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The claim defines the precise boundary of what model variants are accessible through the API, which determines what developers can build against.
Developers using the API can access only these three specified thinking model variants and no others under this provision.
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"In the API, we provide direct access to the thinking model, its mini version, and an even smaller and faster nano version of the thinking model, made for developers (gpt-5-thinking-nano).Excerpt from OpenAI's GPT-5 System Card
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The claim defines the precise boundary of what model variants are accessible through the API, which determines what developers can build against.
Developers using the API can access only these three specified thinking model variants and no others under this provision.
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