Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs GPT-5.1

Side-by-side comparison of pricing, features, and capabilities

Pricing

Input / 1M tokens
$3.00
$1.25
Output / 1M tokens
$15.00
$10.00
Avg. Cost / 1M
$9.00
$5.63

Specifications

Context Window
200K
128K
Tier
high
frontier
Provider
Anthropic
OpenAI

Capabilities

Feature
claude-sonnet-4.5
gpt-5.1
text
code
vision
reasoning
long context

Verdict

Best for Cost

gpt-5.1 is 38% cheaper on average

Best for Quality

gpt-5.1 (frontier tier) is positioned as higher quality

Best for Long Documents

claude-sonnet-4.5 has a larger context window (200K)

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