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Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast) vs GPT-5 Pro vs o3 Pro

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Winner summary

GPT-5 Pro wins 3 of 5 shared benchmarks. Leads in reasoning · coding.

Category leads
knowledge·Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)reasoning·GPT-5 Procoding·GPT-5 Pro
Hype vs Reality
Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)
#122 by perf·no signal
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GPT-5 Pro
#124 by perf·no signal
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o3 Pro
#35 by perf·no signal
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Best value
1.9x better value than GPT-5 Pro
Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)
0.5 pts/$
$90.00/M
GPT-5 Pro
0.6 pts/$
$67.50/M
o3 Pro
1.2 pts/$
$50.00/M
Vendor risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$380.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)GPT-5 Proo3 Pro
Professional Reasoning · Finance
Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast) leads by +2.2
Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)
53.3
GPT-5 Pro
51.1
o3 Pro
49.1
Professional Reasoning · Legal
Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast) leads by +2.4
Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)
52.3
GPT-5 Pro
49.9
o3 Pro
49.7
ARC-AGI
GPT-5 Pro leads by +10.9
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
GPT-5 Pro
70.2
o3 Pro
59.3
ARC-AGI-2
GPT-5 Pro leads by +13.5
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
GPT-5 Pro
18.3
o3 Pro
4.9
WeirdML
GPT-5 Pro leads by +2.2
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
GPT-5 Pro
60.4
o3 Pro
58.2
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6 (Fast)GPT-5 Proo3 Pro
Professional Reasoning · Finance
53.351.149.1
Professional Reasoning · Legal
52.349.949.7
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
70.259.3
ARC-AGI-2
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
18.34.9
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
60.458.2
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Anthropic logoClaude Opus 4.6 (Fast)$30.00$150.001.0M tokens (~500 books)$600.00
OpenAI logoGPT-5 Pro$15.00$120.00400K tokens (~200 books)$412.50
OpenAI logoo3 Pro$20.00$80.00200K tokens (~100 books)$350.00