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Claude Opus 4.5 vs GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · Claude Opus 4.5 · GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
Claude Opus 4.5
#113 by perf·no signal
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GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini
#41 by perf·no signal
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Best value
17.7x better value than Claude Opus 4.5
Claude Opus 4.5
3.0 pts/$
$15.00/M
GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini
53.7 pts/$
$1.13/M
Vendor risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$380.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Anthropic logoClaude Opus 4.5$5.00$25.00200K tokens (~100 books)$100.00
OpenAI logoGPT-5.1-Codex-Mini$0.25$2.00400K tokens (~200 books)$6.88