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Claude 4 Opus vs GPT-4o

Side-by-side intelligence, speed, price, benchmarks, strengths and weaknesses.

Anthropic

Claude 4 Opus

ProprietaryFeb 2026

Anthropic’s 2026 flagship — best-in-class on code and long-horizon agents.

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OpenAI

GPT-4o

ProprietaryMay 2024

OpenAI’s vision-and-voice flagship from 2024 — still a great default.

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Head to head

Spec
Claude 4 Opus
GPT-4o
Intelligence index↑ better
Winner81
72
Speed↑ better
50 tok/s
Winner110 tok/s
Time to first token↓ better
1.4 s
Winner0.4 s
Context window↑ better
Winner500k
128k
Max output↑ better
Winner32k
16k
Input price↓ better
$8.00 / 1M tokens
Winner$2.50 / 1M tokens
Output price↓ better
$40.00 / 1M tokens
Winner$10.00 / 1M tokens
Blended price↓ better
$16.00 / 1M tokens
Winner$4.38 / 1M tokens
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Input modalities
text, image
text, image, audio
Output modalities
text
text, audio

Benchmark showdown

MMLU
Claude 4 Opus
90.0
GPT-4o
88.7
MMLU Pro
Claude 4 Opus
79.5
GPT-4o
73.3
GPQA
Claude 4 Opus
65.0
GPT-4o
53.1
MATH
Claude 4 Opus
88.0
GPT-4o
76.6
HumanEval
Claude 4 Opus
95.8
GPT-4o
90.2

Strengths, weaknesses and best-for

Claude 4 Opus
Strengths
  • Top HumanEval
  • Long, coherent outputs
  • 500k context
Weaknesses
  • Slower than Sonnet
  • Premium price
Best for
  • Long-context coding
  • Tool-using agents
  • Document understanding
GPT-4o
Strengths
  • Strong multimodal
  • Voice-native
  • Mature ecosystem
Weaknesses
  • Weaker than GPT-5.5 on reasoning
  • Smaller context vs newer models
Best for
  • General-purpose chat
  • Voice apps
  • Vision tasks

Quick verdict

  • Pick Claude 4 Opus if you want it smarter and longer context.
  • Pick GPT-4o if you want it faster and cheaper.

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