Anthropic's fifth-generation Sonnet — near-Opus intelligence at Sonnet speed and price.
OpenAI's powerful general-purpose frontier model.
No shared demos for these models yet.
No captured outputs for these models yet.
Based on the Capability Index, GPT 5 scores higher (81.8 vs 80.1). However, "better" depends on your use case — pricing, speed, context window, and specific capability needs all matter.
GPT 5 has a lower blended cost. Claude Sonnet 5: $2.00 input / $10.00 output. GPT 5: $1.25 input / $10.00 output.
Claude Sonnet 5 has a larger context window: Claude Sonnet 5 supports 1M tokens vs GPT 5 at 400K tokens.
Yes, both Claude Sonnet 5 and GPT 5 support vision/image input.
Claude Sonnet 5 and GPT 5 have similar overall capabilities. The main differences lie in pricing, context window size, and provider-specific strengths. Use this comparison page to review all metrics side by side.
If cost is your priority, choose the cheaper option. If you need the highest intelligence for complex tasks, pick the higher-scoring model. For long documents or codebases, choose the larger context window. You can try both Claude Sonnet 5 and GPT 5 for free on idapt.app to see which performs better for your specific needs.