LLM Comparisons

Every comparison has a named winner. No "it depends" without an answer.

Claude Opus 4.6 vs GPT-5.2

The two highest-scoring frontier models. When is Opus worth 3× the price?

Same maker, real capability gap. Is the $100/month Max plan worth it over the $20 Pro?

Writing quality and instruction-following vs raw capability, bigger context, and a cheaper API.

Claude's writing precision vs Gemini's 1M token context, lower price, and Google integration.

The two biggest labs, head-to-head. Ecosystem and benchmarks vs context window and Workspace.

Speed + multimodal + free tier vs reasoning depth and lower per-token cost. Budget tier.

Apache 2.0 vs Llama license. Intelligence vs context window and speed. Open source showdown.

DeepSeek V3.2 costs 6× less than GPT-5.2. What do you actually lose — and gain?