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Best Claude Opus 4.6 alternatives

Users may seek alternatives to Claude Opus 4.6 due to its slower response times on complex queries and more conservative stance on borderline topics. This list covers six multimodal models offering varied trade-offs in intelligence, speed, price, and context size.

Multimodal model with 1M-token context for complex text and image tasks.

Intelligence: 43.9Output speed: 135 t/sOutput price: $2.50/1MContext: 1000K

OpenAI's multimodal model for large-scale text and image tasks.

Intelligence: 44.6Output speed: 150 t/sOutput price: $10.00/1MContext: 400K

Google's fast multimodal model for efficient text, image, and video tasks.

Intelligence: 33.5Output speed: 310 t/sOutput price: $1.50/1MContext: 1049K

Multi-agent multimodal model for massive context tasks

Output price: $6.00/1MContext: 2000KType: ProprietaryProvider: xAI

OpenAI's closed multimodal model for large-scale text and image tasks.

Intelligence: 43.1Output speed: 178 t/sOutput price: $10.00/1MContext: 400K

OpenAI's multimodal model for large-scale text, image and file tasks.

Output price: $30.00/1MContext: 400KType: ProprietaryProvider: OpenAI

Multimodal model handling images, text, and files over vast contexts.

Output price: $168.00/1MContext: 400KType: ProprietaryProvider: OpenAI
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GPT-5.1

Multimodal · $10.00/1M

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OpenAI's multimodal model for large-scale image, text, and file processing.

Intelligence: 27.4Output speed: 116 t/sOutput price: $10.00/1MContext: 400K

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Claude Opus 4.8 offers the highest intelligence index at 61.4 among the listed options.