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Claude 4 Opus vs OpenAI o1

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.

Open docs
OpenAI

OpenAI o1

ProprietaryDec 2024

Long chain-of-thought reasoning — unbeatable on hard math and code.

Open docs

Head to head

Spec
Claude 4 Opus
OpenAI o1
Intelligence index↑ better
Winner81
76
Speed↑ better
Winner50 tok/s
32 tok/s
Time to first token↓ better
Winner1.4 s
12 s
Context window↑ better
Winner500k
200k
Max output↑ better
32k
Winner100k
Input price↓ better
Winner$8.00 / 1M tokens
$15.00 / 1M tokens
Output price↓ better
Winner$40.00 / 1M tokens
$60.00 / 1M tokens
Blended price↓ better
Winner$16.00 / 1M tokens
$26.25 / 1M tokens
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Input modalities
text, image
text, image
Output modalities
text
text

Benchmark showdown

MMLU
Claude 4 Opus
90.0
OpenAI o1
91.8
MMLU Pro
Claude 4 Opus
79.5
OpenAI o1
80.0
GPQA
Claude 4 Opus
65.0
OpenAI o1
78.0
MATH
Claude 4 Opus
88.0
OpenAI o1
94.8
HumanEval
Claude 4 Opus
95.8
OpenAI o1
92.4

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
OpenAI o1
Strengths
  • Tops MATH and GPQA leaderboards
  • Self-checks its work
Weaknesses
  • Very slow
  • Very expensive
  • Overkill for simple tasks
Best for
  • Research problems
  • Olympiad-level math
  • Algorithm design

Quick verdict

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

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