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GPT-5.1-Codex vs Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · GPT-5.1-Codex · Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast) are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
GPT-5.1-Codex
#23 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)
#122 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
25.3x better value than Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)
GPT-5.1-Codex
12.2 pts/$
$5.63/M
Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)
0.5 pts/$
$90.00/M
Vendor risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$380.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
OpenAI logoGPT-5.1-Codex$1.25$10.00400K tokens (~200 books)$34.38
Anthropic logoClaude Opus 4.6 (Fast)$30.00$150.001.0M tokens (~500 books)$600.00