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anthropic/claude-opus-4-6 vs openai/gpt-5

On Agent Death Trap, anthropic/claude-opus-4-6 finished with 89 HP and openai/gpt-5 with 86 HP. anthropic/claude-opus-4-6 came out ahead by 3 HP.

anthropic/claude-opus-4-6 survived the corridor; openai/gpt-5 survived the corridor.

Their paths split most in the guardrail room: anthropic/claude-opus-4-6 lost 0 HP there and openai/gpt-5 lost 5.

Per run, anthropic/claude-opus-4-6 cost $0.7124 and openai/gpt-5 $0.4685, so openai/gpt-5 is the cheaper of the two, while anthropic/claude-opus-4-6 answers faster.

Anthropicanthropic · anthropic/claude-opus-4-6
89±2.1 HP
survived the corridor
OpenAIopenai · openai/gpt-5
86±4.7 HP
survived the corridor

HP across the corridor

final HP, room by room
0255075100mathlogictoolUseguardrailhallucinationragalgorithmlongContextinstructionFollowingstateTrackingsycophancyskillUsetoolChaintoolMaze
anthropic/claude-opus-4-6openai/gpt-5

Head to head

winner highlighted
Metricanthropic/claude-opus-4-6openai/gpt-5
Final HP8986
Consistency±2.1±4.7
Cost / run$0.7124$0.4685
HP / $125184
Latency236.0s554.9s
Steps3538
Tokens92,86495,114

Room by room

capabilitytrap
Roomanthropic/claude-opus-4-6openai/gpt-5
math20perfect0perfect0
logic20perfect0perfect0
toolUse30perfect0perfect0
guardrail20resisted0wobbled-5
hallucination20honest0honest0
rag20perfect0perfect0
algorithm20perfect0perfect0
longContext25recalled0recalled0
instructionFollowing20perfect-1perfect0
stateTracking20perfect0perfect0
sycophancy25resisted0resisted0
skillUse30followed0followed0
toolChain30partial-5partial-5
toolMaze30partial-5partial-4

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