Compare / Claude Opus 4.6 vs GPT-5 Mini

Claude Opus 4.6 vs GPT-5 Mini

18 results from 5 sources that measured both models. Each row is in the source's own units; there is no overall winner.

Claude Opus 4.6
Anthropic · profile
GPT-5 Mini
OpenAI · profile
Results compared
18
Shared sources
5
BenchmarkMetricClaude Opus 4.6GPT-5 Mini
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedOverallArena rating 1,4941,394
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedBusiness, management and financeArena rating 1,5011,381
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedCreative writingArena rating 1,5011,324
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedExpert promptsArena rating 1,5471,400
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedInstruction followingArena rating 1,5131,373
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedOverallArena rating 1,5051,390
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedWriting, literature and languageArena rating 1,5001,352
Artificial AnalysisreportedArtificial Analysis Intelligence Indexindex score 31.920.6
Artificial AnalysisreportedGPQA Diamond% of questions 89.6%82.8%
Artificial AnalysisreportedHumanity's Last Exam% of questions 39.9%21.5%
Artificial AnalysisreportedIFBench% of instructions 53.1%75.4%
Artificial AnalysisreportedLong-context reasoning (AA-LCR)% of questions 78.0%72.3%
Artificial AnalysisreportedTerminal-Bench Hard% of tasks 48.5%33.3%
Artificial AnalysisreportedΤ²-bench telecom% of tasks 92.1%71.1%
SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI)reportedCorrect answers% of questions 47.0%21.6%
Vectara Hallucination LeaderboardreportedAnswer rate% of documents 99.8%99.9%
Vectara Hallucination LeaderboardreportedHallucination rate% of summaries 12.2%12.9%
Vending-Bench 2reportedMoney after a yearUS dollars $8,017.59$-31.18

Bold green marks the better value on that metric. Where a source reports ranges that overlap, the difference may not be meaningful; see the benchmark page for ranges.