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GPT-5.5 vs Claude 4 Opus

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

OpenAI

GPT-5.5

ProprietaryMar 2026

OpenAI’s 2026 flagship — strongest at reasoning, coding and tool use.

Open docs
Anthropic

Claude 4 Opus

ProprietaryFeb 2026

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

Open docs

Head to head

Spec
GPT-5.5
Claude 4 Opus
Intelligence index↑ better
Winner82
81
Speed↑ better
Winner95 tok/s
50 tok/s
Time to first token↓ better
Winner0.42 s
1.4 s
Context window↑ better
400k
Winner500k
Max output↑ better
16k
Winner32k
Input price↓ better
Winner$5.00 / 1M tokens
$8.00 / 1M tokens
Output price↓ better
Winner$15.00 / 1M tokens
$40.00 / 1M tokens
Blended price↓ better
Winner$7.50 / 1M tokens
$16.00 / 1M tokens
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Input modalities
text, image
text, image
Output modalities
text
text

Benchmark showdown

MMLU
GPT-5.5
90.2
Claude 4 Opus
90.0
MMLU Pro
GPT-5.5
78.0
Claude 4 Opus
79.5
GPQA
GPT-5.5
62.5
Claude 4 Opus
65.0
MATH
GPT-5.5
89.1
Claude 4 Opus
88.0
HumanEval
GPT-5.5
93.0
Claude 4 Opus
95.8

Strengths, weaknesses and best-for

GPT-5.5
Strengths
  • Best-in-class reasoning
  • Huge 400k context
  • Strong tool use and agents
Weaknesses
  • Expensive vs Sonnet for non-reasoning tasks
  • Higher latency than gpt-5.5-mini
Best for
  • Agentic workflows
  • Complex coding
  • Hard math & research
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

Quick verdict

  • Pick GPT-5.5 if you want it smarter, faster and cheaper.
  • Pick Claude 4 Opus if you want it longer context.

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