Claude Opus 5 vs GPT-6.1 Sol

$2.19 / task
Wins 4 of 20 benchmarks
$0.21 / task
Wins 7 of 20 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-6.1 Sol62.6
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-6.1 Sol47.5
AA Analyst Agent AA Analyst Agent: Data-analyst tasks: the model explores data with tools and reports findings
Opus 5 · max53.8
GPT-6.1 Sol · max50
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
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-6.1 Sol · max58.1
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-6.1 Sol1,361.2
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-6.1 Sol83.3
DeepSWE 1.1 DeepSWE 1.1: Agents change repository code to resolve software engineering tasks under the stated DeepSWE edition
Opus 568.9
GPT-6.1 Sol · max72.3
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-6.1 Sol · xhigh96.1
EBR Bench EBR Bench: Agents learn to play Earthborne Rangers across repeated playthroughs
Opus 5 · max45.7
GPT-6.1 Sol · max54.3
Furniture Assembly Furniture Assembly: Models inspect furniture assembly photos, identify incorrect builds and locate the mistaken step
Opus 5 · max60.8
GPT-6.1 Sol · max80
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-6.1 Sol—
τ³-Banking · AA τ³-Banking · AA: Agents retrieve banking knowledge and execute tools to resolve customer-support workflows
Opus 538.6
GPT-6.1 Sol—
EnterpriseOps-Gym-AA EnterpriseOps-Gym-AA: Agents complete stateful enterprise workflows in eight domains; final database state determines success
Opus 5 · max47.5
GPT-6.1 Sol—
FrontierCode 1.1 FrontierCode 1.1: Agents implement changes in real repositories, graded against maintainer-defined requirements
Opus 5—
GPT-6.1 Sol · max49.1
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-6.1 Sol · max6.9
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-6.1 Sol—
SpireClimb SpireClimb: Agents play Slay the Spire under the named game and difficulty setting
Opus 5—
GPT-6.1 Sol · max24.7
SpireClimb StS1 A20 Heart SpireClimb StS1 A20 Heart: Agents play Slay the Spire under the named game and difficulty setting
Opus 5—
GPT-6.1 Sol · max20
SpireClimb StS2 A10 SpireClimb StS2 A10: Agents play Slay the Spire under the named game and difficulty setting
Opus 5—
GPT-6.1 Sol · max29.3

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