Sora 2 vs GPT-5 Pro

1. Advanced Video Generation Capability

• Produces richly detailed, cinematic video clips from simple text or image prompts.
• Handles complex scenes, motion, lighting, environments, and multi-object interactions with high fidelity.

2. Synced Audio Generation

• Generates audio that aligns with the timing, actions, and mood of the video.
• Useful for creating complete media outputs without requiring external sound design.

3. Multi-Modal Input, Multi-Media Output

• Accepts text and image inputs, enabling:
  • Storyboard-to-video workflows
  • Image-to-video transformations
  • Concept illustrations expanded into full scenes
• Outputs video and audio, making it ideal for end-to-end content creation.

4. Resolution-Optimized Performance

• Provides high-quality generation at:
  • Portrait: 720 x 1280
  • Landscape: 1280 x 720
• Optimized for common mobile and web video formats used in social media, ads, and creative production.

5. Powerful Media Understanding

• Interprets natural language with strong scene comprehension.
• Capable of rendering realistic movement, physics, emotions, and atmosphere.
• Suitable for:
  • Marketing videos
  • Short films and creative storytelling
  • Product demos and conceptual visualizations

6. Integrated Across Major API Endpoints

• Supported in Chat Completions, Responses, Realtime, Assistants, and Videos endpoints.
• Makes it easy to integrate into agent workflows or interactive production pipelines.

7. Consistent Model Behavior via Snapshots

• Offers stable snapshots to lock model performance across long-term projects.
• Ensures reproducibility for content pipelines, asset libraries, and enterprise workflows.

8. Ideal Use Cases

• Storyboarding → full-scene generation
• Product or app demos visualized from text
• Educational and explainer videos
• Social media content creation
• Creative ideation and prototyping

1. Highest reasoning quality in the GPT-5 family

• Uses significantly more compute to "think harder" before responding.
• Designed for the toughest reasoning tasks where answer quality matters more than speed.
• Produces more precise, reliable, and detailed outputs than standard GPT-5.

2. Advanced multi-turn reasoning via Responses API

• Available only in the Responses API to support:
  • Multi-turn internal model interactions before returning a reply.
  • Advanced control patterns (e.g., background mode for long-running jobs).
• Ideal for complex workflows, deep planning, and multi-step analysis.

3. Configured for maximum effort by default

• Always runs with reasoning.effort: 'high' (no lower-effort mode).
• Prioritizes depth and correctness over latency and cost.

4. Multimodal input

• Accepts text + image as input.
• Outputs text, with strong instruction-following and analysis capabilities.

5. Tooling and ecosystem integration

• Supports Web Search, File Search, and Image Generation (as tools).
• Supports MCP and other Responses API tooling patterns.
• Does not support Code Interpreter and does not support Computer Use, keeping focus on pure reasoning + tools.