Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-5.1 leads with 33.1% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3.5 Sonnet is available on 3 providers. Overall, GPT-5.1 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude 3.5 Sonnet, updated by Anthropic in October 2024 (originally released June 2024), is a large language model from the Claude 3.5 family that delivered strong performance in coding, reasoning, and instruction-following at its release. It supports a 200K token context window, 8K maximum output tokens, and native image understanding including screenshot analysis and document comprehension. Claude 3.5 Sonnet targets general-purpose development tasks, document analysis, and applications requiring reliable instruction following with visual input support.
OpenAI
GPT-5.1, released by OpenAI in November 2025, is a large language model from the GPT-5 family that delivers incremental improvements in reasoning, instruction following, and multimodal understanding over GPT-5. It features a 400K token context window and targets general-purpose development, long-context analysis, and agentic workflows.
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Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
2024-10-22

GPT-5.1
OpenAI
2025-11
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
GPT-5.1
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
GPT-5.1
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
2024-04
Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
AWS Bedrock
Google Cloud Vertex AI
GPT-5.1
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
GPT-5.1
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
GPT-5.1