Model comparison
Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs GPT-5 Pro
GPT-5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.4 to 44.1 on the Noometry Index. Claude Sonnet 4.5 costs 6.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4.5 scores higher in 1 category and GPT-5 Pro in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5 Pro leads 48.5 to 32.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3): 23.9% for Claude Sonnet 4.5 and 55.8% for GPT-5 Pro.
- Claude Sonnet 4.5 is cheaper at $3 / $15 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $120 for GPT-5 Pro.
- GPT-5 Pro accepts more context: 400K tokens versus 200K.
Side by side
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 | GPT-5 Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 44.1 | 46.4 |
| Released | 2025-09-29 | 2025-10-06 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 200K | 400K |
| Max output | 64K | 272K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $3 | $15 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $15 | $120 |
| Results tracked | 73 | 12 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads
Claude Sonnet 4.5: 47.3 (#61), GPT-5 Pro: 44.0 (#80)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | GPT-5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 47.7% | 60.4% |
| AlgoTune | 1.52 | 1.31 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 71.3% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 71.4% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1393 | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 67% | — |
| SciCode | 44.7% | — |
| GSO | 14.7% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1489 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 796.15 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 4.5: 38.3 (#32), GPT-5 Pro: —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | GPT-5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 46.5% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 73.2% | — |
| GDPval | 42.5% | — |
| Remote Labor Index | 2.1% | — |
| τ²-bench Airline | 72% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 25.3% | — |
| τ²-bench Retail | 72.4% | — |
| τ²-bench Telecom | 84.9% | — |
| Cybench | 60% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 52.6% | — |
| OSWorld | 62.9% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1159 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 67.4% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 3,839 | — |
Reasoning GPT-5 Pro leads
Claude Sonnet 4.5: 26.9 (#125), GPT-5 Pro: 38.9 (#62)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | GPT-5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 13.6% | 18.3% |
| SimpleBench | 54.3% | 61.6% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 57.9% | 76.8% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 63.7% | 70.2% |
| EnigmaEval | 6% | 18.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 146.84 | 150.28 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 37.3% | — |
| CritPt | 1.1% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 12% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 2.4% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1462 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 17% | — |
| DTBench | 83.2% | — |
| LMCA | 38.8% | — |
| ForecastBench | 61.9 | — |
Math GPT-5 Pro leads
Claude Sonnet 4.5: 32.3 (#216), GPT-5 Pro: 48.5 (#63)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | GPT-5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 23.9% | 55.8% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 2.4% | 19.5% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 4.2% | 14.6% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 77.8% | — |
| ProofBench | 19% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 55.3% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1449 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 97.7% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 15.2% | — |
Knowledge GPT-5 Pro leads
Claude Sonnet 4.5: 48.4 (#76), GPT-5 Pro: 56.7 (#42)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | GPT-5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Humanity's Last Exam | 13.7% | 31.6% |
| GPQA Diamond | 82.3% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 30.7% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 86.9% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 12% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 68.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1482 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 4.5: 34.8 (#89), GPT-5 Pro: —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | GPT-5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| VPCT | 39.8% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1450 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 4.5: 53.4 (#69), GPT-5 Pro: —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | GPT-5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1425 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1459 | — |
| LMArena French | 1458 | — |
| LMArena German | 1427 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1390 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1403 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1437 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1457 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 4.5: 75.0 (#78), GPT-5 Pro: —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | GPT-5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 85% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1459 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 4.5: 45.2 (#46), GPT-5 Pro: —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | GPT-5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1476 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 4.5: 66.5 (#34), GPT-5 Pro: —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | GPT-5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1439 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1442 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1678 | — |
| WildBench | 85.4% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1465 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Sonnet 4.5 better than GPT-5 Pro?
GPT-5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.4 to 44.1 on the Noometry Index. Claude Sonnet 4.5 costs 6.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 4.5 or GPT-5 Pro?
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is cheaper. It lists at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens; GPT-5 Pro lists at $15 and $120.
Is Claude Sonnet 4.5 or GPT-5 Pro better for coding?
Claude Sonnet 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.3 versus 44.0 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
GPT-5 Pro does, with 400K tokens against 200K.
How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4.5 and GPT-5 Pro share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4.5 has 73 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5 Pro has 12.