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GPT-5.1 vs GPT-5

Compare GPT-5.1 and GPT-5. Build AI products powered by either model on Appaca.

Model Comparison

FeatureGPT-5.1GPT-5
ProviderOpenAIOpenAI
Model Typetexttext
Context Window400,000 tokens400,000 tokens
Input Cost
$1.25/ 1M tokens
$1.25/ 1M tokens
Output Cost
$10.00/ 1M tokens
$10.00/ 1M tokens

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Strengths & Best Use Cases

GPT-5.1

OpenAI

1. Configurable Reasoning for Agentic Tasks

  • Built to excel in autonomous or semi-autonomous coding workflows, with adjustable reasoning effort for planning, refactoring and debugging.

2. Fast Multi-Modal Input with Large Output

  • Accepts both text and image inputs while producing text outputs.
  • Offers up to 128 k output tokens, allowing long responses and code generation across multiple files.

3. Large Context & Knowledge Cut-Off

  • 400 k token context window supports processing large codebases or documents.
  • Knowledge cut-off of Sep 30 2024 ensures familiarity with recent tools and frameworks.

4. Reasoning Token Support

  • Provides explicit support for reasoning tokens, enabling developers to fine-tune the balance between reasoning depth and speed.

GPT-5

OpenAI

1. High reasoning capability

  • Designed for intelligent reasoning across complex domains.
  • Supports reasoning tokens and adjustable reasoning effort.

2. Strong coding and agentic performance

  • Optimized for multi-step coding tasks, tool-use chains, and agent workflows.
  • Handles complex logic, planning, and structured problem solving reliably.

3. Multimodal input

  • Accepts text + image as input.
  • Produces text outputs with strong instruction following.

4. Extensive tool support

  • Works with Web Search, File Search, Image Generation (as a tool), Code Interpreter, MCP, and more.
  • Integrated across Chat Completions, Responses API, Realtime, Assistants, Batch, Embeddings, etc.