GPT-5 (high) vs o1-pro

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across knowledge, coding, math, and reasoning.

GPT-5 (high) is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 84 to 33. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

GPT-5 (high)'s sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 94 against 86. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 91 to 79. o1-pro does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

o1-pro gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for GPT-5 (high).

Quick Verdict

Pick GPT-5 (high) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. o1-pro only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you need the larger 200K context window.

Knowledge

o1-pro

GPT-5 (high)

78.3

o1-pro

79

93
MMLU
-
91
GPQA
79
89
SuperGPQA
-
87
OpenBookQA
-
83
MMLU-Pro
-
27
HLE
-

Coding

GPT-5 (high)
85
HumanEval
-
67
SWE-bench Verified
-
62
LiveCodeBench
-

Mathematics

GPT-5 (high)

GPT-5 (high)

94

o1-pro

86

95
AIME 2023
-
97
AIME 2024
86
96
AIME 2025
-
91
HMMT Feb 2023
-
93
HMMT Feb 2024
-
92
HMMT Feb 2025
-
94
BRUMO 2025
-
94
MATH-500
-

Reasoning

GPT-5 (high)
89
SimpleQA
-
87
MuSR
-
94
BBH
-

Instruction Following

GPT-5 (high)
91
IFEval
-

Multilingual

GPT-5 (high)
89
MGSM
-

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, GPT-5 (high) or o1-pro?

GPT-5 (high) is ahead overall, 84 to 33. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 91 and 79.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, GPT-5 (high) or o1-pro?

o1-pro has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 79 versus 78.3. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, GPT-5 (high) or o1-pro?

GPT-5 (high) has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 94 versus 86. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 9, 2026

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