Claude Opus 5 vs GPT-6.1 Sol

$2.19 / task
Wins 2 of 5 benchmarks
$0.21 / task
Wins 3 of 5 benchmarks
Humanity's Last Exam Humanity's Last Exam: Very hard expert questions across many fields, written to stump today’s models
Opus 551.3
GPT-6.1 Sol49.9
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-6.1 Sol48
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-6.1 Sol62.6
Arena Text · creative writing Arena Text · creative writing: Human pairwise preferences in the stated text vote pool
Opus 5 · max1,471
GPT-6.1 Sol · max1,458
MMMU-Pro (vision) MMMU-Pro (vision): College-level questions that require understanding images: charts, diagrams, photos
Opus 581.6
GPT-6.1 Sol83.9

Specs

SpecOpus 5GPT-6.1 Sol
Input, per 1M$5$2
Output, per 1M$25$10
Cost per task?$2.19$0.21
Speed, tok/s5545
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-6.1 Sol
Remove unsupported parameters›

With reasoning enabled, remove temperature, top_p and top_logprobs, plus Chat Completions logprobs or Responses message.output_text.logprobs includes.

Responses API for tool calling · Chat Completions›

Use Responses for tools; Chat Completions supports this model without tool calling.

No none or minimal reasoning›

The none and minimal reasoning efforts are unsupported; choose low, medium, high, xhigh or max.

More than 272K input tokens›

Prompts above 272K input tokens charge 2× input and cache rates and 1.5× output rates for the entire request.

Cache writes billed at 1.25x›

Cache writes cost 1.25× the uncached input token rate.

Ultrafast prices 6x Standard›

Ultrafast mode costs 6× Standard token prices.

GPT-6.1 Sol → Opus 5
Context: 1.05M → 1M