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Claude Opus 4.6vsGPT-5
Claude Opus 4.6 leads 6 of 7 shared benchmarks. GPT-5 is 2.7x cheaper per token. Claude Opus 4.6 has the larger context window (1M tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
6 – 1
Claude Opus 4.6 leads
Cheaper per token
GPT-5
2.7x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Claude Opus 4.6
1M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 95.0311%
Anthropic · OpenAI
Claude Opus 4.6
Anthropic · released 2026-02-05
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
7 shared · 11 only Claude Opus 4.6 · 1 only GPT-5| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | GPT-5 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 7 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 80.8% ↗ | 74.9% ↗ | +5.9 pt | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| GPQA Diamond | 91.3% ↗ | 86.2% ↗epoch | +5.1 pt | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 26.8% ↗epoch | 22% ↗epoch | +4.8 pt | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 66% ↗epoch | 55.4% ↗epoch | +10.6 pt | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 94.4% ↗epoch | 91.4% ↗epoch | +3 pt | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 47% ↗epoch | 50.1% ↗epoch | -3.1 pt | GPT-5 |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run) | 78.7% ↗epoch | 73.6% ↗epoch | +5.1 pt | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| Only Claude Opus 4.6 reports · 11 | ||||
| AIME 2026 | 96.7% ↗matharena | not reported | — | — |
| LMArena Elo | 1497.5 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| ARC-AGI-2 (Verified) | 68.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MCP Atlas | 59.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMLU | 91.1% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro (no tools) | 73.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro (with tools) | 77.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OSWorld-Verified | 72.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Tau2-bench Retail | 91.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Tau2-bench Telecom | 99.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 65.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only GPT-5 reports · 1 | ||||
| AIME 2025 | not reported | 94.6% ↗ | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Claude Opus 4.6 minus GPT-5 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Claude Opus 4.6 | GPT-5 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1M tokens | 400K tokens | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| Max output | 128K tokens | 128K tokens | Tie |
| Input price / 1M | $5 ↗ | $1.25 ↗ | GPT-5 |
| Output price / 1M | $25 ↗ | $10 ↗ | GPT-5 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.5 ↗ | $0.125 ↗ | GPT-5 |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $30 | $11.25 | GPT-5 |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision | Tie |
| Released | 2026-02-05 | 2025-08-07 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 19 | 9 | — |
Reliability
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