OpenAI: GPT-5 Pro vs Vertex claude-3-5-sonnet

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OpenAI: GPT-5 Pro

Premium

Description

GPT-5 Pro is OpenAI’s most advanced model, offering major improvements in reasoning, code quality, and user experience. It is optimized for complex tasks that require step-by-step reasoning, instruction following, and accuracy in high-stakes use cases. It supports test-time routing features and advanced prompt understanding, including user-specified intent like "think hard about this." Improvements include reductions in hallucination, sycophancy, and better performance in coding, writing, and health-related tasks.

Strengths

  • Multimodal understanding with text and image support
  • Large context window (400k tokens)

Best For

Image and document understanding

Vertex claude-3-5-sonnet

Premium

Description

Anthropic's previous most intelligent model. High level of intelligence and capability. Excells in coding.

Strengths

  • Multimodal understanding with text and image support
  • Large context window (200k tokens)
  • Strong coding performance

Best For

Software development and debugging

FeatureOpenAI: GPT-5 ProVertex claude-3-5-sonnet
ProviderOpenRouterRequesty
Context Length400,000 tokens200,000 tokens
Input Price$15.00/M$3.00/M
Output Price$120.00/M$15.00/M
Vision SupportYesYes
PremiumYesYes
Capabilities
TextVision
VisionCachingTools+1 more