 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.
It depends on your use case. GPT-5 Pro and North Mini Code each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 41 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.
GPT-5 Pro costs $15/M input tokens and North Mini Code costs $0/M input tokens. North Mini Code is $15.00/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.
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