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)
| Metric | GPT-6 Astra | Claude Opus 5 |
|---|---|---|
| Podium Score | 86.2 ▲ | 81.4 |
| Arena Elo | 1498 ▲ | 1492 |
| Intelligence Index | 61.0 | 61.0 |
| Coding | 67.2 | 70.4 ▲ |
| Math | 97.6 | — |
| Reasoning | 96.0 ▲ | 82.3 |
| Agentic | 72.6 | — |
| Knowledge | 31.5 | 37.1 ▲ |
| Multimodal | 98.2 | — |
| Long-context | 100.0 ▲ | 99.2 |
| Output speed | 82 t/s ▲ | 60 t/s |
| Output price | $50/M | $25/M ▲ |
| Context window | 1100K ▲ | 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