Head-to-head

Real trade-offs between competing models.

• Claude Opus 4.7 vs GPT-5 — which frontier model wins?

  Opus 4.7 is $15/$75, GPT-5 is $10/$30. GPT-5 wins on sticker price, Opus leads SWE-bench. Here's when each is the right choice.

• Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Claude Sonnet 4.6

  Gemini's 2M window and $1.25 input vs Sonnet's 4.6 tool-use polish. Which standard-tier model is actually right for your app?

• GPT-4o mini vs Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

  The two cheapest usable LLMs in 2026. Flash-Lite is 33% cheaper, but GPT-4o mini wins on instruction following. Which to pick.

• DeepSeek V3.1 vs Claude Haiku 4.5

  Open-weights MoE at $0.27/$1.10 vs Anthropic's smallest at $1/$5. Which is the better value tier default?

• o3 vs o4-mini — when does thinking pay?

  o3 is $10/$40 and rules hard reasoning. o4-mini is $1.10/$4.40 and still crushes most math. Here's when you actually need o3.