Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs GPT-4o

Claude 3 Opus and GPT-4o score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.5 vs 28.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 45 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

GPT-4o OpenAI

28.6

Rank #324 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 45 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 4 categories and GPT-4o in 6 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Claude 3 Opus leads 32.9 to 24.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 37.5% for Claude 3 Opus and 53.3% for GPT-4o.

Side by side

Claude 3 Opus and GPT-4o specifications
Claude 3 OpusGPT-4o
ProviderAnthropicOpenAI
Noometry Index29.528.6
Released2024-02-292024-05-13
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—128K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$2.50
Output $ / M tokens—$10
Results tracked4672

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), GPT-4o: 24.8 (#328)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-4o
WeirdML19.2%25.1%
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%51.1%
LiveBench Coding38.6%51.4%
LMArena Coding12641297
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%61.1%
HumanEval+77.4%87.2%
MBPP+73.3%72.2%
SWE-bench Verified—31%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—21.6%
Aider Polyglot—45.3%
GSO—0%
CadEval—26%

Agentic & Tool Use Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), GPT-4o: 21.0 (#141)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-4o
Cybench10%12.5%
METR Time Horizons29.5%40.8%
GDPval—9.9%
TheAgentCompany—8.6%
BALROG—32.3%
LMArena Search—1006

Reasoning Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-4o
SimpleBench23.5%17.8%
Chess Puzzles5%13%
EnigmaEval0.8%0.8%
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%55.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts12451281
DTBench61.6%64.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%60.9%
LMCA17%16.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91128.97
ForecastBench58.457.7
LiveBench49.2%55.3%
ARC-AGI-2—0%
ARC-AGI-1—4.5%
CritPt—0%
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-4o
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%6.4%
LiveBench Math43.6%49.5%
LMArena Math12731285
MATH Level 537.5%53.3%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—0.4%
Omni-MATH—29.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.3%

Knowledge GPT-4o leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-4o
GPQA Diamond47.2%49.2%
SimpleQA Verified12.6%26%
Confabulations22.7%15.3%
LMArena Expert12231250
MMLU84.6%88.1%
Humanity's Last Exam—2.7%
MMLU-Pro—71.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.6%
GPQA (HELM)—52%

Multimodal GPT-4o leads

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-4o
LMArena Vision10231137
Video-MME—71.9%
GeoBench—71%
VPCT—40%
ScienceQA—88.5%

Multilingual GPT-4o leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-4o
LMArena Non-English12581283
LMArena Chinese12481277
LMArena French12751304
LMArena German12581282
LMArena Japanese12041257
LMArena Korean11871234
LMArena Russian12801286
LMArena Spanish12461292

Instruction Following GPT-4o leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-4o
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%68.6%
LMArena Instruction Following12481278
IFEval—81.7%

Long Context GPT-4o leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-4o
LMArena Longer Query12591289
Fiction.LiveBench—66.7%

Writing & Preference GPT-4o leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-4o
LMArena Text12621300
LMArena Creative Writing12351292
LMArena Multi-Turn12751302
LiveBench Language50.4%47.6%
Short-Story Creative Writing—81.8%
WildBench—82.8%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than GPT-4o?

Claude 3 Opus and GPT-4o score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.5 vs 28.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Claude 3 Opus or GPT-4o better for coding?

Claude 3 Opus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 24.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and GPT-4o share?

45 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4o has 72.

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