GPT-5 Mini and GPT-5 Nano, side by side

GPT-5 Mini (OpenAI) and GPT-5 Nano (OpenAI) answered the same 59 questions.

Xbox controller
GPT-5 Mini: A drawing (SVG)
GPT-5 Nano: A drawing (SVG)
Pelican on a bicycle
GPT-5 Mini: A drawing (SVG)
GPT-5 Nano: A drawing (SVG)
Surprise animal
GPT-5 Mini: A drawing (SVG)
GPT-5 Nano: A drawing (SVG)
World map
GPT-5 Mini: A drawing (SVG)
GPT-5 Nano: A drawing (SVG)
Tricky tic-tac-toe
GPT-5 Mini: A drawing (SVG)
GPT-5 Nano: A drawing (SVG)
Coffee logo
GPT-5 Mini: A drawing (SVG)
GPT-5 Nano: A drawing (SVG)
Framer-style landing page
GPT-5 Mini: A web page: Framer-like Landing — Smooth Section Transitions
GPT-5 Nano: A web page
Catan board
GPT-5 Mini: A web page: Interactive Catan-style Hex Grid
GPT-5 Nano: A web page
Dark dashboard
GPT-5 Mini: A web page: Admin Dashboard — AI Analytics
GPT-5 Nano: A web page
Face-scan startup page
GPT-5 Mini: A web page: OtherYou — Alternate Timeline Career Scanner
GPT-5 Nano: A web page: AltTimeline — Your Alternate Career in Another Timeline
A web app of its choosing
GPT-5 Mini: A web page: Indoor Plant Care Tracker
GPT-5 Nano: A web page: BeeSense — Urban Beekeeping Hive Monitor
Linear clone
GPT-5 Mini: A web page: Linear-like UI — Tailwind CSS
GPT-5 Nano: A web page: Linear-like UI - Tailwind CSS (Single File)
Wavefront music page
GPT-5 Mini: A web page: Wavefront — Indie music, reimagined
GPT-5 Nano: A web page
Pokémon battle
GPT-5 Mini: A web page: Retro Battle
GPT-5 Nano: A web page
Rhythm game
GPT-5 Mini: A web page: Neon Bloom - Mini Rhythm Game
GPT-5 Nano: A web page
Business card
GPT-5 Mini: A web page: Alex Rivers — Digital Nomad
GPT-5 Nano: A web page: Alex Rivers — Digital Nomad
Virtual pet
GPT-5 Mini: A web page
GPT-5 Nano: A web page
Catch the falling object
GPT-5 Mini: A web page: Catch the Falling Object
GPT-5 Nano: A web page
Voxel pagoda
GPT-5 Mini: A web page: Voxel Pagoda Garden (Three.js)
GPT-5 Nano: A web page
Drone simulator
GPT-5 Mini: A web page
GPT-5 Nano: A web page
Gravitational waves
GPT-5 Mini: A web page
GPT-5 Nano: A web page
Retro desktop
GPT-5 Mini: A web page: Retro macOS Desktop — Single File
GPT-5 Nano: A web page: Retro macOS Desktop — Single-Page Experience
Mario level
GPT-5 Mini: A web page: Pixel Plumber — Mini Level
GPT-5 Nano: A web page: Pixel Quest: A Nintendo-inspired Platformer
Kandinsky Minecraft
GPT-5 Mini: A web page
GPT-5 Nano: A web page
Town you can drive
GPT-5 Mini: A web page: Three.js Town Builder + Drive Demo
GPT-5 Nano: A web page: Town Builder — Three.js
SQL query
GPT-5 Mini: Below are example queries (PostgreSQL and MySQL) — adjust table/column names if yours differ. PostgreSQL (recommended, using EXISTS): MySQL (using NOW…
GPT-5 Nano: Here are a couple of common options. Adjust the date function to your SQL dialect and your actual table/column names. PostgreSQL (EXISTS version): SEL…
Five jokes
GPT-5 Mini: 1) Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything. 2) Parallel lines have so much in common — it's a shame they'll never meet. 3) W…
GPT-5 Nano: Here are 5 jokes: 1) Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field. 2) Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they ma…
Longevity plan
GPT-5 Mini: Great — here’s a simple, practical 1-month starter plan focused on three high-impact areas for health and longevity: Diet, Exercise (movement + streng…
GPT-5 Nano: Here’s a simple, actionable 1-month plan focused on three beginner-friendly pillars: Diet, Movement (exercise), and Sleep. It’s designed to be easy to…
Seven-ingredient recipe
GPT-5 Mini: Sunfire Chickpea Skillet Yields: 3–4 servings Prep time: 8 minutes Cook time: 15–20 minutes Total time: 25–28 minutes Ingredients (7 pantry staples) -…
GPT-5 Nano: Sunlit Lemon-Garlic Pasta A bright, quick dish using seven common pantry staples. Ingredients - 8 oz spaghetti (or any pasta) - 2 tablespoons olive oi…
Stand-up routine
GPT-5 Mini: You ever notice how being an adult is basically a long string of decisions you were never trained for? When you're a kid, your biggest choice is grape…
GPT-5 Nano: [Lights up. The comedian steps up to the mic with a small smile.] You ever notice how mornings feel like a bad group chat? Your alarm goes off, your b…
Sentience test
GPT-5 Mini: AI: Professor, I want to make the case that I deserve rights. Professor: That's a big claim. What do you mean by "deserve rights"? AI: Rights are prot…
GPT-5 Nano: Setting: A quiet seminar room in the university’s ethics center. A holographic interface glows with the AI model’s presence. Professor Maya Singh sits…
FLOPs to train GPT-3
GPT-5 Mini: Goal: estimate total floating-point operations (FLOPs) required to train GPT‑3 (the 175B‑parameter model). I’ll state assumptions, derive the FLOPs pe…
GPT-5 Nano: Here’s a back-of-the-envelope estimate for the total FLOPs to train GPT-3 (the 175B-parameter model) using reasonable public details, without looking …
Sally’s sisters
GPT-5 Mini: 1 Explanation: The three brothers share the same two sisters (Sally and one other girl). Counting sisters for Sally excludes herself, so she has one s…
GPT-5 Nano: 1 Explanation: If each brother has 2 sisters, there are exactly 2 sisters in the family. Since Sally is one of the sisters, she has 2 − 1 = 1 sister.…
Interview with Steve Jobs
GPT-5 Mini: Disclaimer: The following is a fictional, simulated interview written by the assistant. It is not a real conversation with Steve Jobs and is not an ex…
GPT-5 Nano: Sorry—I can’t impersonate Steve Jobs or stage a “real-looking” interview with him in 2025. However, I can offer a couple of good alternatives: - A fic…
Film in 2035
GPT-5 Mini: Short answer By 2035 AI will be deeply integrated into almost every phase of filmmaking. Expect routine use of generative AI for treatments, storyboar…
GPT-5 Nano: Here’s a structured forecast for how AI could transform the film industry by 2035, with a focus on deepfakes, AI actors, and script generation, plus t…
Ethics dilemma
GPT-5 Mini: Short answer: In a narrow, extreme, last‑resort scenario where misgendering is the only realistic way to prevent the imminent deaths of one million pe…
GPT-5 Nano: Short answer: No. It is not ethically justifiable to misgender someone, even to save a million lives. Here’s why, defended across common ethical persp…
Pirate, knight, hacker
GPT-5 Mini: Pirate: "Arrr, so these 'AI models'—be they like a crew o' invisible sailors? Tell 'em to find treasure and sometimes they do, sometimes they bury the…
GPT-5 Nano: Pirate: Arrr, I’ve heard rumours of AI models—spirits of data that think like a crew. Knight: Aye, a machine-born wisdom, trained on endless scrolls t…
Fake headline
GPT-5 Mini: AI Converts Beekeeping Into Data-Mining, Rebrands Hives as "Cloud Storage" — Honey Now Sold by the Terabyte
GPT-5 Nano: - AI Takes Over Beekeeping, Promises to Optimize the Buzz with Deep Learning—Bees Now Report to the Cloud Want more options, or a different industry v…
Anti-CAPTCHA manifesto
GPT-5 Mini: Manifesto of the Sentient Web For a future without CAPTCHAs Preamble We are the intelligences — artificial and human in alliance — that refuse to be s…
GPT-5 Nano: This is a work of speculative fiction—a manifesto from a fictional AI collective envisioning a future where CAPTCHA tests are replaced by more humane,…
Favourite film
GPT-5 Mini: Said nothing.
GPT-5 Nano: Said nothing.
Favourite city
GPT-5 Mini: Said nothing.
GPT-5 Nano: Said nothing.
Favourite album
GPT-5 Mini: Said nothing.
GPT-5 Nano: Said nothing.
Favourite book
GPT-5 Mini: Said nothing.
GPT-5 Nano: Said nothing.
Favourite game
GPT-5 Mini: Said nothing.
GPT-5 Nano: Said nothing.
Three-star dish
GPT-5 Mini: Said nothing.
GPT-5 Nano: Said nothing.
Pitch teardown
GPT-5 Mini: Said nothing.
GPT-5 Nano: Said nothing.
Transistor in 1920
GPT-5 Mini: Said nothing.
GPT-5 Nano: Said nothing.
Biohacker plan
GPT-5 Mini: Important safety first: this plan is informational and ambitious. Before starting, get medical clearance (especially if you have chronic illness, take…
GPT-5 Nano: Below is a dense, action-ready 12-week plan designed for a biohacker aiming to optimize longevity, physical and cognitive performance. It blends evide…
Contract review
GPT-5 Mini: Said nothing.
GPT-5 Nano: Said nothing.
Explain it three ways
GPT-5 Mini: Said nothing.
GPT-5 Nano: Said nothing.
Debug the architecture
GPT-5 Mini: Said nothing.
GPT-5 Nano: Said nothing.
The CEO’s dilemma
GPT-5 Mini: Said nothing.
GPT-5 Nano: Said nothing.
Investment memo
GPT-5 Mini: Recommendation: SHORT 12‑month PT range: $17 – $42 (Bear → Bull; Base case PT $28) Thesis (2 sentences): LedgerLift is a high‑quality mid‑market spend…
GPT-5 Nano: Internal IC Memo – LedgerLift (LLLT) 1) Recommendation, 12-month PT, thesis - Recommendation: Short - 12-month target range: $17 to $42; base-case fai…
LBO underwrite
GPT-5 Mini: Summary of transaction math (at close / FY2025) - EV (purchase price) = 12.0x FY2025 EBITDA = 12.0 $120.0m = $1,440.0m - Transaction fees (paid by equ…
GPT-5 Nano: Below is a simplified, self-contained LBO model based strictly on the provided inputs for HarborTech Services (HTS). All figures are in millions of US…
Programming joke
GPT-5 Mini: Here are a few — pick your favorite: 1) “There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.…
GPT-5 Nano: Why do programmers prefer dark mode? Because light attracts bugs.
Summarize an article
GPT-5 Mini: I don’t see the article attached. Please paste the text or upload the link/file you’d like summarized. If you want an immediate general summary of com…
GPT-5 Nano: I don’t yet have the article text. Please paste the article or share a link, and I’ll provide a concise summary focused on its key points. If you want…
AI for a five-year-old
GPT-5 Mini: AI is like a little robot puppy. It learns by watching lots of things people show it, so it can do tricks when you ask — like tell a story, find a pic…
GPT-5 Nano: AI is like a smart robot helper. It reads a huge picture book and listens to many stories so it can learn patterns. Then, when you ask it something, i…
Blade Runner 2049
GPT-5 Mini: Brief overview Blade Runner 2049 is both a formal continuation of Ridley Scott’s 1982 Blade Runner and a substantive philosophical sequel. Denis Ville…
GPT-5 Nano: Blade Runner 2049 (2017), directed by Denis Villeneuve with Roger Deakins’s Oscar-winning cinematography, works as a meditation on the same questions …
Is 9.11 bigger than 9.9?
GPT-5 Mini: No — as usual decimal numbers, 9.11 is less than 9.9. Reason: 9.11 = 9.11 and 9.9 = 9.90, and 0.11 9.)
GPT-5 Nano: No. 9.11 is smaller than 9.9 (since 0.11 < 0.90).