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GPT-5 (high) on Humanity's Last Exam: 21.4% accuracy

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Summary

GPT-5 (high) from OpenAI scored 21.4 on Humanity's Last Exam, placing it top 10 (rank 6 of 97) on this benchmark. This places the model in the weak band for Humanity's Last Exam. Below the threshold for production reliance on this benchmark family. Consider only for narrow, fully-tested tasks.

Model details

  • Provider: OpenAI
  • Model key: openai/gpt-5-high
  • Context length: 400,000 tokens
  • License: Proprietary
  • Open weights: no

Benchmark methodology

Secondary metrics

  • Readability score: 53.2
  • Toxicity score: 0.001
  • Ethics score: 0.000

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Source: LayerLens evaluation 68ffb622d90dfc27d9963dbd. Updated 2025-10-30.