Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs GPT-5

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 32 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

GPT-5 OpenAI

50.9

Rank #45 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 32 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5 in 10 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5 leads 55.0 to 14.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.7% for Claude 3 Opus and 91.4% for GPT-5.

Side by side

Claude 3 Opus and GPT-5 specifications
Claude 3 OpusGPT-5
ProviderAnthropicOpenAI
Noometry Index29.550.9
Released2024-02-292025-08-07
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—400K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.25
Output $ / M tokens—$10
Results tracked4669

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), GPT-5: 50.3 (#47)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-5
WeirdML19.2%60.7%
LMArena Coding12641436
SWE-bench Verified—73.6%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—65%
Aider Polyglot—88%
LMArena WebDev—1418
SciCode—42.9%
GSO—6.9%
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%—
ALE-Bench—1,162
AlgoTune—1.67
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), GPT-5: 33.1 (#56)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-5
METR Time Horizons29.5%69.6%
Terminal-Bench—49.6%
GDPval—34.8%
Remote Labor Index—1.7%
Cybench10%—
DeepResearch Bench—49.6%
BALROG—32.8%
LMArena Search—1133

Reasoning GPT-5 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), GPT-5: 38.3 (#64)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-5
SimpleBench23.5%56.7%
Chess Puzzles5%37%
EnigmaEval0.8%10.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts12451416
DTBench61.6%90.7%
LMCA17%40%
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91150
ForecastBench58.461.4
ARC-AGI-2—9.9%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—72.7%
ARC-AGI-1—65.7%
CritPt—12.6%
EBR-Bench—12.7%
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—23%
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math GPT-5 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), GPT-5: 55.0 (#44)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%91.4%
LMArena Math12731407
MATH Level 537.5%98.1%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—55.4%
FrontierMath Tier 4—22%
ProofBench—18%
Omni-MATH—64.7%
LiveBench Math43.6%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—32.4%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—12.5%

Knowledge GPT-5 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), GPT-5: 56.6 (#43)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-5
GPQA Diamond47.2%86.2%
SimpleQA Verified12.6%50.1%
Confabulations22.7%10.3%
LMArena Expert12231419
Humanity's Last Exam—25.3%
MMLU-Pro—86.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—14.7%
GPQA (HELM)—79.2%
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal GPT-5 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), GPT-5: 46.8 (#13)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-5
LMArena Vision10231232
GeoBench—81%
VPCT—66%

Multilingual GPT-5 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), GPT-5: 51.4 (#110)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-5
LMArena Non-English12581397
LMArena Chinese12481422
LMArena French12751410
LMArena German12581416
LMArena Japanese12041409
LMArena Korean11871360
LMArena Russian12801406
LMArena Spanish12461399

Instruction Following GPT-5 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), GPT-5: 73.8 (#113)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-5
LMArena Instruction Following12481388
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—
IFEval—87.5%

Long Context GPT-5 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), GPT-5: 69.5 (#2)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-5
LMArena Longer Query12591399
Fiction.LiveBench—97.2%

Writing & Preference GPT-5 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), GPT-5: 63.4 (#65)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-5
LMArena Text12621406
LMArena Creative Writing12351365
LMArena Multi-Turn12751426
Short-Story Creative Writing—86%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1627
WildBench—85.7%
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than GPT-5?

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or GPT-5 better for coding?

GPT-5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and GPT-5 share?

32 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5 has 69.

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