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Model comparison

Claude 2 vs GPT-4o

GPT-4o is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.6 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

Claude 2 Anthropic

25.0

Rank #346 Reported

GPT-4o OpenAI

28.6

Rank #324 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2 scores higher in 1 category and GPT-4o in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude 2 leads 21.7 to 9.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 11.7% for Claude 2 and 53.3% for GPT-4o.

Side by side

Claude 2GPT-4o
ProviderAnthropicOpenAI
Noometry Index25.028.6
Released2023-07-112024-05-13
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—128K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$2.50
Output $ / M tokens—$10
Results tracked872

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude 2: —, GPT-4o: 24.8 (#328)

BenchmarkClaude 2GPT-4o
HumanEval+61.6%87.2%
SWE-bench Verified—31%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—21.6%
Aider Polyglot—45.3%
GSO—0%
WeirdML—25.1%
BigCodeBench Instruct—51.1%
LiveBench Coding—51.4%
LMArena Coding—1297
BigCodeBench Complete—61.1%
CadEval—26%
MBPP+—72.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 2: —, GPT-4o: 21.0 (#141)

BenchmarkClaude 2GPT-4o
GDPval—9.9%
TheAgentCompany—8.6%
Cybench—12.5%
BALROG—32.3%
LMArena Search—1006
METR Time Horizons—40.8%

Reasoning Claude 2 leads

Claude 2: 21.7 (#216), GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343)

BenchmarkClaude 2GPT-4o
DTBench51.9%64.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index120.13128.97
ARC-AGI-2—0%
SimpleBench—17.8%
ARC-AGI-1—4.5%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—13%
EnigmaEval—0.8%
LiveBench Reasoning—55.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1281
LiveBench Data Analysis—60.9%
LMCA—16.6%
ForecastBench—57.7
LiveBench—55.3%

Math GPT-4o leads

Claude 2: 9.3 (#320), GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312)

BenchmarkClaude 2GPT-4o
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%6.4%
MATH Level 511.7%53.3%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—0.4%
Omni-MATH—29.3%
LiveBench Math—49.5%
LMArena Math—1285
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.3%

Knowledge GPT-4o leads

Claude 2: 16.9 (#287), GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242)

BenchmarkClaude 2GPT-4o
GPQA Diamond34.7%49.2%
MMLU78.5%88.1%
Humanity's Last Exam—2.7%
SimpleQA Verified—26%
MMLU-Pro—71.3%
Confabulations—15.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.6%
GPQA (HELM)—52%
LMArena Expert—1250
TriviaQA87.5%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 2: —, GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91)

BenchmarkClaude 2GPT-4o
LMArena Vision—1137
Video-MME—71.9%
GeoBench—71%
VPCT—40%
ScienceQA—88.5%

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 2: —, GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186)

BenchmarkClaude 2GPT-4o
LMArena Non-English—1283
LMArena Chinese—1277
LMArena French—1304
LMArena German—1282
LMArena Japanese—1257
LMArena Korean—1234
LMArena Russian—1286
LMArena Spanish—1292

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 2: —, GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207)

BenchmarkClaude 2GPT-4o
LiveBench Instruction Following—68.6%
IFEval—81.7%
LMArena Instruction Following—1278

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 2: —, GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179)

BenchmarkClaude 2GPT-4o
Fiction.LiveBench—66.7%
LMArena Longer Query—1289

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 2: —, GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166)

BenchmarkClaude 2GPT-4o
LMArena Text—1300
LMArena Creative Writing—1292
Short-Story Creative Writing—81.8%
WildBench—82.8%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1302
LiveBench Language—47.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 2 better than GPT-4o?

GPT-4o is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.6 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude 2 and GPT-4o share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2 has 8 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4o has 72.

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