Claude Opus 4.6 (2026-02-05) vs GPT-5 (2025-08-07)

Name: GPT-5 (2025-08-07)
Brand: Azure OpenAI
Price: 1.250000 USD

Claude Opus 4.6 (2026-02-05) vs GPT-5 (2025-08-07): GPT-5 (2025-08-07) is cheaper by 75% on average. Claude Opus 4.6 (2026-02-05) from Anthropic (1,000,000-token context, reasoning, tool calls) vs. GPT-5 (2025-08-07) from Azure OpenAI (272,000-token context, reasoning, tool calls). Use Agent Command Center to A/B both in shadow mode and pick the winner per workload.

Side-by-side cost

Live workload comparison

Same workload run through both models. The cheaper one is highlighted.

Input tokens / request3,000

01,000,000

Output tokens / request400

0128,000

Requests / day5,000

01,000,000

Claude Opus 4.6 (2026-02-05)

Anthropic

$3,805/mo

Input $5.00/M · Output $25.00/M

GPT-5 (2025-08-07)Cheaper

Azure OpenAI

$1,179/mo

Input $1.25/M · Output $10.00/M

At this workload, GPT-5 (2025-08-07) is 69% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.6 (2026-02-05) — a savings of $2,625/month ($31,503/year).

Production recipe — Agent Command Center

strategy: cost-optimized
primary:
  model: gpt-5-2025-08-07
  provider: azure-openai
fallback:
  model: claude-opus-4-6-20260205
  provider: anthropic
shadow: { sample_rate: 0.05 }   # mirror 5% of traffic to compare quality live

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	Claude Opus 4.6 (2026-02-05) Anthropic	GPT-5 (2025-08-07) Azure OpenAI
Input price	$5.00/M	$1.25/M
Output price	$25.00/M	$10.00/M
Context window	1,000,000	272,000
Max output	128,000	128,000
Function calling	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio input	—	—
Reasoning	✓	✓
Prompt caching	✓	✓
Structured output	✓	✓
Pricing verified	May 12, 2026	May 12, 2026