GPT-5.1-Codex-Max vs Holo3-35B-A3B

Pick GPT-5.1-Codex-Max if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Holo3-35B-A3B only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

GPT-5.1-Codex-Max has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 81 versus 78. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

GPT-5.1-Codex-Max's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 86 against 77.8. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is OSWorld-Verified, 82% to 77.8%.

GPT-5.1-Codex-Max is also the more expensive model on tokens at $2.00 input / $8.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.25 input / $1.80 output per 1M tokens for Holo3-35B-A3B. That is roughly 4.4x on output cost alone. GPT-5.1-Codex-Max is the reasoning model in the pair, while Holo3-35B-A3B is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. GPT-5.1-Codex-Max gives you the larger context window at 400K, compared with 64K for Holo3-35B-A3B.