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See how OpenAI's models evolved by answering the same challenge across generations.

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OpenAI

OpenAI

Leading AI research lab behind GPT and successor models that revolutionized the field with human-like text generation.

Total Models

46

Text Models

37

Image Models

9

Active Period

Jun 2018 – Mar 2026

Founded Dec 2015, transitioned to 'capped-profit' structure in 2019.

Major partnership and $13B+ investment from Microsoft.

Pioneered GPT-1 through GPT-4.1 and O-series reasoning models.

Created DALL-E for image gen, Sora for video gen.

Launched ChatGPT (Nov 2022), catalyzing widespread AI adoption.

Compare OpenAI Models

GPT-5.4

Mar 2026

GPT-5.4 is OpenAI's latest frontier model, unifying the Codex and GPT lines into a single system. It features a 1M+ token context window (922K input, 128K output) with support for text and image inputs, enabling high-context reasoning, coding, and multimodal analysis within the same workflow. The model delivers improved performance in coding, document understanding, tool use, and instruction following.

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GPT-5.4 Pro

Mar 2026

GPT-5.4 Pro is OpenAI's most advanced model, building on GPT-5.4's unified architecture with enhanced reasoning capabilities for complex, high-stakes tasks. It features a 1M+ token context window (922K input, 128K output) with support for text and image inputs. Optimized for step-by-step reasoning, instruction following, and accuracy, GPT-5.4 Pro excels at agentic coding, long-context workflows, and multi-step problem solving.

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GPT-5.3 Chat

Mar 2026

GPT-5.3 Chat is an update to ChatGPT's most-used model that makes everyday conversations smoother, more useful, and more directly helpful. It delivers more accurate answers with better contextualization and significantly reduces unnecessary refusals, caveats, and overly cautious phrasing that can interrupt conversational flow. The model is more willing to engage with nuanced topics, produces cleaner and more natural prose, and maintains strong performance across reasoning, coding, and creative tasks while feeling less robotic in casual interaction.

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GPT-5.3-Codex

Feb 2026

GPT-5.3-Codex is OpenAI's most advanced agentic coding model, combining the frontier software engineering performance of GPT-5.2-Codex with the broader reasoning and professional knowledge capabilities of GPT-5.2. It achieves state-of-the-art results on SWE-Bench Pro and strong performance on Terminal-Bench 2.0 and OSWorld-Verified, reflecting improved multi-language coding, terminal proficiency, and real-world computer-use skills. The model is optimized for long-running, tool-using workflows and supports interactive steering during execution, making it suitable for complex development tasks, debugging, deployment, and iterative product work.

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GPT Image 1.5

Dec 2025

OpenAI's latest image generation model with strong instruction following, optional transparent backgrounds, and quality controls.

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GPT Image 1.5 (Low)

Dec 2025

GPT Image 1.5 with `quality=low` for faster and cheaper generations.

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GPT Image 1.5 (Medium)

Dec 2025

GPT Image 1.5 with `quality=medium` for balanced cost and quality.

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GPT Image 1.5 (High)

Dec 2025

GPT Image 1.5 with `quality=high` for maximum fidelity.

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GPT-5.2 Chat

Dec 2025

GPT-5.2 Chat (AKA Instant) is the fast, lightweight member of the 5.2 family, optimized for low-latency chat while retaining strong general intelligence. It uses adaptive reasoning to selectively "think" on harder queries, improving accuracy on math, coding, and multi-step tasks without slowing down typical conversations. The model is warmer and more conversational by default, with better instruction following and more stable short-form reasoning. GPT-5.2 Chat is designed for high-throughput, interactive workloads where responsiveness and consistency matter more than deep deliberation.

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GPT-5.2

Dec 2025

GPT-5.2 is the latest frontier-grade model in the GPT-5 series, offering stronger agentic and long context performance compared to GPT-5.1. It uses adaptive reasoning to allocate computation dynamically, responding quickly to simple queries while spending more depth on complex tasks. Built for broad task coverage, GPT-5.2 delivers consistent gains across math, coding, science, and tool calling workloads, with more coherent long-form answers and improved tool-use reliability.

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GPT-5.2 Pro

Dec 2025

GPT-5.2 Pro is OpenAI's most advanced model, offering major improvements in agentic coding and long context performance over GPT-5 Pro. It is optimized for complex tasks that require step-by-step reasoning, instruction following, and accuracy in high-stakes use cases. It supports test-time routing features and advanced prompt understanding, including user-specified intent like "think hard about this." Improvements include reductions in hallucination, sycophancy, and better performance in coding, writing, and health-related tasks.

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GPT-5.1 Codex Max

Dec 2025

GPT-5.1 Codex Max model integrated via automation on 2025-12-04

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GPT-5.1

Nov 2025

GPT-5.1 is the latest frontier-grade model in the GPT-5 series, offering stronger general-purpose reasoning, improved instruction adherence, and a more natural conversational style compared to GPT-5. It uses adaptive reasoning to allocate computation dynamically, responding quickly to simple queries while spending more depth on complex tasks.

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GPT-5.1 Chat

Nov 2025

GPT-5.1 Chat (AKA Instant) is the fast, lightweight member of the 5.1 family, optimized for low-latency chat while retaining strong general intelligence. It uses adaptive reasoning to selectively think on harder queries, improving accuracy on math, coding, and multi-step tasks without slowing down typical conversations.

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GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini

Nov 2025

GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini is a smaller and faster version of GPT-5.1-Codex, optimized for coding tasks with lower latency while maintaining strong code generation capabilities.

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GPT-5.1-Codex

Nov 2025

GPT-5.1-Codex is a specialized version of GPT-5.1 optimized for software engineering and coding workflows. It is designed for both interactive development sessions and long, independent execution of complex engineering tasks including building projects from scratch, feature development, debugging, large-scale refactoring, and code review.

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GPT-5 Pro

Oct 2025

GPT-5 Pro is OpenAI’s most advanced model, offering major improvements in reasoning, code quality, and user experience. Optimized for complex, high-stakes tasks that demand step-by-step reasoning, instruction following, and accuracy. Supports test-time routing controls and advanced prompt understanding, including intent cues like "think hard about this". Delivers reduced hallucination, lower sycophancy, and stronger performance across coding, writing, and health-related workloads.

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GPT-5 Codex

Sep 2025

GPT-5 Codex model integrated via automation on 2025-09-23

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GPT-5

Aug 2025

OpenAI’s most advanced model, offering major improvements in reasoning, code quality, and user experience. Optimized for complex tasks that require step-by-step reasoning, instruction following, and accuracy in high-stakes use cases. Supports test-time routing and advanced prompt understanding (e.g., "think hard about this"). Reductions in hallucination/sycophancy with better performance in coding, writing, and health-related tasks.

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GPT-5 Mini

Aug 2025

GPT-5 Mini is a compact version of GPT-5, designed to handle lighter-weight reasoning tasks. It provides the same instruction-following and safety-tuning benefits as GPT-5, but with reduced latency and cost. GPT-5 Mini is the successor to OpenAI's o4-mini model. Context window: 400,000 tokens.

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GPT-5 Nano

Aug 2025

GPT-5 Nano model integrated via automation on 2025-08-07

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GPT OSS 20B

Aug 2025

OpenAI's efficient open-weight model featuring 21B parameters with MoE architecture, optimized for edge deployment and consumer hardware. Matches o3-mini performance while requiring only 16GB memory, making it ideal for on-device AI applications.

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GPT OSS 120B

Aug 2025

OpenAI's first open-weight model since GPT-2, featuring 117B parameters with MoE architecture. Designed for high-reasoning, agentic, and general-purpose production use cases with configurable reasoning depth and native tool use.

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GPT Audio

Jun 2025

OpenAI's first generally available audio model. Features an upgraded decoder for more natural sounding voices and maintains better voice consistency. Supports both text and audio input/output.

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GPT Audio Mini

Jun 2025

Cost-efficient version of GPT Audio. Features an upgraded decoder for more natural sounding voices and better voice consistency at a fraction of the cost.

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OpenAI Codex Mini

May 2025

codex-mini-latest is a fine-tuned version of o4-mini specifically for use in Codex CLI. For direct use in the API, we recommend starting with gpt-4.1.

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OpenAI o3

Apr 2025

OpenAI's most powerful reasoning model, pushing the frontier across coding, math, science, and visual perception. Trained to think longer before responding and agentically use tools (web search, code execution, image generation) to solve complex problems. Sets new SOTA on benchmarks like Codeforces and MMMU.

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OpenAI o4-mini

Apr 2025

A smaller, cost-efficient reasoning model from OpenAI optimized for speed. Achieves remarkable performance for its size, particularly in math, coding, and visual tasks. Supports significantly higher usage limits than o3 and can agentically use tools.

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OpenAI o4 Mini High

Apr 2025

OpenAI o4-mini-high is the same model as o4-mini but defaults to a high reasoning effort setting. It's a compact reasoning model optimized for speed and cost-efficiency, retaining strong multimodal and agentic capabilities, especially in math, coding, and visual tasks.

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GPT-4.1

Apr 2025

GPT-4.1 is a flagship large language model optimized for advanced instruction following, real-world software engineering, and long-context reasoning. It supports a 1 million token context window and outperforms GPT-4o and GPT-4.5 across coding (54.6% SWE-bench Verified), instruction compliance (87.4% IFEval), and multimodal understanding benchmarks. It is tuned for precise code diffs, agent reliability, and high recall in large document contexts, making it ideal for agents, IDE tooling, and enterprise knowledge retrieval.

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GPT-4.1 Nano

Apr 2025

For tasks that demand low latency, GPT‑4.1 nano is the fastest and cheapest model in the GPT-4.1 series. It delivers exceptional performance at a small size with its 1 million token context window, and scores 80.1% on MMLU, 50.3% on GPQA, and 9.8% on Aider polyglot coding – even higher than GPT‑4o mini. It's ideal for tasks like classification or autocompletion.

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GPT-4.1 Mini

Apr 2025

GPT-4.1 Mini is a mid-sized model delivering performance competitive with GPT-4o at substantially lower latency and cost. It retains a 1 million token context window and scores 45.1% on hard instruction evals, 35.8% on MultiChallenge, and 84.1% on IFEval. Mini also shows strong coding ability (e.g., 31.6% on Aider's polyglot diff benchmark) and vision understanding, making it suitable for interactive applications with tight performance constraints.

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ChatGPT-4o (March 2025)

Mar 2025

An updated version of GPT-4o that feels more intuitive, creative, and collaborative. Follows instructions more accurately, handles coding tasks more smoothly, and communicates in a clearer, more natural way with more concise responses and fewer markdown levels.

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GPT-4o Audio

Mar 2025

GPT-4o with audio input support. Detects nuances within audio recordings and adds depth to generated user experiences. Processes both text and audio prompts.

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GPT-4.5

Feb 2025

GPT-4.5 is a step forward in scaling up pre-training and post-training. With broader knowledge, improved intent understanding, and greater 'EQ', it excels at natural conversations, writing, programming, and practical problem solving with reduced hallucinations. GPT-4.5 achieved 62.5% accuracy on SimpleQA and a 37.1% hallucination rate, significantly outperforming GPT-4o and other models.

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o3 Mini

Dec 2024

o3 Mini is a smaller, more efficient version of the o3 model, optimized for faster response times and lower computational costs while maintaining high-quality outputs.

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o1

Dec 2024

o1 achieves 86% accuracy on Mathematics Olympiad benchmarks (vs. GPT-4o's 13%), offers PhD-level STEM proficiency, and is built with extensive alignment training and safety evaluation.

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GPT-4o mini

Jul 2024

GPT-4o mini is OpenAI's newest model after GPT-4 Omni, supporting both text and image inputs with text outputs. As their most advanced small model, it is many multiples more affordable than other recent frontier models, and more than 60% cheaper than GPT-3.5 Turbo. It maintains SOTA intelligence, while being significantly more cost-effective.

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GPT-4o (Omni)

May 2024

GPT-4o processes text, images, and audio through a unified transformer architecture and offers real-time translation for 154 languages with 89.2% BLEU score on low-resource languages.

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OpenAI TTS-1 HD

Apr 2024

OpenAI's high-definition text-to-speech model with six built-in voices. Clear, natural speech optimized for quality over latency.

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OpenAI TTS-1

Nov 2023

OpenAI's standard text-to-speech model optimized for low latency. Supports 6 voices and multiple output formats. Offers faster generation than TTS-1-HD with slightly lower quality.

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DALL-E 3

Sep 2023

DALL-E 3 auto-improves user inputs via ChatGPT integration and blocks prohibited content with 99.9% precision using multimodal classifiers.

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GPT-4

May 2023

OpenAI's flagship model, GPT-4 is a large-scale multimodal language model capable of solving difficult problems with greater accuracy than previous models due to its broader general knowledge and advanced reasoning capabilities. Training data: up to Sep 2021.

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GPT-3.5 Turbo

Mar 2022

GPT-3.5 Turbo is OpenAI's fastest model. It can understand and generate natural language or code, and is optimized for chat and traditional completion tasks.

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GPT-2

Nov 2019

A direct scale-up of GPT-1 with 1.5 billion parameters, trained on 8 million web pages. Known for its ability to generate coherent text, sometimes indistinguishable from humans, but could be repetitive.

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GPT-1

Jun 2018

The first large-scale transformer-based language model released by OpenAI, trained on the BooksCorpus dataset. This version is accessed via the Hugging Face model hub (`openai-community/openai-gpt`).

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