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GPT-5 nano

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Verdict

GPT-5 nano is behind the leaders: #240 of 406 by SIscope score. Strongest at coding, weaker at reasoning & knowledge. Cheaper than 93% of priced models.

SIscope score
38
#240 of 406
Human-vote rank
#235
of 419 · score 1320
Price per 1M tokens, blended
$0.14
$0.05 in · $0.4 out
Context window
400K
400,000 tokens

Shape

Each spoke is a category, 0 at the centre, 100 at the edge.

CodingAgentsno data yetReasoningMathChatInstructions

Category scores

Percentiles: 90 means better than about 90% of tested models.

Coding45
Agents & toolsNo data yet–
Reasoning & knowledge30
Math43
Chat quality44
Following instructions45

What goes into each category · Compare with DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

Human-vote score over time

Text arena, recent updates.

131513201325Oct 20: 1319.8 (rank #233)Oct 22: 1320 (rank #234)Oct 28: 1319.9 (rank #235)Oct 20Oct 28

Independent test runs

Run by Epoch AI on the same harness for every model. Bars show the share of questions answered correctly.

GPQA Diamond69%
PhD-level science multiple choice questions
Better than 41% of 333 tested models. Run Oct 30, 2025.
SimpleQA Verified12%
Short factual questions; rewards not making things up
Better than 3% of 100 tested models. Run Aug 10, 2026.
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2581%
Competition maths problems in the style of AIME
Better than 60% of 313 tested models. Run Oct 31, 2025.
FrontierMath Tiers 1-320%
Very hard, unpublished research-style maths problems
Better than 24% of 122 tested models. Run Jun 12, 2026.

Human-vote arenas

People compare two anonymous answers and pick the better one. Scores work like chess ratings.

ArenaRankScoreRange (95%)VotesUpdated
Text arena
Everyday chat, blind human votes
#235 of 41913201313–13278,134Oct 28, 2026
WebDev arena
Building web apps, blind human votes
Not on this board yet
Vision arena
Questions about images, blind human votes
#115 of 16711601148–11713,928Oct 19, 2026
Agent arena
Real multi-step agent sessions
Not on this board yet

Source: Arena (formerly LMArena) leaderboard dataset, CC BY 4.0. Fetched Nov 4, 2026.

Price

Input
$0.05
per 1M tokens
Output
$0.4
per 1M tokens
Blended
$0.14
3 in : 1 out, per 1M
Context window
400K
max tokens per request
Speed
Coming soon
our own tests

List price from the OpenRouter models API (openai/gpt-5-nano), Nov 4, 2026. Providers can charge differently.