Anthropic's Latest Report(s)/Claim(s) with 'cost-considerations'...
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their chart as shared on X.
All prices are USD per 1M tokens (MTok).
| Benchmark / Pricing metric | Opus 4.5 | Sonnet 4.5 | Opus 4.1 | Gemini 3 Pro | GPT-5.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agentic coding (SWE-bench Verified) | 80.9% | 77.2% | 74.5% | 76.2% | 76.3% (GPT-5.1) 77.9% (Codex-Max) |
| Agentic terminal coding (Terminal-bench 2.0) | 59.3% | 50.0% | 46.5% | 54.2% | 47.6% (GPT-5.1) 58.1% (Codex-Max) |
| Agentic tool use (t2-bench) | Retail 88.9% Telecom 98.2% |
Retail 86.2% Telecom 98.0% |
Retail 86.8% Telecom 71.5% |
Retail 85.3% Telecom 98.0% |
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| Scaled tool use (MCP Atlas) | 62.3% | 43.8% | 40.9% | — | — |
| Computer use (OSWorld) | 66.3% | 61.4% | 44.4% | — | — |
| Novel problem solving (ARC-AGI-2, Verified) | 37.6% | 13.6% | — | 31.1% | 17.6% |
| Graduate-level reasoning (GPQA Diamond) | 87.0% | 83.4% | 81.0% | 91.9% | 88.1% |
| Visual reasoning (MMMU, validation) | 80.7% | 77.8% | 77.1% | — | 85.4% |
| Multilingual Q&A (MMMLU) | 90.8% | 89.1% | 89.5% | 91.8% | 91.0% |
| Price: base input ($ / 1M tokens) | $5.00 | $3.00 | $15.00 | $2.00 | $1.25 |
| Price: base output ($ / 1M tokens) | $25.00 | $15.00 | $75.00 | $12.00 | $10.00 |
| Price: long-context input (>200k tokens, if offered) | Same as base | $6.00 | Same as base | $4.00 | Same as base |
| Price: long-context output (>200k tokens, if offered) | Same as base | $22.50 | Same as base | $18.00 | Same as base |
| Price: batch input ($ / 1M tokens; where explicit) | $2.50 | $1.50 | $7.50 | $1.00 | ≈$0.63* |
| Price: batch output ($ / 1M tokens; where explicit) | $12.50 | $7.50 | $37.50 | $6.00 | ≈$5.00* |
| Price: simple avg (0.5·input + 0.5·output) | $15.00 | $9.00 | $45.00 | $7.00 | $5.63 |
| Price: blended 80% input / 20% output | $9.00 | $5.40 | $27.00 | $4.00 | $3.00 |
| Example: 1M input + 0.25M output | $11.25 | $6.75 | $33.75 | $5.00 | $3.75 |
| Blended 80/20 cost vs GPT-5.1 (× multiple) | 3.0× | 1.8× | 9.0× | 1.33× | 1.0× |
*For GPT-5.1, the “batch” prices are approximate: OpenAI’s Batch API gives 50% off the base input/output pricing for any model, so these numbers are just 50% of the GPT-5.1 base rates.
- Claude (Opus 4.5, Sonnet 4.5, Opus 4.1) – base, batch, and long-context prices are from Anthropic’s official “Models & pricing” documentation.
- Gemini 3 Pro Preview – prices and 200k-token threshold from Google’s Gemini API developer pricing page.
- GPT-5.1 – base input/output and cached-input prices from OpenAI’s API pricing page; Batch API 50% discount also documented there.
Obviously, a lot more could be said/done/analyzed, however, at a glance, this helps some, size things up, as to be able to make more informed decisions.
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