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Claude Sonnet 5vsGPT-4.1 nano

Claude Sonnet 5 leads 3 of 3 shared benchmarks. GPT-4.1 nano is 24x cheaper per token. GPT-4.1 nano has the larger context window (1.0M tokens).

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Shared benchmarks
3 – 0
Claude Sonnet 5 leads
Cheaper per token
GPT-4.1 nano
24x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
GPT-4.1 nano
1.0M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 95.4802%
Anthropic · OpenAI
Claude Sonnet 5
Anthropic · released 2026-06-30
textvision
Context
1M
Max out
128K
Input /1M
$2
Output /1M
$10
Cached /1M
$0.2
Scores
8 · 8 core
GPT-4.1 nano
OpenAI · released 2025-04-14
textvision
Context
1.0M
Max out
33K
Input /1M
$0.1
Output /1M
$0.4
Cached /1M
$0.025
Scores
7 · 5 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5GPT-4.1 nanoΔEdge
Reported by both · 3
GPQA Diamond90.5% epoch50.3% +40.2 ptClaude Sonnet 5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)94.7% epoch28.9% epoch+65.8 ptClaude Sonnet 5
SimpleQA Verified33.7% epoch6% epoch+27.7 ptClaude Sonnet 5
Only Claude Sonnet 5 reports · 5
SWE-bench Verified85.2% not reported
Humanity's Last Exam (no tools)43.2% not reported
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)29.3% epochnot reported
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)65.6% epochnot reported
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)57.4% not reported
Only GPT-4.1 nano reports · 3
MMLUnot reported80.1%
Aider Polyglotnot reported9.8%
AIME 2024not reported29.4%
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 Sonnet 5 minus GPT-4.1 nano 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

SpecClaude Sonnet 5GPT-4.1 nanoEdge
Context window1M tokens1.0M tokensGPT-4.1 nano
Max output128K tokens33K tokensClaude Sonnet 5
Input price / 1M$2 $0.1 GPT-4.1 nano
Output price / 1M$10 $0.4 GPT-4.1 nano
Cached input / 1M$0.2 $0.025 GPT-4.1 nano
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$12$0.5GPT-4.1 nano
Modalitiestext · visiontext · visionTie
Released2026-06-302025-04-14
Cited benchmark scores87
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