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Best GPT-5.1-Codex-Max alternatives

Users may seek alternatives to GPT-5.1-Codex-Max because of its high output price of $10 per 1M tokens, high resource demands for large contexts, and restriction to only text and image modalities. This list covers seven other multimodal models with details on intelligence, speed, pricing, context, and capabilities drawn from the provided facts.

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

Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent expands context to 2M tokens and adds multi-agent coordination for text-image-file tasks at $6 per 1M, introducing potential latency from agent overhead compared to the single-model base.

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

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

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

Frequently asked questions

GPT-5.2 has the highest listed intelligence index at 46.6 while matching context size and adding file support.