Model comparison

Claude Opus 4 vs GPT-4.5

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 36.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 35 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4 Anthropic

42.9

Rank #93 Confirmed

GPT-4.5 OpenAI

36.9

Rank #200 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 35 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4 scores higher in 7 categories and GPT-4.5 in 3 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4 leads 27.4 to 14.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 72% for Claude Opus 4 and 44.9% for GPT-4.5.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4 and GPT-4.5 specifications
Claude Opus 4GPT-4.5
ProviderAnthropicOpenAI
Noometry Index42.936.9
Released2025-05-222025-02-27
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked5642

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 47.8 (#55), GPT-4.5: 41.8 (#102)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4GPT-4.5
Aider Polyglot72%44.9%
WeirdML43.7%39.4%
LMArena Coding14421397
SWE-bench Verified70.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)67.6%—
GSO6.9%—
LiveBench Coding—75.2%
AlgoTune1.33—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 34.5 (#39), GPT-4.5: 27.6 (#92)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4GPT-4.5
Cybench38%17.5%
DeepResearch Bench46.8%—
LMArena Search1127—
METR Time Horizons63.9%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 27.4 (#104), GPT-4.5: 14.1 (#320)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4GPT-4.5
ARC-AGI-28.6%0.8%
SimpleBench58.8%34.5%
ARC-AGI-135.7%10.3%
EnigmaEval5.6%3.2%
LMArena Hard Prompts13991404
Epoch Capabilities Index142.67136.74
ForecastBench61.161.7
Kagi LLM Benchmark74.3%—
CritPt0.3%—
LiveBench Reasoning—71.1%
DTBench81.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—64.3%
LMCA37.4%—
LiveBench—69%

Math Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 40.2 (#80), GPT-4.5: 31.0 (#200)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4GPT-4.5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202564.4%37.8%
LMArena Math13911412
MATH Level 585%78.6%
Omni-MATH61.6%—
LiveBench Math—69.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 43.9 (#82), GPT-4.5: 32.4 (#205)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4GPT-4.5
GPQA Diamond76.3%68.7%
Humanity's Last Exam10.7%5.4%
Confabulations15.9%13.6%
LMArena Expert13841394
MMLU-Pro87.5%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
GPQA (HELM)70.8%—

Multimodal GPT-4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4: 30.9 (#101), GPT-4.5: 37.0 (#68)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4GPT-4.5
LMArena Vision11921195
VPCT38%45%
GeoBench49%—

Multilingual GPT-4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4: 49.0 (#133), GPT-4.5: 52.7 (#78)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4GPT-4.5
LMArena Non-English13621413
LMArena Chinese13861421
LMArena French13701417
LMArena German13911457
LMArena Japanese13321416
LMArena Korean13181392
LMArena Russian13921419
LMArena Spanish1388—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 77.3 (#26), GPT-4.5: 72.8 (#129)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4GPT-4.5
LMArena Instruction Following14061404
LiveBench Instruction Following—72.3%
IFEval91.8%—

Long Context Too close to call

Claude Opus 4: 39.5 (#167), GPT-4.5: 40.4 (#150)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4GPT-4.5
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%63.9%
LMArena Longer Query14221406

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 61.4 (#85), GPT-4.5: 57.1 (#129)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4GPT-4.5
LMArena Text13771417
LMArena Creative Writing13861394
Short-Story Creative Writing83.6%75.6%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing15801258
LMArena Multi-Turn13961444
WildBench85.2%—
LiveBench Language—61.5%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4 better than GPT-4.5?

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 36.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4 or GPT-4.5 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.8 versus 41.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4 and GPT-4.5 share?

35 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4 has 56 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.5 has 42.

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