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GPT 5 Pro
by OpenAI
CLOSEDHOSTEDAPILONG CONTEXTPAIDREASONING
RANKED #81 OF 245 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #137 OF 6,469 · VIBE SCORE 6.1 · 257 VOICES
GPT-5 Pro is OpenAI’s most advanced model, offering major improvements in reasoning, code quality, and user experience. It is optimized for complex tasks that require step-by-step reasoning, instruction following, and...
HAPPY8.9
29 mentions
SAD6.1
18 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 21 voices
HONEYMOON FADING
Early praise is cooling off in recent weeks.
HOW TO USE IT
Closed model. OpenAI hosts it, so you use it through an app or an API.
PREFER OPEN SOURCE? THE CROWD HAS PICKS
GPT 5 Pro is closed, so you rent it. These open-weight models can genuinely stand in for it. Download once, own forever.
- OPEN WEIGHTS7.4Dots3 NoteXiaohongshuPick for near frontier reasoning and long horizon multimodal tasks without cloud lock in.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY💻 STRONG AT CODE💸 COST EFFICIENT2.6k VOICESMATCH★★★
- OPEN WEIGHTS7.6
Qwen3.8 27BAlibabaPick to run a capable multimodal coding assistant locally on consumer grade hardware.🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE🪶 RUNS ON LESS💻 STRONG AT CODE10.2k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS6.7
Mistral SmallMistralPick for fast, lightweight local vision and text processing with low compute needs.🪶 RUNS ON LESS⚡ FAST🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE1.0k VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
People generally like GPT 5 Pro, with some gripes. Biggest praise: price. Biggest gripe: working when you need it.
208 POSTS · 49 COMMENTS · HACKER NEWS · GITHUB · REDDIT · LEMMY · BLOG
PEOPLE LOVE
- People feel it is worth the money (9 mentions)
- Popular for coding help (4 mentions)
- Good at writing and wording things (2 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Outages, errors, or limits get in the way (5 mentions)
- Sometimes makes things up (4 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- PriceMOSTLY POSITIVE
9 thumbs up · 4 thumbs down
- Getting facts rightMIXED FEELINGS
3 thumbs up · 4 thumbs down
- Working when you need itA SORE SPOT
2 thumbs up · 5 thumbs down
- Help with codePEOPLE LOVE THIS
4 thumbs up · 1 thumbs down
- WritingMOSTLY POSITIVE
2 thumbs up · 1 thumbs down
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
- FROM REDDIT >
“gpt 5 pro changed its tone and it sucks.”
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Checked picks first: tags say why you would switch, stars say how fully each one stands in for GPT 5 Pro.
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- REDDIT · 2025-11-06 · 1122 UPVOTESThe chinese did it, KIMI K2 surpassed GPT-5.
The chinese did it, KIMI K2 surpassed GPT-5.
- REDDIT · 2025-10-19 · 444 UPVOTESReactions to Open AI employees' wrongful claims that gpt-5 solved Erdos problems. Demis Hassabis: "this is embarrassing" Yann LeCun:…
Reactions to Open AI employees' wrongful claims that gpt-5 solved Erdos problems. Demis Hassabis: "this is embarrassing" Yann LeCun: "Hoisted by their own GPTards" (yann lecooked with this one).
- REDDIT · 2025-09-29 · 434 UPVOTESComparing Sonnet 4.5 and GPT-5 Pro for 3D simulations
Comparing Sonnet 4.5 and GPT-5 Pro for 3D simulations
- REDDIT · 2025-07-30 · 428 UPVOTESMore snippets of GPT 5, seems like release really is imminent.
More snippets of GPT 5, seems like release really is imminent.
- REDDIT · 2025-08-07 · 399 UPVOTESUnpopular opinion: GPT-5 is quite good
Unpopular opinion: GPT-5 is quite good
- REDDIT · 2025-08-19 · 397 UPVOTESGPT-5 Pro temporarily limited?
GPT-5 Pro temporarily limited?
- REDDIT · 2025-08-10 · 397 UPVOTESPlus users have a very limited amount of GPT-5 Thinking they can use per week. This is insane.
Plus users have a very limited amount of GPT-5 Thinking they can use per week. This is insane.
- REDDIT · 2025-10-05 · 384 UPVOTESGPT-5 Pro found a counterexample to the NICD-with-erasures majority optimality (Simons list, p.25). An interesting but open problem in real…
GPT-5 Pro found a counterexample to the NICD-with-erasures majority optimality (Simons list, p.25). An interesting but open problem in real analysis
- REDDIT · 2025-08-20 · 362 UPVOTESOpenAI staffer claims to have had GPT5-Pro prove/improve on a math paper on Twitter, it was later superseded by another human paper, but…
OpenAI staffer claims to have had GPT5-Pro prove/improve on a math paper on Twitter, it was later superseded by another human paper, but the solution it provided was novel and better than the v1
- REDDIT · 2025-09-24 · 361 UPVOTESGPT-5 may represent the beginning of progress toward models capable of passing the Gödel Test
GPT-5 may represent the beginning of progress toward models capable of passing the Gödel Test
- REDDIT · 2025-08-01 · 358 UPVOTESOne of the takeaways from The Information's article "Inside OpenAI’s Rocky Path to GPT-5": "GPT-5 will show real improvements over its…
One of the takeaways from The Information's article "Inside OpenAI’s Rocky Path to GPT-5": "GPT-5 will show real improvements over its predecessors, but they won't be comparable to leaps in performance between earlier GPT-branded models"
- REDDIT · 2025-12-10 · 348 UPVOTESDeepMind releases FACTS Benchmark: Gemini 3 Pro defeats GPT-5 in factuality (68.8% vs 61.8%). Even Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher than GPT-5.
DeepMind releases FACTS Benchmark: Gemini 3 Pro defeats GPT-5 in factuality (68.8% vs 61.8%). Even Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher than GPT-5.