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Claude Opus 5 vs GPT-5.1-Codex
Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.
Winner summary
Claude Opus 5 wins on 0/0 benchmarks
Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · Claude Opus 5 · GPT-5.1-Codex are still filling in scores.
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
Claude Opus 5
#21 by perf·#6 by attention
GPT-5.1-Codex
#26 by perf·#4 by attention
Best value
GPT-5.1-Codex
2.6x better value than Claude Opus 5
Claude Opus 5
4.6 pts/$
$15.00/M
GPT-5.1-Codex
12.2 pts/$
$5.63/M
Vendor risk
Who is behind the model
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $5.00 | $25.00 | 1.0M tokens (~500 books) | $100.00 | |
| $1.25 | $10.00 | 400K tokens (~200 books) | $34.38 |