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Claude Opus 4.6 vs Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast) vs GPT-5.3-Codex

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Winner summary

Claude Opus 4.6 wins 12 of 18 shared benchmarks. Leads in agentic · general · knowledge.

Category leads
agentic·Claude Opus 4.6speed·Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)arena·Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)general·Claude Opus 4.6knowledge·Claude Opus 4.6safety·Claude Opus 4.6coding·Claude Opus 4.6
Hype vs Reality
Claude Opus 4.6
#136 by perf·#9 by attention
DESERVED
Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)
#170 by perf·#9 by attention
OVERHYPED
GPT-5.3-Codex
#73 by perf·#4 by attention
DESERVED
Best value
2.2x better value than Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.6
3.2 pts/$
$15.00/M
Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)
0.5 pts/$
$90.00/M
GPT-5.3-Codex
7.1 pts/$
$7.88/M
Vendor risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
Claude Opus 4.6Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)GPT-5.3-Codex
SWE Atlas · Codebase QnA
Claude Opus 4.6
33.3
Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)
33.3
GPT-5.3-Codex
32.6
Artificial Analysis · Agentic Index
Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast) leads by +5.4
Artificial Analysis Agentic Index · a composite score measuring how well a model performs in agentic workflows · multi-step tool use, planning, error recovery, and autonomous task completion. Aggregates results from multiple agentic benchmarks including SWE-bench, tool-use tests, and planning evaluations. The canonical single-number metric for "how good is this model as an agent?"
Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)
67.6
GPT-5.3-Codex
62.2
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
GPT-5.3-Codex leads by +5.0
Artificial Analysis Coding Index · a composite score that aggregates performance across multiple coding benchmarks into a single index. Tracks code generation quality, debugging ability, multi-language competence, and real-world software engineering tasks. Used by Artificial Analysis to rank model coding capability in a normalized, comparable format. Useful for developers choosing between models for coding-heavy workloads.
Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)
48.1
GPT-5.3-Codex
53.1
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast) leads by +20.5
Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)
53.0
GPT-5.3-Codex
32.5
APEX-Agents
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +14.6
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
Claude Opus 4.6
46.3
GPT-5.3-Codex
31.7
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast) leads by +5.2
Claude Opus 4.6
1537.0
Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)
1542.2
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast) leads by +6.4
Claude Opus 4.6
1497.3
Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)
1503.7
Metr Time Horizons
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +4.3
Claude Opus 4.6
78.9
GPT-5.3-Codex
74.5
PostTrainBench
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +7.1
Claude Opus 4.6
24.8
GPT-5.3-Codex
17.8
MASK
Claude Opus 4.6
96.3
Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)
96.3
Professional Reasoning · Finance
Claude Opus 4.6
53.3
Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)
53.3
Professional Reasoning · Legal
Claude Opus 4.6
52.3
Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)
52.3
Remote Labor Index (RLI)
Claude Opus 4.6
4.2
Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)
4.2
SWE Atlas · Test Writing
Claude Opus 4.6
36.7
Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)
36.7
VisualToolBench (VTB)
Claude Opus 4.6
27.5
Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)
27.5
SWE-Bench verified
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +3.9
SWE-bench Verified · 500 human-validated tasks from 12 real Python repositories (Django, Flask, scikit-learn, sympy, and others). Each task requires the model to produce a git patch that resolves a real GitHub issue and passes the test suite. The verified subset eliminates ambiguous tasks from the original SWE-bench. Claude Mythos Preview leads at 93.9%, crossing 90% for the first time in 2026. Opus 4.6 scores 80.8%. The benchmark remains the most-cited evaluation for code-generation capability.
Claude Opus 4.6
78.7
GPT-5.3-Codex
74.8
Terminal Bench
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +1.4
Terminal-Bench 2.0 · evaluates AI agents on real terminal-based coding tasks · writing scripts, debugging, running tests, and managing projects entirely through command-line interaction. Tests both code quality and terminal fluency. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 69.4%, demonstrating significant agentic terminal competence.
Claude Opus 4.6
79.8
GPT-5.3-Codex
78.4
WeirdML
GPT-5.3-Codex leads by +1.3
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
Claude Opus 4.6
78.0
GPT-5.3-Codex
79.3
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)GPT-5.3-Codex
SWE Atlas · Codebase QnA
33.333.332.6
Artificial Analysis · Agentic Index
Artificial Analysis Agentic Index · a composite score measuring how well a model performs in agentic workflows · multi-step tool use, planning, error recovery, and autonomous task completion. Aggregates results from multiple agentic benchmarks including SWE-bench, tool-use tests, and planning evaluations. The canonical single-number metric for "how good is this model as an agent?"
—67.662.2
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
Artificial Analysis Coding Index · a composite score that aggregates performance across multiple coding benchmarks into a single index. Tracks code generation quality, debugging ability, multi-language competence, and real-world software engineering tasks. Used by Artificial Analysis to rank model coding capability in a normalized, comparable format. Useful for developers choosing between models for coding-heavy workloads.
—48.153.1
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
—53.032.5
APEX-Agents
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
46.3—31.7
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
1537.01542.2—
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1497.31503.7—
Metr Time Horizons
78.9—74.5
PostTrainBench
24.8—17.8
MASK
96.396.3—
Professional Reasoning · Finance
53.353.3—
Professional Reasoning · Legal
52.352.3—
Remote Labor Index (RLI)
4.24.2—
SWE Atlas · Test Writing
36.736.7—
VisualToolBench (VTB)
27.527.5—
SWE-Bench verified
SWE-bench Verified · 500 human-validated tasks from 12 real Python repositories (Django, Flask, scikit-learn, sympy, and others). Each task requires the model to produce a git patch that resolves a real GitHub issue and passes the test suite. The verified subset eliminates ambiguous tasks from the original SWE-bench. Claude Mythos Preview leads at 93.9%, crossing 90% for the first time in 2026. Opus 4.6 scores 80.8%. The benchmark remains the most-cited evaluation for code-generation capability.
78.7—74.8
Terminal Bench
Terminal-Bench 2.0 · evaluates AI agents on real terminal-based coding tasks · writing scripts, debugging, running tests, and managing projects entirely through command-line interaction. Tests both code quality and terminal fluency. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 69.4%, demonstrating significant agentic terminal competence.
79.8—78.4
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
78.0—79.3
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Anthropic logoClaude Opus 4.6$5.00$25.001.0M tokens (~500 books)$100.00
Anthropic logoClaude Opus 4.6 (Fast)$30.00$150.001.0M tokens (~500 books)$600.00
OpenAI logoGPT-5.3-Codex$1.75$14.00400K tokens (~200 books)$48.13