Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-5.1 leads with 8.9% higher average benchmark score. Claude Sonnet 4 is available on 3 providers. Overall, GPT-5.1 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4, released by Anthropic in May 2025, is a large language model from the Claude 4 family that delivers a balance of performance and efficiency for coding, reasoning, and analytical tasks. It features a 200K token context window (extendable to 1M tokens in beta), 64K maximum output tokens, native image understanding, and extended thinking support. Sonnet 4 targets development workflows, document analysis, and applications that benefit from the performance characteristics of the Claude 4 generation.
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 Sonnet 4
Anthropic
2025-05-14

GPT-5.1
OpenAI
2025-11
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks
Claude Sonnet 4
GPT-5.1
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories
Claude Sonnet 4
GPT-5.1
Claude Sonnet 4
2025-01
Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
AWS Bedrock
Google Cloud Vertex AI
GPT-5.1
Claude Sonnet 4
GPT-5.1
Claude Sonnet 4
GPT-5.1