Model comparison

Claude 2 vs GPT-5.5

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Claude 2 Anthropic

25.0

Rank #346 Reported

GPT-5.5 OpenAI

63.4

Rank #9 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2 scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.5 in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.5 leads 81.7 to 9.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 2.5% for Claude 2 and 100% for GPT-5.5.

Side by side

Claude 2 and GPT-5.5 specifications
Claude 2GPT-5.5
ProviderAnthropicOpenAI
Noometry Index25.063.4
Released2023-07-112026-04-23
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$5
Output $ / M tokens—$30
Results tracked871

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude 2: —, GPT-5.5: 58.2 (#17)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2GPT-5.5
SWE-bench Verified—80.6%
DeepSWE—67%
FrontierCode—43%
LMArena WebDev—1513
SciCode—56.1%
GSO—40.2%
WeirdML—84.9%
LMArena Coding—1494
MirrorCode—10%
ALE-Bench—1,943
HumanEval+61.6%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 2: —, GPT-5.5: 50.7 (#6)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2GPT-5.5
Terminal-Bench—84.7%
APEX-Agents—55.1%
OSWorld 2.0—13%
Remote Labor Index—6.3%
τ²-bench Banking—44.6%
DeepResearch Bench—54%
PostTrainBench—27.2%
ExploitBench—47.4%
GBAEval—53.2%
GDP.pdf—26%
LMArena Search—1242
Vending-Bench 2—7,524

Reasoning GPT-5.5 leads

Claude 2: 21.7 (#216), GPT-5.5: 72.8 (#11)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2GPT-5.5
DTBench51.9%96%
Epoch Capabilities Index120.13159.1
ARC-AGI-2—85%
SimpleBench—69%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—88.8%
NYT Connections (extended)—96.2%
ARC-AGI-1—95%
CritPt—27.1%
Chess Puzzles—54%
EBR-Bench—34.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1489
Mystery Game Puzzles—56%
LMCA—54.3%
Surface Evolver Bench—88.1%
Bench to the Future 3—0.14
ForecastBench—60.6

Math GPT-5.5 leads

Claude 2: 9.3 (#320), GPT-5.5: 81.7 (#11)

Knowledge GPT-5.5 leads

Claude 2: 16.9 (#287), GPT-5.5: 64.4 (#17)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2GPT-5.5
GPQA Diamond34.7%94%
SimpleQA Verified—63%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.3%
LMArena Expert—1508
MMLU78.5%—
TriviaQA87.5%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 2: —, GPT-5.5: 46.9 (#12)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2GPT-5.5
LMArena Vision—1297
Blueprint-Bench 2—36.2%
Furniture Assembly—44.2%
LMArena Document—1486

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 2: —, GPT-5.5: 56.4 (#20)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2GPT-5.5
LMArena Non-English—1467
LMArena Chinese—1533
LMArena French—1486
LMArena German—1480
LMArena Japanese—1498
LMArena Korean—1460
LMArena Russian—1473
LMArena Spanish—1468

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 2: —, GPT-5.5: 77.5 (#18)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2GPT-5.5
LMArena Instruction Following—1479

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 2: —, GPT-5.5: 48.3 (#12)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2GPT-5.5
CL-bench Life—22.2%
LMArena Longer Query—1484

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 2: —, GPT-5.5: 72.7 (#13)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2GPT-5.5
LMArena Text—1472
LMArena Creative Writing—1455
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1844
EQ-Bench 4—1315
LMArena Multi-Turn—1476

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 2 better than GPT-5.5?

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude 2 and GPT-5.5 share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2 has 8 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.5 has 71.

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