Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-5 Mini: API price and specs

GPT-5 Mini is 17% cheaper than Claude Sonnet 4.6 on input price.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is 25% cheaper than GPT-5 Mini on output price.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is 8% cheaper than GPT-5 Mini on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 has a 150% larger context than GPT-5 Mini.

Field	Claude Sonnet 4.6	GPT-5 Mini
Lowest input, per 1M	$0.15 +20%	$0.12
Median input, per 1M	$3.00 +1100%	$0.25
Lowest output, per 1M	$0.75	$1.00 +33.3%
Median output, per 1M	$15.00 +650%	$2.00
Lowest unit price	$0.001 / request	—
Cost of 1M in + 200k out	$0.30	$0.33 +8.3%
Context	1M	400K +60%
Max output	128K	128K
Providers	36	27 +25%
Regions	APAC, AU, EU, GLOBAL, JP, US	EU, GLOBAL, US
Accepts	application/pdf, file, image, image/gif, image/jpeg, image/png, image/webp, pdf, text	file, image, image/gif, image/jpeg, image/png, image/webp, pdf, text
Returns	text	text
Type	Text models	Text models
Free option	no	no
Cheapest provider	daoxe	openrouter

Your own workload: how many tokens the model gets (input) and gives back (output) - for example, in a month. The "Cost" row of the table above is recalculated for these numbers, for each model.

Computed from current offers each time the page opens; the best value of a row is bold, the percent is how far behind the best.

Providers selling both

abacus, aihubmix, aiml, azure, cometapi, cortecs, digitalocean, edenai, fastrouter, github-copilot, helicone, impossibl, jiekou, kilo, meganova, nearai, ofox, openrouter, orcarouter, perplexity-agent, poe, requesty, trustedrouter, vercel, zenmux

Frequently asked questions

Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 4.6 or GPT-5 Mini?

GPT-5 Mini is 17% cheaper than Claude Sonnet 4.6 on input price. Claude Sonnet 4.6 is 25% cheaper than GPT-5 Mini on output price. Claude Sonnet 4.6 is 8% cheaper than GPT-5 Mini on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Which has the larger context, Claude Sonnet 4.6 or GPT-5 Mini?

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 1M tokens; GPT-5 Mini: 400K tokens.

Where can I use both Claude Sonnet 4.6 and GPT-5 Mini?