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Claude Sonnet 5 vs GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini

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Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · Claude Sonnet 5 · GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
Claude Sonnet 5
#66 by perf·#11 by attention
UNDERRATED
GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini
#52 by perf·#9 by attention
DESERVED
Best value
5.6x better value than Claude Sonnet 5
Claude Sonnet 5
9.6 pts/$
$6.00/M
GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini
53.7 pts/$
$1.13/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 Sonnet 5$2.00$10.001.0M tokens (~500 books)$40.00
OpenAI logoGPT-5.1-Codex-Mini$0.25$2.00400K tokens (~200 books)$6.88