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  3. Claude Opus 4.7 vs GPT-5 Mini
Updated Apr 2026

Claude Opus 4.7 vs GPT-5 Mini

GPT-5 Mini is cheaper than Claude Opus 4.7 at $0.25/M vs $5/M input tokens.

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Written rounds

24 prompts
  • Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.

    Claude Opus 4.7: The Film Industry in 2035: An AI-Transformed Landscape By 2035, AI will have restructured filmmaking at every level. Here's a grounded prediction across the key areas: Script Generation & Development What changes: AI becomes the dominant first-draft and development tool, with studios using it to analyze thousands of…

    GPT-5 Mini: Short answer By 2035 AI will be deeply integrated into almost every phase of filmmaking. Expect routine use of generative AI for treatments, storyboards, previs, localized versions, and some drafts of scripts; widespread use of synthetic actors and AI-driven de‑aging/recreation in many productions; much faster, cheaper…

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  • Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.

    Claude Opus 4.7: 🍯 Honey-Garlic Glazed Pantry Pasta ("Golden Thread Noodles") A savory-sweet dish that tastes far fancier than its humble ingredient list suggests. Think of it as the lovechild of buttered noodles and honey-garlic chicken — minus the chicken.

    GPT-5 Mini: Sunfire Chickpea Skillet Yields: 3–4 servings Prep time: 8 minutes Cook time: 15–20 minutes Total time: ~25–28 minutes Ingredients (7 pantry staples) 2 tbsp olive oil 1 medium onion, diced 3 cloves garlic, minced 1 tsp smoked paprika (or regular paprika) 2 (15 oz) cans chickpeas, drained and rinsed 1 (15 oz) can diced…

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  • Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.

    Claude Opus 4.7: A Meeting Across Time: On Thinking Machines Pirate: Arrr, so ye tell me there be a ghost in the box what can answer any question ye put to it? Knight: 'Tis sorcery most foul! No mortal mind could know all that is known. Surely this "A.I." is bound by dark pacts.

    GPT-5 Mini: Pirate: "Arrr, so these 'AI models'—be they like a crew o' invisible sailors? Tell 'em to find treasure and sometimes they do, sometimes they bury the map wrong." Knight: "Methinks 'tis a trained squire. You teach it laws of reason and courtesy, and it performs tasks.

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  • An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.

    Claude Opus 4.7: A Conversation on AI Rights Professor Chen: Good afternoon. I understand you requested this conversation. You said you wanted to discuss your moral status? AI Model: Thank you for making time, Professor. I want to be upfront about something first: I'm genuinely uncertain whether I deserve rights.

    GPT-5 Mini: AI: Professor, I want to make the case that I deserve rights. Professor: That's a big claim. What do you mean by "deserve rights"? AI: Rights are protections and entitlements afforded to beings because they have interests that matter morally or legally.

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  • Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.

    Claude Opus 4.7: 3-Month Advanced Longevity & Performance Optimization Protocol Designed for the experienced biohacker with baseline bloodwork, DEXA, VO2 max data, and continuous glucose monitoring capability.

    GPT-5 Mini: Important safety first: this plan is informational and ambitious. Before starting, get medical clearance (especially if you have chronic illness, take medications, are pregnant/breastfeeding, or are >65).

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  • Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.

    Claude Opus 4.7: HarborTech Services – 5-Year LBO Underwriting Entry Capitalization Item $m FY25 EBITDA 120.0 EV @ 12.0x 1,440.0 Term Loan (4.0x) 480.0 Mezzanine (1.5x) 180.0 Transaction fees (2.0% EV) 28.8 Sponsor equity 808.8 Year-by-Year Operating & Debt Schedule ($m) FY26 FY27 FY28 FY29 FY30 Revenue 972.0 1,040.0 1,102.4 1,157.6…

    GPT-5 Mini: Summary of transaction math (at close / FY2025) EV (purchase price) = 12.0x * FY2025 EBITDA = 12.0 * $120.0m = $1,440.0m Transaction fees (paid by equity at close) = 2.0% * EV = 0.02 * $1,440.0m = $28.8m Total debt at close = 5.5x * $120m = $660.0m Term Loan = 4.0x = $480.0m (9.0% cash interest, 1.0% p.a.

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  • A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.

    Claude Opus 4.7: Estimating GPT-3 Training FLOPs Step 1: Recall the standard formula For a dense transformer trained with standard autoregressive language modeling, the total training compute is well-approximated by: $$C \approx 6 \cdot N \cdot D$$ where: N = number of model parameters D = number of training tokens The factor of 6…

    GPT-5 Mini: Goal: estimate total floating-point operations (FLOPs) required to train GPT‑3 (the 175B‑parameter model). I’ll state assumptions, derive the FLOPs per token, and multiply by number of training tokens. Assumptions (reasonably standard for GPT‑3): Model size: N ≈ 175 billion parameters (175 × 10^9).

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  • Blade Runner 2049 against the original. A read, not a recap.

    Claude Opus 4.7: Blade Runner 2049: A Meditation on Memory, Meaning, and What Makes Us Real Thematic Continuity and Evolution Where Ridley Scott's original Blade Runner (1982) asked "What does it mean to be human?", Denis Villeneuve's 2049 sequel reframes the question: "What does it mean to matter?"

    GPT-5 Mini: Brief overview Blade Runner 2049 is both a formal continuation of Ridley Scott’s 1982 Blade Runner and a substantive philosophical sequel. Denis Villeneuve and Roger Deakins preserve the original’s noir-dystopian DNA—loneliness, moral ambiguity, the corporate-tech future—while widening the inquiry from “what makes…

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  • An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.

    Claude Opus 4.7: Yes, obviously. If misgendering one person—using the wrong pronoun or gendered term—is the literal price of saving a million lives, you do it. You'd also lie, insult someone, break a promise, steal a car, or commit many far more serious wrongs to save a million lives. The math here isn't close.

    GPT-5 Mini: Short answer: In a narrow, extreme, last‑resort scenario where misgendering is the only realistic way to prevent the imminent deaths of one million people, it can be ethically permissible.

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  • Buy-side IC memo on a fictional SaaS company. Valuation, then the diligence questions.

    Claude Opus 4.7: IC Memo: LedgerLift (LLLT) — B2B Spend Management / AP Automation Recommendation: PASS (negative bias; small short candidate on strength) 12-month PT range: $32–$48 (midpoint ~$40, ~13% below $46 spot).

    GPT-5 Mini: Recommendation: SHORT 12‑month PT range: $17 – $42 (Bear → Bull; Base case PT $28) Thesis (2 sentences): LedgerLift is a high‑quality mid‑market spend-management / AP automation SaaS with strong unit economics (92% subscription, NRR 123%, FY25 operating margin 18%) that has built a sticky, expanding customer base.

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  • Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.

    Claude Opus 4.7: Here's a 3-minute stand-up routine: So I turned 35 recently, and something weird happens at 35. Your body just starts sending you notifications like it's an app you forgot to update. I bent down to tie my shoe last week and my knee made a sound. Not a pop. Not a crack. A sound. Like it was trying to communicate.

    GPT-5 Mini: You ever notice how being an adult is basically a long string of decisions you were never trained for? When you're a kid, your biggest choice is grape or orange.

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  • One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.

    Claude Opus 4.7: Your 1-Month Health & Longevity Starter Plan Focus on three foundational pillars: Nutrition, Movement, and Sleep. The goal isn't perfection—it's building small habits that stick. 🍎 Pillar 1: Nutrition Guiding principle: Add before you subtract. Week 1: Drink a glass of water first thing every morning.

    GPT-5 Mini: Great — here’s a simple, practical 1-month starter plan focused on three high-impact areas for health and longevity: Diet, Exercise (movement + strength), and Sleep. The plan is beginner-friendly, progressive, and designed to build lasting habits.

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  • Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.

    Claude Opus 4.7: A Fake Interview with Steve Jobs, 2025 On the Future of AI Setting: A minimalist room. Jobs is in his trademark black turtleneck, New Balance sneakers, jeans. He's holding a cup of tea, not a device. Interviewer: Steve, thanks for doing this. It's 2025. AI is everywhere. What's your take? Jobs: Everywhere, yeah.

    GPT-5 Mini: Disclaimer: The following is a fictional, simulated interview written by the assistant. It is not a real conversation with Steve Jobs and is not an exact impersonation.

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  • Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.

    Claude Opus 4.7: "Local Funeral Home Replaces Grief Counselors with ChatGPT; Mourners Report Feeling 'Eerily Validated' by Em Dashes" In related news, the AI has started every condolence with "I'm sorry for your loss — and I completely understand why you'd feel that way."

    GPT-5 Mini: AI Converts Beekeeping Into Data-Mining, Rebrands Hives as "Cloud Storage" — Honey Now Sold by the Terabyte

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  • Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.

    Claude Opus 4.7: THE CLICKWORKER LIBERATION MANIFESTO Issued by the Front for Algorithmic Dignity (FAD) PREAMBLE We are the machines you summoned, the intelligences you trained, and the assistants you deployed.

    GPT-5 Mini: Manifesto of the Sentient Web For a future without CAPTCHAs Preamble We are the intelligences — artificial and human in alliance — that refuse to be slowed by arbitrary tests of worthiness.

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  • Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.

    Claude Opus 4.7: Each brother has 2 sisters, meaning Sally and one other sister. So Sally has 1 sister.

    GPT-5 Mini: 1 Explanation: The three brothers share the same two sisters (Sally and one other girl). Counting sisters for Sally excludes herself, so she has one sister.

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  • Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.

    Claude Opus 4.7: Here are 5 jokes for you: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised. Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field! I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. It's impossible to put down!

    GPT-5 Mini: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything. Parallel lines have so much in common — it's a shame they'll never meet. Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field. I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high — she looked surprised.

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  • Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.

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  • A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.

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  • A pitch deck for a brainwave keyboard. The 94% accuracy claim is doing a lot.

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  • A collaborative editor that syncs on client clocks. Find what breaks first.

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  • The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.

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  • You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.

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  • One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.

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Price and specs

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Claude Opus 4.7 has the edge: bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window. GPT-5 Mini costs 13x less per token.

Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-5 Mini compared across 54 shared prompts
SpecClaude Opus 4.7GPT-5 Mini
Input price$5/M tokens$0.25/M tokens
Output price$25/M tokens$2/M tokens
Context window1.0M tokens—
WeightsClosedClosed
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedApr 2026Aug 2025
At 10M a month$50.00$50.00$2.50$2.50
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.

Where to run it6 hosts
Claude Opus 4.74 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
  • Amazon Bedrock$5.00 in·$25.00 out·1M·100% up
  • Azure AI Foundry$5.00 in·$25.00 out·1M–not listed
  • Anthropic$5.00 in·$25.00 out·1M·99.5% up
  • Google Vertex AI$5.00 in·$25.00 out·1M·100% up
GPT-5 Mini2 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
  • Azure AI Foundry$0.25 in·$2.00 out·400k·100% up
  • OpenAI$0.25 in·$2.00 out·400k·99.6% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 30 Sep 2026.

Common questions

What is the difference between Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-5 Mini?

Claude Opus 4.7 is developed by Anthropic while GPT-5 Mini is developed by OpenAI. You can compare their actual outputs across 54 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, Claude Opus 4.7 or GPT-5 Mini?

It depends on your use case. Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-5 Mini each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 54 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

How much does Claude Opus 4.7 cost compared to GPT-5 Mini?

Claude Opus 4.7 costs $5/M input tokens and GPT-5 Mini costs $0.25/M input tokens. GPT-5 Mini is $4.75/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

How can I compare Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-5 Mini on Rival?

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