GPT-6 AstravsClaude Opus 5

GPT-6 Astra leads the overall Podium Score by 4.8 points (86.2 vs 81.4).Category wins: GPT-6 Astra 2 — 2 Claude Opus 5.Claude Opus 5 is the cheaper pick ($25/M vs $50/M per 1M output tokens). GPT-6 Astra is faster (82 t/s vs 60 t/s).

Key VerdictAggregated 2026 Benchmark Analysis

GPT-6 Astra is rated higher overall with a Podium Score of 86.2 (vs 81.4 for Claude Opus 5). Both models show closely matched capabilities across domain benchmarks.

Coding & Engineering
Claude Opus 5 (70.4)
Inference Speed
GPT-6 Astra (82 t/s)
Cost Efficiency
Claude Opus 5 ($25/M/M)
MetricGPT-6 AstraClaude Opus 5
Podium Score86.2 ▲81.4
Arena Elo1498 ▲1492
Intelligence Index61.061.0
Coding67.270.4 ▲
Math97.6
Reasoning96.0 ▲82.3
Agentic72.6
Knowledge31.537.1 ▲
Multimodal98.2
Long-context100.0 ▲99.2
Output speed82 t/s ▲60 t/s
Output price$50/M$25/M ▲
Context window1100K ▲1000K
Scores aggregated from five independent leaderboards. See Methodology. More head-to-heads: GPT-6 Astra vs Claude Mythos · GPT-6 Astra vs Claude Fable 5 · GPT-6 Astra vs Claude Fable 5.1 · GPT-6 Astra vs Kimi K3
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