Claude Opus 4.5 vs GPT-5 Mini

Compare Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT-5 Mini side-by-side. See how these vision models stack up in Image Captioning, Classification, Object Detection, OCR, and Open Prompt.

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Claude Opus 4.5 vs GPT-5 Mini: Overview

Claude Opus 4.5

Claude Opus 4.5 is Anthropic’s most advanced large language model in the Claude Opus family, designed for high-end reasoning, coding, and autonomous agent workflows. Released in late 2025, it targets developers and enterprises that need reliable long-context understanding and strong multi-step problem solving in production environments.

The model supports text and code natively, with reported multimodal capabilities for documents and images, and offers an exceptionally large context window of up to roughly 200,000 tokens. Claude Opus 4.5 emphasizes long-horizon task execution, complex code generation and refactoring, and sustained reasoning over large inputs. In the current landscape, it positions itself as a premium, accuracy- and reasoning-focused alternative to faster or cheaper peers, trading cost for depth and contextual fidelity. Typical applications include advanced coding assistants, research analysis, agentic automation, and enterprise knowledge workflows deployed via Anthropic’s API or major cloud platforms.

GPT-5 Mini

GPT-5 Mini, released by OpenAI on August 7, 2025, is a mid-tier variant of the GPT-5 family that balances cost, speed, and capability. It is multimodal, supporting both text and image inputs, and offers a substantial input context window of ~400,000 tokens with output lengths up to ~128,000 tokens. While less powerful than the full GPT-5, it inherits its safety tuning, instruction-following improvements, and multimodal reasoning, making it a practical choice for developers who need large context handling without the expense of premium models.

GPT-5 Mini is optimized for affordability while retaining strong reasoning performance. Benchmarks show it outperforming earlier models such as GPT-4o on many multimodal and medical VQA tasks, though it lags behind GPT-5 on the most complex problems. Ideal use cases include prototyping, scalable content generation, document analysis, and mid-range reasoning tasks where efficiency and context capacity matter more than top-tier accuracy.

Claude Opus 4.5 vs GPT-5 Mini Comparison Table

PropertyClaude Opus 4.5GPT-5 Mini
OrganizationAnthropicOpenAI
Categoryclosedclosed
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateNov 2025Aug 2025
Context Window200K400K
Parameters
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$5.00$0.250
Output $/1M$25.00$2.00
Vision Tasks
CaptioningDemoDemo
ClassificationDemoDemo
Object DetectionDemoDemo
OCRDemoDemo
Vision Language
Visual Question AnsweringDemoDemo
Model Features
Foundation Vision
LLMs with Vision Capabilities
Multimodal Vision
Vision Evalspass/fail results · 67 prompts
Score key:≥75%40–74%<40%
Overall Score
73.13%
Avg Response Time11.72s
Median input tokensincl. image tokens1.4K
Median output tokens143
Est. cost / taskon this benchmark$0.0006
Defect Detection
80%(12/15)
Document Understanding
77.8%(7/9)
Object Counting
10%(1/10)
Object Understanding
85.7%(12/14)
Spatial Understanding
89.5%(17/19)

Output tokens (incl. reasoning) and est. cost / task are measured on this benchmark from a single low-temperature run, and shown only for models whose run covered at least 90% of prompts. Methodology