Claude Opus 5 vs GPT-6 Astra

$2.19 / task
Wins 6 of 22 benchmarks
$1.54 / task
Wins 7 of 22 benchmarks
AutomationBench-AA AutomationBench-AA: Agents orchestrate SaaS workflows through APIs; objectives receive credit only when the task has no guardrail violation
Opus 554.3
GPT-6 Astra64.6
GDPval-AA (work tasks) 2.1 GDPval-AA (work tasks) 2.1: Real work tasks from many professions (reports, spreadsheets, analyses), graded against expert work
Opus 549.6
GPT-6 Astra49.3
τ³-Banking · AA τ³-Banking · AA: Agents retrieve banking knowledge and execute tools to resolve customer-support workflows
Opus 538.6
GPT-6 Astra35.5
AA Analyst Agent AA Analyst Agent: Data-analyst tasks: the model explores data with tools and reports findings
Opus 5 · max53.8
GPT-6 Astra · max51.3
Terminal-Bench 4.0 Terminal-Bench 4.0 · source setting 2: Agents use a terminal to complete executable coding, system administration and research tasks in the 4.0 suite
Opus 534.3
GPT-6 Astra49.5
Terminal-Bench Science 0.1 Terminal-Bench Science 0.1: Agents complete expert-authored research workflows across five scientific domains in a terminal
Opus 5 · max28.6
GPT-6 Astra · max63.3
AA-Briefcase 1.1 · Elo AA-Briefcase 1.1 · Elo: Agents produce professional deliverables; blind pairwise comparisons produce the source Elo rating
Opus 51,434.9
GPT-6 Astra1,460.9
AA-LCR (long context) 1.1 AA-LCR (long context) 1.1: Questions that need reading and connecting facts across very long documents (around 100K tokens)
Opus 582
GPT-6 Astra79.7
DeepSWE 1.1 DeepSWE 1.1: Agents change repository code to resolve software engineering tasks under the stated DeepSWE edition
Opus 568.9
GPT-6 Astra72.8
SWE-bench Pro (v2 full) SWE-bench Pro (v2 full): Agents resolve repository issues under the network-locked v2 protocol; full and 51-task Hard results are separate
Opus 5 · xhigh99.4
GPT-6 Astra · high96.9
SWE-bench Pro (v2 hard) SWE-bench Pro (v2 hard): Agents resolve repository issues under the network-locked v2 protocol; full and 51-task Hard results are separate
Opus 5 · xhigh98
GPT-6 Astra · high90.2
EBR Bench EBR Bench: Agents learn to play Earthborne Rangers across repeated playthroughs
Opus 5 · max45.7
GPT-6 Astra · max76.2
Furniture Assembly Furniture Assembly: Models inspect furniture assembly photos, identify incorrect builds and locate the mistaken step
Opus 5 · max60.8
GPT-6 Astra · max80
AutomationBench · Zapier run AutomationBench · Zapier run: End-to-end completion of business workflows using real SaaS applications
Opus 5—
GPT-6 Astra34.1
τ³-bench · banking · 1.0.1 τ-bench official · 3-banking-1.0.1: Customer-service agents converse with simulated users, retrieve domain knowledge and change state through tools
Opus 5 · max48.7
GPT-6 Astra—
ITBench SRE ITBench SRE: IT incident tasks: diagnose and fix broken systems like a site-reliability engineer
Opus 5—
GPT-6 Astra · max48.6
EnterpriseOps-Gym-AA EnterpriseOps-Gym-AA: Agents complete stateful enterprise workflows in eight domains; final database state determines success
Opus 5 · max47.5
GPT-6 Astra—
FrontierCode 1.1 FrontierCode 1.1: Agents implement changes in real repositories, graded against maintainer-defined requirements
Opus 5—
GPT-6 Astra · max47
Harvey LAB-AA 1.1 Harvey LAB-AA 1.1: Legal agents work from case documents; every rubric criterion must pass and material hallucinations receive no credit
Opus 5—
GPT-6 Astra · max8.6
SpireClimb SpireClimb: Agents play Slay the Spire under the named game and difficulty setting
Opus 5—
GPT-6 Astra · max25.7
SpireClimb StS1 A20 Heart SpireClimb StS1 A20 Heart: Agents play Slay the Spire under the named game and difficulty setting
Opus 5—
GPT-6 Astra · max16.7
SpireClimb StS2 A10 SpireClimb StS2 A10: Agents play Slay the Spire under the named game and difficulty setting
Opus 5—
GPT-6 Astra · max34.7

Specs

SpecOpus 5GPT-6 Astra
Input, per 1M$5$10
Output, per 1M$25$50
Cost per task?$2.19$1.54
Speed, tok/s5559
Context1M1.05M
WeightsClosedClosed
ReleasedJul 2026Sep 2026
See images✓✓
Read PDFsPartialPartial
Hear audio——
Watch video——
Call tools✓✓
Force a tool callPartialPartial
Return strict JSON✓✓
Search the web?✓
Run code?✓
Use a computer?✓

What breaks when you switch

Opus 5 → GPT-6 Astra
Monitoring can return HTTP 403›

Misalignment monitoring can return HTTP 403 before streaming or errors after output; match misalignment_policy_violation and handle stream errors.

No none reasoning effort›

The none reasoning effort is unsupported on GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol; use low instead.

Remove unsupported sampling parameters›

When reasoning effort is not none, remove temperature, top_p and top_logprobs, plus Chat Completions logprobs or Responses output logprobs inclusion.

GPT-6 Astra → Opus 5
Context: 1.05M → 1M