Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-5 Mini offers 168.8K more tokens in context window than Claude 3.7 Sonnet. Claude 3.7 Sonnet is $7.00 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3.7 Sonnet is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 3.7, released by Anthropic in February 2025, is a large language model from the Claude 3 family featuring hybrid reasoning with configurable extended thinking. It supports a 200K token context window, 64K maximum output tokens (128K in beta), and native image understanding. Sonnet 3.7 targets complex coding, mathematics, and scientific reasoning tasks where extended chain-of-thought processing provides meaningful improvements in output quality.
OpenAI
GPT-5 mini, released by OpenAI in August 2025, is a smaller variant from the GPT-5 family that inherits GPT-5's unified reasoning architecture and multimodal capabilities at a reduced inference cost. It targets high-volume production use cases requiring a balance of intelligence and response speed, offering GPT-5 capabilities for applications where full GPT-5 inference costs are a concern.
5 months newer

Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic
2025-02-24

GPT-5 Mini
OpenAI
2025-08
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
GPT-5 Mini
Context window and performance specifications
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
2024-10
Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic
AWS Bedrock
Google Cloud Vertex AI
GPT-5 Mini
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
GPT-5 Mini
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
GPT-5 Mini
OpenAI