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Claude Opus 5 vs GPT 6 Astra

Compare Claude Opus 5 from Anthropic and GPT 6 Astra from OpenAI on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

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Anthropic logo
Claude Opus 5
Anthropic · text, image, pdf → text

Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic’s flagship model for demanding reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agentic work. It is particularly strong at end-to-end software tasks, code review and bug finding, visual analysis of charts and documents, complex office deliverables, and coordinating parallel subagents. The model maintains strong instruction following and tool use across extended tasks, while remaining effective at lower effort settings for workloads that prioritize latency and token efficiency.

Input$5 /M
Output$25 /M
Cache read$0.5 /M
OpenAI logo
GPT 6 Astra
OpenAI · text, image → text

GPT-6 Astra is OpenAI's newest and most intelligent model, with industry-leading performance in computer operations, web browsing, software engineering, scientific research, and professional work. It excels at executing multi-step workflows across code, browsers, and various professional software. Astra can achieve better results with significantly fewer output tokens, making its estimated API cost per task lower.

Input$10 /M
Output$50 /M
Cache read$1 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Claude Opus 5
GPT 6 Astra
Input /M
$5
$10
Output /M
$25
$50
Cache read /M
$0.5
$1
Context length
1,000,000
1,050,000
Max output
128,000
128,000
Time to First Token
1.1 s
12.3 s
Throughput
77.1 tok/s
32.2 tok/s
Modalities
textimagepdf
textimage
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsstructured outputslong contextweb
toolsthinkingstructured outputs
API Formats
chat_completions · claude_api · responses
chat_completions · responses
Released
July 24, 2026
September 5, 2026

Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

WebDev Arena
claude-opus-5gpt-6-astra
1560166017601860
Overall
16611796
React
16771819
HTML
16511725
Gaming
17321867
Simulations
17111846
Data analytics
15801692

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

Claude Opus 5
$675 /mo
GPT 6 Astra
$1,350 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Claude Opus 5, GPT 6 Astra?

Claude Opus 5: $25/M output tokens; GPT 6 Astra: $50/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

Which responds faster?

Claude Opus 5: 1.1s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

How large is each context window?

Claude Opus 5 accepts 1,000,000 and GPT 6 Astra accepts 1,050,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on Claude Opus 5 and 128,000 tokens on GPT 6 Astra.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Claude Opus 5 at 77.1 tok/s and GPT 6 Astra at 32.2 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Claude Opus 5 accepts text, image and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, structured outputs, long context and web search; GPT 6 Astra accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, thinking and structured outputs.

Can I call Claude Opus 5 and GPT 6 Astra with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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