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GPT-5.3-CodexvsGPT-6 Astra

GPT-6 Astra leads 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. GPT-5.3-Codex is 3.8x cheaper per token. GPT-6 Astra has the larger context window (1.1M tokens).

Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.

Shared benchmarks
0 – 2
GPT-6 Astra leads
Cheaper per token
GPT-5.3-Codex
3.8x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
GPT-6 Astra
1.1M tokens
Providers
OpenAI
same provider
GPT-5.3-Codex
OpenAI · released 2026-02-05
textvision
Context
400K
Max out
128K
Input /1M
$1.75 ↗
Output /1M
$14 ↗
Cached /1M
$0.175
Scores
9 · 2 core
GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI · released 2026-09-03
textvision
Context
1.1M
Max out
128K
Input /1M
$10 ↗
Output /1M
$50 ↗
Cached /1M
$1
Scores
39 · 9 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkGPT-5.3-CodexGPT-6 AstraΔEdge
Reported by both · 2
Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs)5940.12 ↗15514.7 ↗-9574.6GPT-6 Astra
WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle)79.3% ↗93.6% ↗-14.3 ptGPT-6 Astra
Only GPT-5.3-Codex reports · 7
Cybersecurity Capture The Flag Challenges77.6% ↗not reported——
GDPval (wins or ties)70.9% ↗not reported——
OSWorld-Verified64.7% ↗not reported——
SWE-Bench Pro (Public)56.8% ↗not reported——
SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run)74.8% ↗epoch runnot reported——
SWE-Lancer IC Diamond81.4% ↗not reported——
Terminal-Bench 2.077.3% ↗not reported——
Only GPT-6 Astra reports · 31
GPQA Diamondnot reported96% ↗——
LMArena Elonot reported1477.1 ↗——
APEX-Agents (Mercor)not reported64.7% ↗——
AutomationBench 1.0.6not reported41.4% ↗——
BALROG (BALROG)not reported68.3% ↗——
Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI run)not reported72% ↗epoch run——
DeepSWE v1.1 (Datacurve)not reported74.1% ↗——
EBR-bench (Epoch AI run)not reported76.2% ↗epoch run——
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)not reported97.6% ↗epoch run——
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)not reported93.7% ↗epoch run——
FrontierSWE V2 (Proximal Labs)not reported65.5% ↗——
Furniture Assembly (Epoch AI run)not reported80% ↗epoch run——
GSO Opt@1 (GSO)not reported77.5% ↗——
LiveBench Agentic Coding (LiveBench)not reported57.3% ↗——
LiveBench Coding (LiveBench)not reported80.4% ↗——
LiveBench Data Analysis (LiveBench)not reported83% ↗——
LiveBench Instruction Following (LiveBench)not reported75.6% ↗——
LiveBench Language (LiveBench)not reported89.4% ↗——
LiveBench Mathematics (LiveBench)not reported96.8% ↗——
LiveBench Reasoning (LiveBench)not reported92.7% ↗——
LMArena Agent (LMArena)not reported0.1227 ↗——
LMArena Vision (LMArena)not reported1284.3 ↗——
LMArena WebDev (LMArena)not reported1787.7 ↗——
MirrorCode (Epoch AI run)not reported46.7% ↗epoch run——
Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run)not reported84% ↗epoch run——
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)not reported100% ↗epoch run——
SAGE (Vals AI)not reported46.4% ↗——
SimpleBench (SimpleBench)not reported86.5% ↗——
SimpleQA Verifiednot reported75.6% ↗epoch run——
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals AI)not reported59.6% ↗——
Terminal-Bench Science 0.1not reported64.6% ↗——
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is GPT-5.3-Codex minus GPT-6 Astra in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

Side by side

SpecGPT-5.3-CodexGPT-6 AstraEdge
Context window400K tokens1.1M tokensGPT-6 Astra
Max output128K tokens128K tokensTie
Input price / 1M$1.75 ↗$10 ↗GPT-5.3-Codex
Output price / 1M$14 ↗$50 ↗GPT-5.3-Codex
Cached input / 1M$0.175 ↗$1 ↗GPT-5.3-Codex
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$15.75$60GPT-5.3-Codex
Modalitiestext · visiontext · visionTie
Released2026-02-052026-09-03—
Cited benchmark scores939—
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