Claude 3 Opusvso1-mini
Claude 3 Opus | o1-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Specifications | ||
Context windowHow much text the model can hold in mind at once — your question, any documents you attach, the conversation so far, and its own reply. Go past it and the earliest part falls out of view. | — | 128k |
| API pricingUSD per 1M tokens · lower wins | ||
Input priceWhat you pay for everything you send the model — your question, plus any documents or earlier conversation you include with it. | — | $1.10 |
Output priceWhat you pay for the text the model writes back. It is normally the dearer half: producing an answer costs more than reading one. | — | $4.40 |
Cached input priceA reduced rate for text you send over and over. If every request starts with the same instructions or the same document, the provider keeps a copy ready and charges less to read it again. | — | $0.55 |
| Benchmarks | ||
GPQA DiamondScience — Graduate-level science questions in biology, physics, and chemistry — hard enough that subject-matter PhDs score around 65%. Higher is better. | 50.4% | 60% |
| BenchmarksPublished by one model only | ||
SWE-Bench VerifiedCoding — Real coding tasks pulled from open-source projects — the AI has to find and fix actual bugs. A human-checked version of the original SWE-Bench. Higher is better. | 33% | — |
| Overview | ||
| Company | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Release date | Mar 4 2024 | Sep 12 2024 |
| Access | Proprietary | Proprietary |
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Frequently asked questions
o1-mini leads Claude 3 Opus on 1 of the 1 benchmark they both report (GPQA Diamond). Only o1-mini has a verified first-party API price: $1.10 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens. No pay-as-you-go API rate is tracked for Claude 3 Opus. Claude 3 Opus shipped 192 days before o1-mini, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Published specifications for these two models are limited — see each model page for the latest details.
On GPQA Diamond, o1-mini leads at 60% vs Claude 3 Opus at 50.4%.
Claude 3 Opus was released by Anthropic on Mar 4 2024.
o1-mini was released by OpenAI on Sep 12 2024.
o1-mini leads on GPQA Diamond — Claude 3 Opus 50.4% vs o1-mini 60%.
Only o1-mini has a verified first-party API price: $1.10 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens. No pay-as-you-go API rate is tracked for Claude 3 Opus. Rates are pay-as-you-go API prices verified on August 18, 2026.