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Best GPT-5 Pro alternatives

Users may seek alternatives to GPT-5 Pro because of its high output price of $120 per million tokens alongside unknown intelligence index and output speed. This list covers seven multimodal models from OpenAI and Anthropic that handle image, text, and file tasks with details on context, pricing, and performance.

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Grok 4.3

Multimodal · $2.50/1M

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

Intelligence: 43.9Output speed: 135 t/sOutput price: $2.50/1MContext: 1000K
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GPT-5 Codex

Multimodal · $10.00/1M

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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
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GPT-5.1-Codex

Multimodal · $10.00/1M

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

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

GPT Chat Latest shares GPT-5 Pro's 400000 context and multimodal strengths at a reduced $30 per million output price, with noted flexibility in multi-turn dialogue.

Output price: $30.00/1MContext: 400KType: ProprietaryProvider: OpenAI
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GPT-5.2 Pro

Multimodal · $168.00/1M

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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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GPT-5.1 matches GPT-5 Pro's 400000 context and multimodal image-text-file support at a lower $10 per million output price, with a reported intelligence index of 27.4.

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

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GPT-5.2-Codex is the strongest by intelligence index at 49 with 144.39 t/s speed and $14 per million output price.