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Claude Opus 4.1 vs GPT-5.2 Pro (batch)

Source: OpenRouter (live)

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Best value in each row is highlighted. “Not declared” means the provider does not advertise the feature on its listing.

Side-by-side comparison of Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.1, OpenAI: GPT-5.2 Pro (batch)
Attribute
AnthropicClaude Opus 4.1anthropic/claude-opus-4.1
OpenAIGPT-5.2 Pro (batch)openai/gpt-5.2-pro:batch
Input priceUSD per 1M tokens$15.00$10.50 (best)
Output priceUSD per 1M tokens$75.00 (best)$84.00
Blended price75% in / 25% out$30.00$28.88 (best)
Vs. market median37.5× dearer36.1× dearer
Value rankcheapest = 1#407#406 (best)
Context windowtokens200K400K (best)
Max outputtokens32K128K (best)
Input modalitiesimage, text, fileimage, text, file
Output modalitiestexttext
Tool callingDeclaredDeclared
ReasoningDeclaredDeclared
Structured outputNot declaredDeclared
Listed on OpenRouter2025-08-052025-12-10 (best)

Blended price assumes a 3:1 input-to-output token mix. Median is across all 417 priced models.

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What the numbers say

  • OpenAI: GPT-5.2 Pro (batch) is the cheapest here at $28.88/M blended — 1.0× less than Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.1.
  • OpenAI: GPT-5.2 Pro (batch) offers the largest context window (400K tokens) versus 200K for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.1.

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  1. $30.00

    /M blended

  2. $28.88

    /M blended

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