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Claude Opus 4.6 vs GPT-5

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Winner summary

Claude Opus 4.6 wins 26 of 28 shared benchmarks. Leads in agentic · reasoning · knowledge.

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Hype vs Reality
Claude Opus 4.6
#153 by perf·#5 by attention
DESERVED
GPT-5
#116 by perf·#9 by attention
DESERVED
Best value
2.9x better value than Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.6
3.2 pts/$
$15.00/M
GPT-5
9.3 pts/$
$5.63/M
Vendor risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
Claude Opus 4.6GPT-5
APEX-Agents
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +28.0
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
18.3
ARC-AGI
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +28.3
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
Claude Opus 4.6
94.0
GPT-5
65.7
ARC-AGI-2
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +59.3
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
Claude Opus 4.6
69.2
GPT-5
9.9
Chess Puzzles
GPT-5 leads by +20.0
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
Claude Opus 4.6
17.0
GPT-5
37.0
DeepResearch Bench
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +0.2
DeepResearch Bench · evaluates AI on complex multi-step research tasks requiring information gathering, synthesis, and producing comprehensive analyses.
Claude Opus 4.6
55.3
GPT-5
55.1
Dtbench
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +0.9
Claude Opus 4.6
85.3
GPT-5
84.5
Ebr Bench
Claude Opus 4.6
12.7
GPT-5
12.7
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +8.3
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
Claude Opus 4.6
40.7
GPT-5
32.4
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +10.4
FrontierMath Tier 4 (Jul 2025) · the most challenging tier of frontier mathematics, containing problems that push the absolute limits of AI mathematical reasoning.
Claude Opus 4.6
22.9
GPT-5
12.5
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +4.9
Claude Opus 4.6
26.8
GPT-5
21.9
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +11.1
Claude Opus 4.6
69.4
GPT-5
58.4
GPQA diamond
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +6.1
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Claude Opus 4.6
91.0
GPT-5
85.0
GSO-Bench
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +26.4
GSO-Bench · evaluates AI models on real-world open-source software engineering tasks, testing the ability to understand and resolve actual GitHub issues.
Claude Opus 4.6
33.3
GPT-5
6.9
HLE
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +9.6
HLE (Humanity's Last Exam) · a reasoning benchmark designed to be the hardest public evaluation of AI. Questions span mathematics, physics, philosophy, and logic · curated to be at or beyond the frontier of human expert capability. Tested with and without tool augmentation.
Claude Opus 4.6
31.1
GPT-5
21.6
Lmca
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +18.5
Claude Opus 4.6
65.6
GPT-5
47.0
Metr Time Horizons
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +9.3
Claude Opus 4.6
78.9
GPT-5
69.6
Mirrorcode
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +28.9
Claude Opus 4.6
33.3
GPT-5
4.4
Mystery Game Puzzles
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +2.2
Claude Opus 4.6
17.4
GPT-5
15.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +3.1
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Claude Opus 4.6
94.4
GPT-5
91.4
Proofbench
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +32.0
Claude Opus 4.6
50.0
GPT-5
18.0
Remote Labor Index
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +2.5
Claude Opus 4.6
4.2
GPT-5
1.7
Professional Reasoning · Finance
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +2.0
Claude Opus 4.6
53.3
GPT-5
51.3
Professional Reasoning · Legal
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +3.3
Claude Opus 4.6
52.3
GPT-5
49.0
SimpleBench
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +13.1
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
Claude Opus 4.6
61.1
GPT-5
48.0
SimpleQA Verified
GPT-5 leads by +4.1
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
Claude Opus 4.6
46.5
GPT-5
50.6
SWE-Bench verified
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +5.2
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. The benchmark remains the most-cited evaluation for code-generation capability.
Claude Opus 4.6
78.7
GPT-5
73.5
Terminal Bench
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +30.2
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 4.6
79.8
GPT-5
49.6
WeirdML
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +17.2
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
Claude Opus 4.6
77.9
GPT-5
60.7
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6GPT-5
APEX-Agents
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
46.318.3
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
94.065.7
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.
69.29.9
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
17.037.0
DeepResearch Bench
DeepResearch Bench · evaluates AI on complex multi-step research tasks requiring information gathering, synthesis, and producing comprehensive analyses.
55.355.1
Dtbench
85.384.5
Ebr Bench
12.712.7
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
40.732.4
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private
FrontierMath Tier 4 (Jul 2025) · the most challenging tier of frontier mathematics, containing problems that push the absolute limits of AI mathematical reasoning.
22.912.5
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private
26.821.9
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private
69.458.4
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
91.085.0
GSO-Bench
GSO-Bench · evaluates AI models on real-world open-source software engineering tasks, testing the ability to understand and resolve actual GitHub issues.
33.36.9
HLE
HLE (Humanity's Last Exam) · a reasoning benchmark designed to be the hardest public evaluation of AI. Questions span mathematics, physics, philosophy, and logic · curated to be at or beyond the frontier of human expert capability. Tested with and without tool augmentation.
31.121.6
Lmca
65.647.0
Metr Time Horizons
78.969.6
Mirrorcode
33.34.4
Mystery Game Puzzles
17.415.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
94.491.4
Proofbench
50.018.0
Remote Labor Index
4.21.7
Professional Reasoning · Finance
53.351.3
Professional Reasoning · Legal
52.349.0
SimpleBench
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
61.148.0
SimpleQA Verified
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
46.550.6
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. The benchmark remains the most-cited evaluation for code-generation capability.
78.773.5
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.
79.849.6
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
77.960.7
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
OpenAI logoGPT-5$1.25$10.00400K tokens (~200 books)$34.38