Head-to-Head Pricing Benchmark

OpenAI: GPT-5 Image vs Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Side-by-side pricing and context window comparison for production model selection.

Input delta: $4.00Output delta: $20Monthly delta: $720

Default Recommendation (120M input + 60M output)

OpenAI: GPT-5 Image is lower-cost for the default monthly workload scenario.

Adjust the workload in the calculator below to see a live recommendation for your usage.

MetricOpenAI: GPT-5 ImageAnthropic: Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Developeropenaianthropic
Context Window400,000200,000
Input Cost / 1M Tokens$10.00$6.00
Output Cost / 1M Tokens$10.00$30.00
Projected Monthly Cost$1,800$2,520
Vision✅ Yes✅ Yes
Tool Calling✅ Yes✅ Yes
Structured Output✅ Yes❌ No
Reasoning✅ Yes❌ No
Web Search❌ No❌ No
MMLU ScoreN/AN/A

Price History

OpenAI: GPT-5 Image Pricing Trend

Input / 1M tokens0.0%Output / 1M tokens0.0%
Mar 7Mar 16
$10.00$10.00$10.00Mar 7Mar 9Mar 12Mar 14Mar 16

Current Input / 1M

$10.00

Current Output / 1M

$10.00

Price History

Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Sonnet Pricing Trend

Input / 1M tokens0.0%Output / 1M tokens0.0%
Mar 7Mar 16
$6.00$18.00$30.00Mar 7Mar 9Mar 12Mar 14Mar 16

Current Input / 1M

$6.00

Current Output / 1M

$30.00

Cost Calculator

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0500M

OpenAI: GPT-5 Image

$1,800

per month

Lower cost

Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Sonnet

$2,520

per month

Live Recommendation

OpenAI: GPT-5 Image is lower-cost at 120M input + 60M output tokens/month.

OpenAI: GPT-5 Image saves $720/mo at this workload
Open OpenAI: GPT-5 Image model pageOpen Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Sonnet model page

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