Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.8 vs GPT-6.1 Sol

Claude Opus 4.8 has enough public results to be ranked (#9); GPT-6.1 Sol does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic

60.7

Rank #9 Confirmed

GPT-6.1 Sol OpenAI

42.1

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher in 2 categories and GPT-6.1 Sol in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Claude Opus 4.8 leads 47.6 to 34.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DeepSWE: 59% for Claude Opus 4.8 and 75.2% for GPT-6.1 Sol.
  • GPT-6.1 Sol is cheaper at $2 / $10 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.8.
  • GPT-6.1 Sol accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1M.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-6.1 Sol specifications
Claude Opus 4.8GPT-6.1 Sol
ProviderAnthropicOpenAI
Noometry Index60.742.1
Released2026-05-282026-09-29
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M1.05M
Max output128K128K
Input $ / M tokens$5$2
Output $ / M tokens$25$10
Results tracked652

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 60.2 (#9), GPT-6.1 Sol: 51.4

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8GPT-6.1 Sol
DeepSWE59%75.2%
FrontierCode46.5%—
LMArena WebDev1556—
SciCode53.5%—
GSO47.1%—
WeirdML82.9%—
LMArena Coding1491—
ALE-Bench1,564—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 47.6 (#10), GPT-6.1 Sol: 34.3

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8GPT-6.1 Sol
GDP.pdf24%32%
APEX-Agents48.9%—
OSWorld 2.020.6%—
Remote Labor Index8.3%—
τ²-bench Banking39.7%—
DeepResearch Bench50.2%—
PostTrainBench33.8%—
GBAEval70.9%—
LMArena Search1204—
Vending-Bench 25,787—

Reasoning Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 64.6 (#14), GPT-6.1 Sol: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8GPT-6.1 Sol
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench64.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)91.1%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
CritPt20.9%—
Chess Puzzles34%—
EnigmaEval23.5%—
EBR-Bench28.6%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1481—
Mystery Game Puzzles36%—
DTBench94.9%—
LMCA57.5%—
Surface Evolver Bench87.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
Epoch Capabilities Index158.3—
ForecastBench59.9—

Math Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 78.2 (#11), GPT-6.1 Sol: —

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#26), GPT-6.1 Sol: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8GPT-6.1 Sol
GPQA Diamond91%—
SimpleQA Verified53%—
LMArena Expert1501—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 43.2 (#20), GPT-6.1 Sol: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8GPT-6.1 Sol
LMArena Vision1295—
Blueprint-Bench 214.5%—
Furniture Assembly42.5%—
LMArena Document1475—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 55.4 (#31), GPT-6.1 Sol: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8GPT-6.1 Sol
LMArena Non-English1450—
LMArena Chinese1509—
LMArena French1482—
LMArena German1470—
LMArena Japanese1440—
LMArena Korean1432—
LMArena Russian1476—
LMArena Spanish1470—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 77.6 (#22), GPT-6.1 Sol: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8GPT-6.1 Sol
LMArena Instruction Following1476—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#37), GPT-6.1 Sol: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8GPT-6.1 Sol
LMArena Longer Query1482—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 72.1 (#17), GPT-6.1 Sol: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8GPT-6.1 Sol
LMArena Text1460—
LMArena Creative Writing1453—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840—
EQ-Bench 41281—
LMArena Multi-Turn1476—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than GPT-6.1 Sol?

Claude Opus 4.8 has enough public results to be ranked (#9); GPT-6.1 Sol does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.8 or GPT-6.1 Sol?

GPT-6.1 Sol is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8 lists at $5 and $25.

Is Claude Opus 4.8 or GPT-6.1 Sol better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 60.2 versus 51.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-6.1 Sol does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-6.1 Sol share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.8 has 65 scored results on Noometry and GPT-6.1 Sol has 2.

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