GPT-5 High vs GPT-5.1 High: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
GPT-5 High and GPT-5.1 High both come from OpenAI, GPT-5 High was released in August 2025, and GPT-5.1 High followed 3 months later in November 2025.
The two models share 2 published benchmarks. GPT-5.1 High leads on 2 of them. The widest gaps are on AIME 2025, where GPT-5.1 High scores 100.0% against 95.0%; GPQA, where GPT-5.1 High scores 88.0% against 87.0%. Averaged across everything we track, GPT-5 High sits at 91.0% and GPT-5.1 High at 86.7%.
On price the two are close: GPT-5 High costs $1.25 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, GPT-5.1 High $1.25 and $10. Both accept a context window of about 400K tokens. Both accept text and images as input.
| Characteristic | GPT-5 High | GPT-5.1 High |
|---|---|---|
| Company | OpenAI | OpenAI |
| Release Date | August 6, 2025 | November 11, 2025 |
| Parameters | — | — |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | 400K | 400K |
| Context (output) | 128K | 128K |
| Input Price / 1M | $1.25 | $1.25 |
| Output Price / 1M | $10.00 | $10.00 |
| Average Score | 91.0% | 86.7% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| AIME 2025 | 95.0% | 100.0% |
| GPQA | 87.0% | 88.0% |
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Verdict
GPT-5.1 High leads in 1 out of 4 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: GPT-5 High — 0.9, GPT-5.1 High — 0.9.
API cost is identical: input $1.25/1M, output $10.00/1M tokens.
Same context size: 400K tokens.
GPT-5.1 High is newer: released 11/11/2025 vs 8/6/2025.
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