You compare what can be used by most engineers. Most engineers are not going to spend that insane price of Opus. It's extremely high compared to all other models, so even if it is slightly better, it's a non-starter for engineering workloads.
I believe Opus starts at $20 a month, similar to GPT5 if you want more than just cursory usage.
Or am I missing something?
Claude Opus 4.1
Most intelligent model for complex tasks
Input $15 / MTok
Output $75 / MTok
Prompt caching
Write $18.75 / MTok
Read $1.50 / MTokIt would be useful to be able to easily compare what it costs across the big providers: Gemini, Grok, Claude, ChatGPT.
If you want to use Opus in claude code, you've got to get the $100/month plan - or pay API prices. And agentic coding uses a lot of tokens.