OpenAI's original frontier reasoning model with deep thinking.
Anthropic's fifth-generation Sonnet — near-Opus intelligence at Sonnet speed and price.
No shared demos for these models yet.
No captured outputs for these models yet.
Based on the Capability Index, Claude Sonnet 5 scores higher (80.1 vs 75.2). However, "better" depends on your use case — pricing, speed, context window, and specific capability needs all matter.
Claude Sonnet 5 has a lower blended cost. o1: $15.00 input / $60.00 output. Claude Sonnet 5: $2.00 input / $10.00 output.
Claude Sonnet 5 has a larger context window: o1 supports 200K tokens vs Claude Sonnet 5 at 1M tokens.
Yes, both o1 and Claude Sonnet 5 support vision/image input.
Key differences: Claude Sonnet 5 is significantly cheaper. Compare full specs on this page.
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 o1 and Claude Sonnet 5 for free on idapt.app to see which performs better for your specific needs.