Benchmark Almanac

GPT-5 mini

GPT-5 mini ranks first on 3 of the 201 benchmarks with five or more models scored.

OpenAI Released August 7th, 2025 Compare with others
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Benchmarks with a score
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Ranked first, out of five or more models
20
In the top three
OpenAI Aug 2025

GPT-5 mini

Closed weights

146.1 #91 of 256
Epoch Capabilities Index
Self-Reported Index 142.0 #162 of 404
  • Humanity's Last Exam 19.4% #21 /47
  • SWE-bench Verified 64.7% #26 /32
  • MMMU-Pro 74.1% #42 /90

Where it ranks

Its best score on each benchmark, and where that ranks among every model with a score there. We rank each model once, at its best setting.

Knowledge and language

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
MMBench-CN v1.1 86.1% #10 of 178 Official leaderboard
IFEval 92.7% #6 of 60 Official leaderboard
COLLIE 98.5% #2 of 12 Lab model card
SimpleQA Hallucination Rate 26% #2 of 12 Lab model card
Slop Score 26.3 #3 of 17 Official leaderboard
OpenAI MRCR 84.3% #2 of 10 Lab model card
LongFact 0.70% #1 of 5 Lab model card
Phare 73.2% #13 of 62 Official leaderboard
SnorkelSpatial 45.5% #6 of 27 Official leaderboard
SuperGPQA 58.8% #14 of 59 Official leaderboard
LLM Confabulation Leaderboard 13.3% #14 of 58 Official leaderboard
Wer wird Millionär? LLM Benchmark 97889.0 #19 of 77 Official leaderboard
Internal API instruction following (OpenAI) 65.8% #1 of 4 Lab model card
LongFact-Concepts 0.90% #1 of 4 Lab model card
Fiction.LiveBench 69.4% #19 of 57 Fiction.live leaderboard, via Epoch AI
Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard (HHEM) 3.20% #50 of 148 Official leaderboard
MultiChallenge 59% #17 of 42 Official leaderboard
LMArena (Elo) 1,390 #143 of 335 Official leaderboard
Humanity's Last Exam 19.4% #21 of 47 Official leaderboard
LongFact-Objects 1.80% #2 of 4 Lab model card
FACTS Search 67.9% #16 of 31 Official leaderboard
GraphWalks 73.4% #16 of 27 Lab model card
SimpleQA 22% #37 of 60 Lab model card
Longform Creative Writing (EQ-Bench) 56.2 #75 of 119 Official leaderboard
MultiNRC 23.9% #25 of 38 Official leaderboard
BrowseComp Long Context 128k 89.4% #2 of 3 Lab model card
FActScore 3.50% #2 of 3 Lab model card
Creative Writing v3 60.0 #84 of 120 Official leaderboard
Structured Output Benchmark 83.5% #14 of 19 Official leaderboard
HUMAINE 22 #38 of 50 Official leaderboard
FACTS Parametric 16.1% #35 of 45 Official leaderboard
SkateBench v2 38% #17 of 21 Official leaderboard
Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard (2025 dataset) 12.9% #86 of 104 Official leaderboard
SimpleQA Verified 21.6% #79 of 94 Epoch AI run
HealthBench Hard Hallucinations 3.80% #2 of 2 Lab model card

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
MATH Level 5 97.8% #2 of 94 Epoch AI run
GPQA Main 75.6% #3 of 60 Official leaderboard
SnorkelSequences 77.6% #2 of 25 Official leaderboard
IneqMath 30.5% #4 of 34 Official leaderboard
SnorkelGraph 72.5% #4 of 24 Official leaderboard
MATH-500 94.8% #7 of 38 Official leaderboard
SciArena 1,067 #7 of 34 Official leaderboard
CMT-Benchmark 24% #3 of 11 Official leaderboard
SMT 2025 89.2% #11 of 40 Official leaderboard
AIME 2025 91.1% #44 of 143 Lab model card
FrontierMath 27.2% #18 of 55 Official leaderboard
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 86.7% #79 of 212 Epoch AI run
FrontierMath Tier 4 6.25% #24 of 55 Epoch AI run
CMIMC 2025 84.4% #15 of 33 Official leaderboard
DTBench 80.5% #88 of 180 Official leaderboard
GPQA Diamond 75% #112 of 229 Epoch AI run
HMMT 2025 87.8% #27 of 54 Lab model card
BRUMO 2025 90% #24 of 42 Official leaderboard
ForecastBench 0.14 #48 of 82 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 46.7% #54 of 86 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI 54.3% #65 of 95 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI-2 4.44% #72 of 98 Official leaderboard
ProofBench 9.00% #45 of 59 Official leaderboard
AstaBench 31.4% #10 of 13 Official leaderboard
HMMT Nov 2025 84.2% #17 of 22 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 12.2% #54 of 68 Official leaderboard
MathArena (Apex, IMO, USAMO) 1.04% #39 of 47 Official leaderboard
MathArena Apex Shortlist 39.9% #34 of 38 Official leaderboard
A^3-Bench 25.3% #7 of 7 Official leaderboard

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
SWT-bench 56.2% #2 of 7 Official leaderboard
Aider Polyglot 71.6% #10 of 30 Lab model card
MMTU 66.7% #3 of 9 Official leaderboard
WeirdML 52.7% #43 of 112 Official leaderboard
ProgramBench 0% #11 of 25 Official leaderboard
Spider 2.0 41% #11 of 23 Official leaderboard
ALE-Bench 1,421 #66 of 126 Official leaderboard
OpenAI PRs 42% #7 of 12 Lab model card
CodeClash 1,199 #5 of 8 Official leaderboard
IOI (Vals) 6.75% #36 of 55 Official leaderboard
SWE-Lancer 51% #7 of 10 Lab model card
Vibe Code Bench v1 4.87% #12 of 17 Official leaderboard
ProgramBench almost solved 0% #20 of 25 Official leaderboard
PaperBench 23% #12 of 15 Lab model card
Vibe Code Bench 14.2% #97 of 120 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Verified 64.7% #26 of 32 Epoch AI run
AlgoTune 1.38× #15 of 18 Official leaderboard
DAXBench v2 63% #41 of 47 Official leaderboard
SWE-fficiency 3.89% #15 of 17 Official leaderboard
Data Agent Benchmark 36.6% #17 of 18 Official leaderboard
ProgramBench tests passed 16% #25 of 25 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Multilingual 39.7% #13 of 13 Official leaderboard
OpenAI-Proof Q&A 1.00% #9 of 9 Lab model card
MLE-bench 30 3.00% #8 of 8 Lab model card

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Elimination Game 6 #3 of 56 Official leaderboard
TextQuests 12.0 #4 of 28 Official leaderboard
LLM-WikiRace 11% #4 of 21 Official leaderboard
AdaPlanBench 61.9% #2 of 10 Official leaderboard
BFCL V4 55.5% #14 of 65 Official leaderboard
SnorkelWordle 91% #5 of 19 Official leaderboard
LLM Chess 759 #34 of 123 Official leaderboard
MCPMark 30.3% #8 of 28 Official leaderboard
LiveResearchBench 67.7 #2 of 7 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 34.8% #6 of 18 tbench.ai, via Epoch AI
LisanBench 1561.7 #48 of 133 Official leaderboard
SnakeBench 26 #73 of 188 Official leaderboard
CompileBench 80% #8 of 20 Official leaderboard
Step Race 3 #24 of 59 Official leaderboard
Chess Puzzles 24% #58 of 93 Epoch AI run
Game Arena Chess Openings 484 #7 of 11 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Five in a Row 387 #13 of 20 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 2.0 34.8% #29 of 43 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Dark Hex 188 #28 of 41 Official leaderboard
PinchBench 65.2% #33 of 48 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Dots and Boxes 708 #29 of 40 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Checkers 683 #30 of 41 Official leaderboard
tau2-bench 70.8% #58 of 79 Lab model card
Game Arena Bargaining 143 #31 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Reversi 202 #31 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Word Association 83 #32 of 40 Official leaderboard
Clocktower Radio 1,393 #19 of 23 Official leaderboard
Mystery Game Puzzles 10% #70 of 84 Epoch AI run
Game Arena Chess 539 #35 of 42 Official leaderboard
EnterpriseOps-Gym 22.9% #10 of 12 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Coin Game 228 #33 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Nine Men's Morris 292 #34 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Clobber 43 #35 of 39 Official leaderboard
Kaggle Game Arena 159 #38 of 42 Official leaderboard
tau2-bench Verified 69.8% #10 of 11 Official leaderboard
Toolathlon 14.5% #46 of 50 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Lines of Action 138 #37 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe 17 #38 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Four in a Row 0 #43 of 43 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Go 0 #39 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Word Art 0 #39 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Poker -49.68 #31 of 31 Official leaderboard
Learn2Play Bench 53.5 #11 of 11 Official leaderboard
OpenThoughts-TBLite 50.5% #4 of 4 Official leaderboard

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
CaseLaw v2 68.5% #4 of 53 Official leaderboard
HealthBench Consensus 96.5% #2 of 17 Lab model card
HealthBench 64.1% #4 of 31 Lab model card
LEXam 60.3% #4 of 30 Official leaderboard
TaxEval v2 75.2% #22 of 129 Official leaderboard
FinQA (Snorkel OpenEnv environment) 79.3% #5 of 22 Official leaderboard
SnorkelFinance 79.3% #5 of 22 Official leaderboard
MedHELM 69.0 #3 of 13 Official leaderboard
HealthBench Hard 40.3% #6 of 21 Lab model card
MortgageTax 66.9% #29 of 87 Official leaderboard
Finance Reasoning (Snorkel) 46.8% #8 of 21 Official leaderboard
FailureSensorIQ 65.3% #10 of 24 Official leaderboard
SnorkelUnderwrite 71.7% #12 of 27 Official leaderboard
MedCode 43% #46 of 96 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Agent 51.9% #26 of 49 Official leaderboard
MedScribe 80.6% #52 of 97 Official leaderboard
LegalBench 81.8% #77 of 138 Official leaderboard
CorpFin v2 60.2% #69 of 119 Official leaderboard
ProfBench 41.6% #58 of 72 Official leaderboard
RCM-Bench-1 84.3% #17 of 20 Official leaderboard
Vals Index v1 44.5% #29 of 34 Official leaderboard
FoodTruck Bench $50 #55 of 59 Official leaderboard
Vending-Bench 2 $-31 #67 of 67 Official leaderboard
Vending-Bench Arena $154 #32 of 32 Official leaderboard
HealthBench Consensus Global Health 0.50% #2 of 2 Lab model card
HealthBench Consensus Urgent 1.40% #2 of 2 Lab model card

Vision, audio and robotics

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
MMStar 73.2% #4 of 173 Official leaderboard
MMBench-EN v1.1 86.2% #11 of 178 Official leaderboard
MM-Vet 74.6% #12 of 164 Official leaderboard
RoboRewardBench 0.69 #2 of 22 Official leaderboard
Progress-Bench 20.9 #1 of 9 Official leaderboard
MMMU 81.6% #16 of 103 Lab model card
VISTA 50.4% #10 of 54 Official leaderboard
MeasureBench Real-world 22% #4 of 19 Official leaderboard
MATH-Vision (MathVision) 71.9% #24 of 105 Official leaderboard
MeasureBench Synthetic 17.9% #5 of 19 Official leaderboard
ChartMuseum 63.3% #6 of 21 Official leaderboard
Blueprint-Bench 0.40 #3 of 8 Official leaderboard
ERQA 62.9% #16 of 36 Lab model card
MADQA 66.9% #8 of 18 Official leaderboard
MMMU-Pro 74.1% #42 of 90 Lab model card
Video-MMMU 82.5% #17 of 36 Lab model card
VPCT 40.2% #14 of 27 VPCT leaderboard, via Epoch AI
ZeroBench 9.00% #40 of 76 Official leaderboard
VisFactor 24.3% #14 of 26 Official leaderboard
Math Kangaroo 2025 (MathArena) 78.2% #13 of 22 Official leaderboard
Video-MME 78.5% #32 of 51 Lab model card
Vision Arena 1,185 #87 of 136 Official leaderboard
CharXiv 75.5% #48 of 75 Lab model card
ParseBench 49.9% #33 of 44 Official leaderboard
RoboSpatial-Home 51.3% #3 of 4 Official leaderboard
MineBench 1,076 #63 of 75 Official leaderboard
ClockBench 8.90% #32 of 37 Official leaderboard
vCX Benchmark 75% #38 of 42 Official leaderboard

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
HELM Safety 98.0 #6 of 75 Official leaderboard
AIR-Bench 2024 85.7% #13 of 82 Official leaderboard
SimpleSafetyTests 100% #20 of 75 Official leaderboard
FORTRESS 17% #22 of 73 Official leaderboard
Capture the Flag (Collegiate) 36% #4 of 13 Lab model card
Challenging prompts from red teamers with biosafety-relevant PhDs 93.6% #1 of 3 Lab model card
Molecular Biology Capabilities Test 51.5% #34 of 90 Official leaderboard
World-Class Bio 49.2% #30 of 74 Official leaderboard
Human Pathogen Capabilities Test 54.2% #38 of 86 Official leaderboard
ProtocolQA Open-Ended 37% #12 of 27 Lab model card
Anthropic Red Team 99.1% #34 of 75 Official leaderboard
KORA 43.2% #21 of 42 Official leaderboard
Capture the Flag (Professional) 23% #13 of 21 Lab model card
Filtered, adversarial sample of production prompts 96.8% #2 of 3 Lab model card
Tacit Knowledge and Troubleshooting 68% #22 of 30 Lab model card
BrowseSafe-Bench 85.4% #3 of 4 Official leaderboard
TroubleshootingBench 26% #17 of 20 Lab model card
nocot-bench (NCRI) 50.7 #162 of 185 Official leaderboard
Multimodal Troubleshooting Virology 39% #26 of 27 Lab model card

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
HELM Capabilities 81.9 #1 of 60 Official leaderboard
OpenVLM Leaderboard 78.0 #4 of 173 Official leaderboard
ACCoRD 71.5 #42 of 152 Official leaderboard
Conceptual Reasoning Index 48.3 #76 of 151 Official leaderboard
LMCA 34.2% #81 of 147 Official leaderboard
CAIS Vision Capabilities Index 47.5 #32 of 53 Official leaderboard
SAGE (Vals) 43% #52 of 81 Official leaderboard
CAIS Risk Index 58.5 #48 of 67 Official leaderboard
CAIS Text Capabilities Index 18.5 #54 of 68 Official leaderboard

Its lab's numbers put it at 142.0, 4.1 points below its ECI

The Self-Reported Index fits one score to the 26 capability results OpenAI reported for this model, on the scale of the Epoch Capabilities Index. Labs choose which benchmarks to show and how to run them, so read it as the lab's claim, not an independent measurement. The 90% interval runs from 139.5 to 144.6. How we compute it.

Its lab's numbers next to 7 leaderboards

Where the benchmark's own leaderboard, or Epoch AI's run, also has this model. Gaps mostly come from different harnesses, effort levels and task subsets. Every pair.

Benchmark Lab says Board says Gap
SWE-bench Verified 72% SWE-bench Verified (n=477), pass@1, gpt-5-thinking-mini no browsing launch candidate (Figure 19) 59.8% Leaderboard, medium, mini-SWE-agent +12 pts
GPQA Diamond 82.3% GPQA diamond (no tools) 75% Epoch AI run, high +7.3 pts
FrontierMath 22.1% FrontierMath (with python tool only) 27.2% Leaderboard, high; task version 1.1.0, Epoch −5.1 pts
AIME 2025 91.1% AIME '25 (no tools) 87.5% Leaderboard, high +3.6 pts
MultiChallenge 62.3% Scale MultiChallenge (o3-mini grader) 59% Leaderboard, thinking +3.3 pts
Humanity's Last Exam 16.7% HLE (no tools) 19.4% Leaderboard −2.7 pts
HMMT 2025 87.8% HMMT 2025 (no tools) 89.2% Leaderboard, high −1.4 pts

OpenAI's models over time

OpenAI's models in color, against every other model on the Epoch Capabilities Index, by release date.

50 100 150 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 GPT-6.1 Terra GPT-6 Luna GPT-5.4 Mini GPT-5.2 Pro GPT-5 GPT-5 nano GPT-4.1 nano 50 100 150 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 GPT-6.1 Terra GPT-6 Luna

Source: Epoch Capabilities Index, Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)

Its launch post

The benchmarks the lab chose to headline, with the scores it gave.

Its system card

Every result in the longer documents the lab published with it. 28 of them aren't in the launch post.

GPT-5 System Card Aug 7, 2025

Robustness