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Claude Opus 5 vs GPT-5 Chat

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Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · Claude Opus 5 · GPT-5 Chat are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
Claude Opus 5
#21 by perf·#6 by attention
DESERVED
GPT-5 Chat
#4 by perf·#4 by attention
DESERVED
Best value
3.1x better value than Claude Opus 5
Claude Opus 5
4.6 pts/$
$15.00/M
GPT-5 Chat
14.6 pts/$
$5.63/M
Vendor risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$965.0B·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 5$5.00$25.001.0M tokens (~500 books)$100.00
OpenAI logoGPT-5 Chat$1.25$10.00128K tokens (~64 books)$34.38