Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs GPT-5.4 nano

GPT-5.4 nano is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.9 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 27 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.3

Rank #300 Confirmed

GPT-5.4 nano OpenAI

41.9

Rank #111 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.4 nano in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.4 nano leads 40.7 to 13.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.7% for Claude 3 Opus and 87.8% for GPT-5.4 nano.

Side by side

Claude 3 Opus and GPT-5.4 nano specifications
Claude 3 OpusGPT-5.4 nano
ProviderAnthropicOpenAI
Noometry Index29.341.9
Released2024-02-292026-03-17
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—400K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.20
Output $ / M tokens—$1.25
Results tracked4640

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.4 nano leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.4 (#261), GPT-5.4 nano: 43.1 (#82)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-5.4 nano
WeirdML19.2%49.2%
LMArena Coding12641404
SciCode—46.9%
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%—
ALE-Bench—1,005
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.3 (#110), GPT-5.4 nano: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-5.4 nano
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning GPT-5.4 nano leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.2 (#318), GPT-5.4 nano: 23.8 (#159)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-5.4 nano
Chess Puzzles5%30%
LMArena Hard Prompts12461380
DTBench61.6%80.3%
LMCA17%36.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91145.78
ForecastBench58.457.3
ARC-AGI-2—5.7%
SimpleBench23.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—39.7%
ARC-AGI-1—51.5%
CritPt—9.3%
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—9%
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math GPT-5.4 nano leads

Claude 3 Opus: 13.9 (#293), GPT-5.4 nano: 40.7 (#76)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-5.4 nano
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%87.8%
LMArena Math12731406
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—44.9%
FrontierMath Tier 4—12.2%
ProofBench—5%
LiveBench Math43.6%—
MATH Level 537.5%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—25.9%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—6.3%

Knowledge GPT-5.4 nano leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#262), GPT-5.4 nano: 41.8 (#94)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-5.4 nano
GPQA Diamond47.2%78.5%
SimpleQA Verified12.6%11.7%
LMArena Expert12231397
Confabulations22.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—3.1%
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal GPT-5.4 nano leads

Claude 3 Opus: 26.6 (#112), GPT-5.4 nano: 36.0 (#73)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-5.4 nano
LMArena Vision10231196

Multilingual GPT-5.4 nano leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.6 (#202), GPT-5.4 nano: 48.8 (#136)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-5.4 nano
LMArena Non-English12581359
LMArena Chinese12481391
LMArena French12741396
LMArena German12581368
LMArena Japanese12041342
LMArena Korean11871321
LMArena Russian12801363
LMArena Spanish12461368

Instruction Following GPT-5.4 nano leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.3 (#223), GPT-5.4 nano: 72.1 (#139)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-5.4 nano
LMArena Instruction Following12481362
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—

Long Context GPT-5.4 nano leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#197), GPT-5.4 nano: 41.6 (#131)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-5.4 nano
LMArena Longer Query12591365

Writing & Preference GPT-5.4 nano leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.4 (#208), GPT-5.4 nano: 55.9 (#137)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-5.4 nano
LMArena Text12621372
LMArena Creative Writing12351313
LMArena Multi-Turn12751382
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than GPT-5.4 nano?

GPT-5.4 nano is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.9 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or GPT-5.4 nano better for coding?

GPT-5.4 nano scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.1 versus 32.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and GPT-5.4 nano share?

27 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.4 nano has 40.

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