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GPT-5.1-Codex

OpenAI · released Nov 13, 2025

ProprietaryReasoningTool useStructured outputVision

GPT-5.1-Codex is a specialized version of GPT-5.1 optimized for software engineering and coding workflows. It is designed for both interactive development sessions and long, independent execution of complex engineering tasks....

Specification

Context window
400K
Max output
128K
Knowledge cutoff
Not stated
Parameters
Undisclosed
Licence
Proprietary
Serving providers
1
Moderated
No

Intelligence

35.6

82th percentile

Coding

Coding Index

Agentic

Agentic Index

Output speed

31 t/s

Median across providers

Latency

3.71s

Time to first token

Cost per task

$0.86

Estimated

Benchmarks

Where the score comes from

The Intelligence Index is a composite. These are the underlying evaluations this model was actually measured on.

Evaluation scores

Percentage correct · higher is better

  • AIME 2025
    95.7%
  • GPQA Diamond
    86.0%
  • MMLU-Pro
    86.0%
  • LiveCodeBench
    84.9%
  • τ²-bench (Telecom)
    83.0%
  • IFBench
    70.0%
  • AA-LCR (long context)
    69.0%
  • SciCode
    40.2%
  • Terminal-Bench Hard
    34.8%
  • Humanity's Last Exam
    25.7%

An evaluation missing from this list was not run for this model — it is not a zero.

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EvaluationScore
AIME 202595.7%
GPQA Diamond86.0%
MMLU-Pro86.0%
LiveCodeBench84.9%
τ²-bench (Telecom)83.0%
IFBench70.0%
AA-LCR (long context)69.0%
SciCode40.2%
Terminal-Bench Hard34.8%
Humanity's Last Exam25.7%

Against its peers

Intelligence Index · this model highlighted, nearest peers in grey

Peers are the models sitting closest on the Intelligence Index — the set you would realistically choose between.

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ModelIntelligence
Kimi K2.536.0
GPT-5.1-Codex35.6
Claude Opus 4.535.6
GLM 5V Turbo35.3
GPT-535.3
Qwen3.5-27B34.6
M2.534.5
GLM 4.734.5

Percentile among all indexed models

Intelligence82th
Mathematics97th
Terminal work80th
Arena Elo58th

Pricing

What it costs to run

List prices per million tokens, plus what one representative task works out to.

List price

Input / 1M tokens
$1.25
Output / 1M tokens
$10
Cached input / 1M
$0.13
Blended 3:1
$3.44

One task, estimated

$0.86

Input tokens
50,000
Output tokens
80,000
Profile
Reasoning

Estimated from list pricing: 50K input tokens plus 80K output tokens for reasoning models (25K for non-reasoning).

Serving providers

Speed and latency figures are medians across these providers, so a widely-served model reports a blend rather than any single endpoint.

Arena

Head-to-head generation quality

Elo from pairwise judgements, broken out by the kind of thing the model was asked to build.

Overall Elo
1,205
Win rate
51.4%
Strongest at
Data visualisation
Tournaments
70

Elo by category

Dot position on a 1,175–1,225 scale · Elo has no meaningful zero

Agent categories (full-stack apps, mobile apps) are only scored for models tested in agent harnesses.

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CategoryEloWin rate
Data visualisation120551.4%
Websites118356.0%
Game development118052.3%