GPT-5
GPT-5
OpenAI’s latest frontier model featuring a “Unified Thinking” system that automatically routes queries between fast responses and deep reasoning.Use Cases:
- High-stakes enterprise orchestration
- Complex multi-step planning and autonomous agents
- Advanced research and data synthesis
- Native multimodality (text, vision, and audio trained together)
- 400K context window with high reliability
- Adjustable “Reasoning Effort” (Minimal to High)
GPT-5.1
GPT-5.1
A refined version of the GPT-5 baseline, optimized for improved conversational tone and enhanced personalization.Use Cases:
- Personalized AI assistants
- Dynamic customer experience agents
- Content creation with specific brand-voice requirements
- Warmer, more human-like interaction style
- Improved instruction-following consistency
- Better performance in creative writing and brainstorming
GPT-5-mini / GPT-5-nano
GPT-5-mini / GPT-5-nano
Scalable variants of the GPT-5 architecture designed for efficiency and edge deployment.Use Cases:
- Mini: Real-time API calls, lightweight agents, and summarization.
- Nano: On-device processing, privacy-preserving mobile apps, and instant classification.
- Maintains the “Unified Thinking” logic at a lower cost
- Ideal for high-volume, low-latency production environments
- Minimal token usage for equivalent GPT-5 quality tasks
o3 Reasoning
o3 Reasoning
The flagship of the “o-series,” specifically engineered for tasks requiring intense logic and sequential reasoning.Use Cases:
- Advanced coding and technical debugging
- Complex mathematical proofs and scientific analysis
- Strategic decision-making and policy evaluation
- Direct “Chain-of-Thought” processing visible to the user
- High-tier performance on STEM benchmarks (AIME, ARC-AGI)
- First reasoning model with autonomous tool-use (Search, Python)
o4-mini
o4-mini
A breakthrough small-scale reasoning model that delivers deep analytical capabilities at a fraction of the cost.Use Cases:
- High-volume reasoning tasks (e.g., analyzing thousands of legal docs)
- STEM-focused educational tools
- Cost-effective structured data extraction
- 20% better performance than o3-mini with 10x lower cost
- 200K context window for long-context reasoning
- Native multimodal support within the reasoning chain
GPT-4.1
GPT-4.1
An enterprise-optimized flagship model focused on high-throughput, reliability, and precision in instruction following.Use Cases:
- Real-world software engineering (Excel at code diffs)
- Extracting insights from 1M+ token documents
- Predictable, low-latency business workflows
- Massively expanded 1M token context window
- Significantly better at “Format Following” (JSON, XML, YAML)
- Half the latency of GPT-4o for complex tasks
GPT-4o
GPT-4o
A versatile, multimodal model designed for natural, real-time human-computer interaction.Use Cases:
- Real-time voice translation and customer support
- Interactive video analysis and vision-based troubleshooting
- Multimodal RAG applications
- Sub-320ms latency for audio/visual inputs
- “Omni” architecture (handles text, audio, and images natively)
- Balanced performance across 50+ languages
GPT-4o-mini
GPT-4o-mini
The most cost-efficient and fastest small model in the GPT-4o family.Use Cases:
- Lightweight chatbots and simple Q&A
- Basic sentiment analysis and text classification
- Rapid prototyping of AI-powered features
- Over 60% cheaper than GPT-3.5 Turbo
- Faster than its larger counterpart for text-only tasks
- Supports the same 128K context window as the flagship
💡 Recommendation: Use GPT-5 for complex autonomous agents, o3/o4-mini for heavy logic or math, and GPT-4.1 for long-document analysis and coding tasks.