Claude Opus 4.6 vs GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)
Updated October 21, 2026. 39 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
Decision reading
Pick Claude Opus 4.6 for coding: it scores 66.9 on the Vibe Coding Index against 3.6 for GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18).
Pick GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) when output tokens cost 41.7x less.
- Shared results
- 39
- Claude Opus 4.6 only
- 69
- GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) only
- 7
- Like-for-like categories
- 5 of 9
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, four public coding benchmarks
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.6 scores 66.9 against 3.6.
2 and 1 benchmarks behind the scores
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only Claude Opus 4.6 has a AA Intelligence Index result, 31.9.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Claude Opus 4.6 has a GPQA Diamond result, 89.7%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only Claude Opus 4.6 has a AIME result, 95.6%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Claude Opus 4.6 has a MMLU Pro result, 89.1%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Claude Opus 4.6 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1291.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.6 takes 1M tokens against 128K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)
Claude Opus 4.6 $0.018, GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) $0.0004 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Claude Opus 4.6 has the number, $1.56.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Claude Opus 4.6 66.9 from 2 benchmarks, GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) 3.6 from 1 benchmark.
- Widest category
- Math, 59.2 points apart on average over 4 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- OTIS Mock AIME: Claude Opus 4.6 94.4% against GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) 6.9%, 87.5 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Claude Opus 4.6 $25.00 against GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) $0.60 per million output tokens, 41.7x apart.
- Context window
- Claude Opus 4.6 takes 1M tokens, GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) 128K.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | Claude Opus 4.6 | Bars | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 3 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 7 | 0 | ||
| Math | 4 | 0 | ||
| Knowledge | 5 | 0 | ||
| General | 20 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 39 | 0 |
CodingLike-for-likeFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index30
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglot | Not measured | 3.6% | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| SWE-bench Verified | 75.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 72.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1547 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 84.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 78.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 57.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 48.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| Terminal-Bench | 79.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| FrontierCode | 26.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| GSO-Bench | 41.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| WeirdML | 78.0% | 11.8% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| Cybench | 93.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1534 | 1290 | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1527 | 1291 | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1539 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1559 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | 1543 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 20 boards here | |||
IntelligenceDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index2 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 31.9 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 155.7 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index12 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | 1206 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | 1220 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | 1207 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Android apps | 1204 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building games | 1214 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 92.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| APEX-Agents | 46.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| METR time horizons | 78.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| Remote Labor Index | 4.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| BALROG | Not measured | 17.4% | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| DeepResearch Bench | 55.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $8,018 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 27 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index70
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 89.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 83.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 89.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 39.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 90.5% | 37.7% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| ARC-AGI | 94.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 69.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| SimpleBench | 67.6% | 10.7% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| Chess puzzles | 21.0% | 3.0% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| Mystery game puzzles | 25.0% | 12.0% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| EBR-bench | 12.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| VPCT | Not measured | 34.0% | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1525 | 1267 | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1544 | 1234 | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1530 | 1278 | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1340 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1337 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 95.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 94.4% | 6.9% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 66.0% | 0.7% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 26.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| ProofBench | 50.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| MATH level 5 | Not measured | 52.6% | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1518 | 1267 | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1525 | 1271 | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index50
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 89.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 85.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | 62.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 67.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 76.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 68.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | 95.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 49.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 47.0% | 8.3% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| MMLU | Not measured | 76.7% | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| GeoBench | Not measured | 64.0% | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1519 | 1286 | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1504 | 1282 | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1512 | 1305 | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1497 | 1265 | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 2 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1291 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1284 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1278 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1279 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1274 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1289 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1227 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1254 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index200
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 51.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 86.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| IFBench | 53.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 78.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| DTBench | 91.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| LMCA | 55.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | Not measured | 67.2% | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| CL-bench | 20.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| Furniture assembly | 28.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| CL-bench Life | 17.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1501 | 1286 | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1521 | 1258 | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1505 | 1268 | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| LMArena Vision | 1316 | 1066 | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| LMArena Text: English | 1511 | 1301 | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1488 | 1266 | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1551 | 1265 | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| LMArena Text: German | 1500 | 1272 | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1488 | 1216 | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1464 | 1195 | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| LMArena Text: French | 1512 | 1297 | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1510 | 1276 | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1497 | 1275 | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1499 | 1244 | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1511 | 1285 | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1518 | 1289 | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1502 | 1282 | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1492 | 1253 | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1324 | 1072 | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1370 | 1033 | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1326 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1314 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| LMArena Vision: recognizing things | 1274 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1331 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| LMArena Document | 1507 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.6 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6 | OpenAI GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | February 4, 2026 | July 18, 2024 |
| Context window | 1M | 128K |
| Input $/Mtok | $5.00 | $0.15 |
| Output $/Mtok | $25.00 | $0.60 |
| Coding index | 66.9 | 3.6 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 2 | 1 |
| Cost per solved task | $1.56 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) for coding?
Pick Claude Opus 4.6 for coding: it scores 66.9 on the Vibe Coding Index against 3.6 for GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18). Pick GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) when output tokens cost 41.7x less.
Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.6 or GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)?
Claude Opus 4.6 costs $5.00 per million input tokens and $25.00 per million output tokens; GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) costs $0.15 and $0.60. Cost per solved task is known for Claude Opus 4.6 only.
Which has the bigger context window, Claude Opus 4.6 or GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)?
Claude Opus 4.6, with 1M tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks is the Claude Opus 4.6 vs GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) comparison based on?
39 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Claude Opus 4.6's coding index rests on 2 independent benchmarks and GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)'s on 1. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.