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How smart is GPT-5 nano?

105 SI-IQ · 90% interval 102–109
Rank 65 of 80 ranked models · Plausible rank range 56–68

GPT-5 nano is a model from OpenAI, released on Aug 7, 2025. Its SI-IQ is 105 (90% interval 102–109), estimated from 10 benchmark results by 3 independent evaluators. Its strongest area is Reasoning and its weakest is Knowledge.

Facts

Developer
OpenAI
Released
Aug 7, 2025
Access
API access
Benchmarks used
10 results from 3 evaluators
API price
$0.05 input / $0.40 output per 1M tokens (developer's price list, Oct 18, 2026)
Context window
272,000 tokens

Ability by area (SI-IQ, 90% interval)

6080100120140160Reasoning112Math106Knowledge95Agents97

Every benchmark result we used

Each score is one value exactly as the source published it: for Epoch AI the best of its run settings, for OpenRouter the median hosting provider (the developer's own hosting when it ran the test). “Implied SI-IQ” is the ability that this single result points to; the overall SI-IQ is their precision-weighted average.

Benchmark Area Score Implied SI-IQ Evaluated by As listed by the source Retrieved Source
Chess Puzzles Reasoning 22.0% 114 Epoch AI gpt-5-nano-2025-08-07_high Oct 18, 2026 Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub · data file
Mystery Game Puzzles Reasoning 9.0% 70 Epoch AI gpt-5-nano-2025-08-07_medium Oct 18, 2026 Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub · data file
FrontierMath Tier 4 Math 2.4% 109 Epoch AI gpt-5-nano-2025-08-07_high Oct 18, 2026 Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub · data file
FrontierMath Tiers 1–3 Math 20.0% 106 Epoch AI gpt-5-nano-2025-08-07_high Oct 18, 2026 Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub · data file
MATH Level 5 Math 95.2% 105 Epoch AI gpt-5-nano-2025-08-07_medium Oct 18, 2026 Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub · data file
OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025 Math 81.1% 108 Epoch AI gpt-5-nano-2025-08-07_high Oct 18, 2026 Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub · data file
GPQA Diamond Knowledge 69.4% 94 Epoch AI gpt-5-nano-2025-08-07_high Oct 18, 2026 Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub · data file
GPQA Diamond (OpenRouter run) Knowledge 68.4% 96 OpenRouter openai/gpt-5-nano-2025-08-07
OpenAI · first-party provider (1 of 2 rows)
Oct 18, 2026 OpenRouter benchmark datasets · data file
SimpleQA Verified Knowledge 11.7% 81 Epoch AI gpt-5-nano-2025-08-07_high Oct 18, 2026 Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub · data file
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard Agents 51.5% 99 UC Berkeley (Gorilla) GPT-5-nano-2025-08-07 (FC) Oct 18, 2026 Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard · data file
τ²-bench Airline (OpenRouter run) Agents 45.1% 82 OpenRouter openai/gpt-5-nano-2025-08-07
OpenAI · first-party provider (1 of 2 rows)
Oct 18, 2026 OpenRouter benchmark datasets · data file

Models with similar SI-IQ

ModelSI-IQ
gpt-oss-120bOpenAI106GPT-5 nano vs gpt-oss-120b
o3-miniOpenAI105GPT-5 nano vs o3-mini
Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic104GPT-5 nano vs Claude Haiku 4.5
MiniMax-M3MiniMax108GPT-5 nano vs MiniMax-M3
Gemini 2.5 Pro (Jun 2025)Google DeepMind108GPT-5 nano vs Gemini 2.5 Pro (Jun 2025)

Computed with SI-IQ method version 1.0.0. Read the full methodology

Data sources: Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard, Gorilla project (Apache-2.0); Epoch AI, ‘Capabilities & benchmarking’ (CC BY 4.0); API list prices via LiteLLM's price table (MIT); each price links to the developer's pricing page; Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai), licensed under CC BY 4.0: reuse and republish with attribution to OpenRouter..