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GPT-5 Nano

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GPT-5-Nano is the smallest and fastest variant in the GPT-5 system, optimized for developer tools, rapid interactions, and ultra-low latency environments. While limited in reasonin

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GPT-5 Nano

Added 10 July 2026

#openai

Overview

GPT-5-Nano is the smallest and fastest variant in the GPT-5 system, optimized for developer tools, rapid interactions, and ultra-low latency environments. While limited in reasoning depth compared to its larger...

How to use / API access

Call via OpenRouter with model id `openai/gpt-5-nano`.

  • openrouter · openai/gpt-5-nano Docs

OpenRouter id: openai/gpt-5-nano

Benchmarks

  • Intelligence Index (artificial-analysis): 13 index
  • Design Arena 3d (other): 966 elo · #116
  • Design Arena codecategories (other): 1086 elo · #105
  • Design Arena dataviz (other): 1057 elo · #107
  • Design Arena gamedev (other): 1046 elo · #111

Notes

GPT-5 Nano is listed in the EDNA Models directory from the OpenRouter catalogue.

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USAGE / OPENROUTER

How much GPT-5 Nano is used

Tokens processed through OpenRouter each day. It shows what developers actually run, not every company's private traffic.

Tokens, last 7 days
51.8B ▼65.4%
Requests, last 7 days
97.8M
Tool calls, last 7 days
712K
Intelligence score
13
People's vote
1320
Average cost per request
4.3¢
Price per million tokens
$0.05 in · $0.4 out
025B50B19 Sept: 6B tokens, 2.3M requests20 Sept: 5.4B tokens, 1.8M requests21 Sept: 29.8B tokens, 3.7M requests22 Sept: 36.6B tokens, 4.2M requests23 Sept: 36.3B tokens, 4M requests24 Sept: 27.2B tokens, 4.1M requests25 Sept: 41.9B tokens, 4.1M requests26 Sept: 40.9B tokens, 3.7M requests27 Sept: 35.1B tokens, 3.6M requests28 Sept: 31.1B tokens, 4.4M requests29 Sept: 35.3B tokens, 4.1M requests30 Sept: 29.9B tokens, 4.1M requests1 Oct: 27.7B tokens, 3.8M requests2 Oct: 31.6B tokens, 3.6M requests3 Oct: 29.9B tokens, 24M requests4 Oct: 33.2B tokens, 21.4M requests5 Oct: 33.2B tokens, 5.2M requests6 Oct: 24.3B tokens, 3M requests7 Oct: 29.6B tokens, 3.2M requests8 Oct: 30B tokens, 42.8M requests9 Oct: 29.8B tokens, 26.9M requests10 Oct: 20.4B tokens, 16M requests11 Oct: 20.7B tokens, 36.7M requests12 Oct: 20.9B tokens, 23.9M requests13 Oct: 18.4B tokens, 26.7M requests14 Oct: 9.7B tokens, 6.2M requests15 Oct: 7.7B tokens, 2.7M requests16 Oct: 8.1B tokens, 2.6M requests17 Oct: 6.3B tokens, 6.9M requests18 Oct: 10.9B tokens, 38.7M requests19 Oct: 6B tokens, 2.1M requests20 Oct: 6.4B tokens, 9.5M requests21 Oct: 6.5B tokens, 35.3M requests19 Sept3 Oct17 Oct21 OctSee where it ranks on the leaderboard →

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