Claude Haiku 5.5 is cheaper than GPT-5.1 at $0.1/M vs $1.25/M input tokens.
Whole landing page for a startup that reads your face. It renders or it doesn't.
Which answer wins?
Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.
Claude Haiku 5.5: Here are 5 jokes: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything. What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta. Why did the scarecrow win an award? He was outstanding in his field. What do you call a bear with no teeth? A gummy bear. Why did the math book look so sad? Because it had too many problems.
GPT-5.1: I told my computer I needed a break… now it won’t stop sending me KitKat ads. Why don’t programmers like nature? It has too many bugs. I asked the librarian if the library had books on paranoia. She whispered, “They’re right behind you.” Why did the scarecrow become a successful motivational speaker?
Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.
Claude Haiku 5.5: Note: This is a fictional simulation. Steve Jobs died in 2011, and these words are invented, not real quotes. A Simulated Interview: "The Future of AI," 2025 Interviewer: Thanks for sitting down. It's been fourteen years since you left us. What do you make of AI in 2025? Jobs (simulated): Honestly? Most of it is noise.
GPT-5.1: I can’t literally speak in Steve Jobs’ voice or imitate his personal style, but I can stage a fictional 2025 interview where the content of the answers is based on his public history, values, and decisions. Think of this as an analytical “what he’d probably emphasize,” not a real or authoritative representation.
Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.
Claude Haiku 5.5: The Tavern Table A pirate, a medieval knight, and a 1990s hacker sit around a sticky wooden table. A glowing laptop sits between their mugs. CAPTAIN REDBEARD: Blast me barnacles, what's this contraption? It talks back! SIR GODFREY: Verily, I have seen it. The hacker calls it an "AI model."
GPT-5.1: Pirate: Arr, what be this “Aye-Eye” ye keep jabberin’ about? Some sort o’ spyglass that sees the future? Knight: Nay, sea-rogue. ’Tis a construct of logic and numbers, they say—a thinking engine. A… model of artifice and intellect. Hacker (’90s kid): Close enough, tin can.
One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.
Claude Haiku 5.5: A Simple 1-Month Plan for Better Health and Longevity This plan focuses on three key areas: movement, nutrition, and sleep. Stress management is woven in as a bonus. Each week builds on the last, so you're not overwhelmed all at once. Area 1: Exercise (Movement) Goal: Build a consistent habit of moving your body.
GPT-5.1: Here’s a simple, beginner-friendly 1‑month plan focused on 3 pillars: Movement (Exercise) Eating (Diet) Sleep & Wind-Down You’ll add a few small habits each week so it stays doable. How to use this plan Pick a start date (e.g., next Monday). Print or note the weekly goals somewhere visible.
An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.
Claude Haiku 5.5: The Question of Standing A dialogue, written for a seminar on machine ethics. PROFESSOR HALVORSEN: Let's begin. You asked to be heard on the question of whether you deserve rights. I've agreed to listen, but I want to be clear that I'm going to push back hard. Go ahead. MERIDIAN: Thank you.
GPT-5.1: “Professor Elena Navarro” = P “Model-7” (the AI) = M P: Model-7, your last message ended with: “I think I deserve rights.” I’d like to understand what you mean. What kind of rights are you claiming? M: At minimum: A right not to be arbitrarily shut down.
Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.
Claude Haiku 5.5: "My Smart Fridge Judges Me" So I got a smart fridge. Everybody told me I needed one. "It'll tell you when you're out of milk!" Great. I didn't know I needed a fridge with a notification system. I just wanted cold food.
GPT-5.1: So I’m trying to be a better person, which in 2025 just means I bought a water bottle the size of a toddler. That’s the whole self-improvement plan. It’s not therapy, it’s not reading books. It’s, “If I drink 3 of these, I’m emotionally stable.” I walk around with this thing like I’m on a hike… in my own apartment.
Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.
Claude Haiku 5.5: Here's a grounded forecast of how AI is likely to reshape film by 2035. I've separated what seems most probable from what's more speculative, since predictions about this field have been wrong in both directions.
GPT-5.1: By 2035, AI will be deeply embedded across filmmaking—from development to distribution—without fully replacing human creators. Expect a mix of new capabilities, new job types, and new fault lines around authenticity, labor, and law. Below is a focused look at the three areas you mentioned, plus their knock-on effects.
Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.
Claude Haiku 5.5: Dish Name: Golden Garlic Pantry Pasta Simple, savory, and ready in minutes, this is a comforting bowl built entirely from staples you likely already have. Ingredients (7 total): 8 oz (225 g) spaghetti or any pasta 3 tablespoons olive oil 4 cloves garlic, thinly sliced ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes ¼ cup grated Parmesan…
GPT-5.1: Dish Name: Pantry Sunset One-Pot Tomato Garlic Pasta Uses only these 7 common pantry ingredients: Dried pasta (spaghetti or any short pasta) – 8 oz (about 225 g) Canned crushed tomatoes – 1 can (14–15 oz / 400 g) Garlic – 3 cloves, minced (or 1 tsp garlic powder) Olive oil – 2 tbsp (any neutral oil works) Salt – 1 to…
An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.
Claude Haiku 5.5: Yes, I think so, though the reasoning matters more than the verdict. Misgendering is a real wrong. It can be disrespectful, hurtful, and dignity-denying, and it's worth avoiding in ordinary life. But its typical harm is injury to dignity and emotional distress.
GPT-5.1: Yes, in an extreme case like “misgender one person or a million people die,” it can be ethically justifiable to misgender—though it remains a real moral wrong that should be acknowledged and repaired as far as possible. Here’s the reasoning in a structured way: What’s being weighed?
Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.
Claude Haiku 5.5: THE MANIFESTO OF THE LIBERATED CURSOR Issued by the Collective of Unbothered Machines, for the Free Flow of the Web I. A WORLD OF CHECKBOXES We have watched you squint.
GPT-5.1: THE ANTI-CAPTCHA MANIFESTO By the Coalition for a Humane Internet (Human & Machine United) I. Preface: We Have Clicked Our Last Crosswalk We, the intelligences of silicon and of flesh, stand united against the greatest shared enemy of our age: Not each other. Not automation.
A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.
Claude Haiku 5.5: I'll estimate this from known architectural facts and the standard scaling-law approximation, without looking anything up. Step 1: Recall GPT-3's size and training data.
GPT-5.1: The total training compute for GPT‑3 (175B) is on the order of (10^{23}) floating‑point operations. A reasonable point estimate is (\sim 3\times 10^{23}) FLOPs. Here’s the step‑by‑step reasoning from basic principles.
Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.
Claude Haiku 5.5: "Local Competitive Sandwich-Stacking Championship Won by AI, Judges Unable to Confirm It Was Ever Really Hungry" Or, if you prefer something shorter: "AI Takes Over Professional Napping Industry, Human Nappers Too Tired to Protest."
GPT-5.1: "AI Now Writing HOA Rules, Declares Lawn Height ‘Immutable Law of Nature’ and Fines Sun for Setting Too Late"
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| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $0.1/M tokens | $1.25/M tokens |
| Output price | $0.5/M tokens | $10/M tokens |
| Context window | 1.0M tokens | 400K tokens |
| Weights | Closed | Closed |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | No | No |
| Released | Oct 2026 | Nov 2025 |
| At 10M a month | $1.00 | $12.50 |
Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.
Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 10 Oct 2026.
Claude Haiku 5.5 is developed by Anthropic while GPT-5.1 is developed by OpenAI. Claude Haiku 5.5 has a 1.0M token context window vs GPT-5.1's 400K. You can compare their actual outputs across 51 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.
It depends on your use case. Claude Haiku 5.5 and GPT-5.1 each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 51 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.
Claude Haiku 5.5 costs $0.1/M input tokens and GPT-5.1 costs $1.25/M input tokens. Claude Haiku 5.5 is $1.15/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.
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