Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs GPT-5.5

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 28 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

GPT-5.5 OpenAI

63.4

Rank #9 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.5 in 10 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.5 leads 81.7 to 14.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.7% for Claude 3 Opus and 100% for GPT-5.5.

Side by side

Claude 3 Opus and GPT-5.5 specifications
Claude 3 OpusGPT-5.5
ProviderAnthropicOpenAI
Noometry Index29.563.4
Released2024-02-292026-04-23
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$5
Output $ / M tokens—$30
Results tracked4671

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.5 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), GPT-5.5: 58.2 (#17)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-5.5
WeirdML19.2%84.9%
LMArena Coding12641494
SWE-bench Verified—80.6%
DeepSWE—67%
FrontierCode—43%
LMArena WebDev—1513
SciCode—56.1%
GSO—40.2%
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
MirrorCode—10%
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%—
ALE-Bench—1,943
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.5 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), GPT-5.5: 50.7 (#6)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-5.5
Terminal-Bench—84.7%
APEX-Agents—55.1%
OSWorld 2.0—13%
Remote Labor Index—6.3%
τ²-bench Banking—44.6%
Cybench10%—
DeepResearch Bench—54%
PostTrainBench—27.2%
ExploitBench—47.4%
GBAEval—53.2%
GDP.pdf—26%
LMArena Search—1242
METR Time Horizons29.5%—
Vending-Bench 2—7,524

Reasoning GPT-5.5 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), GPT-5.5: 72.8 (#11)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-5.5
SimpleBench23.5%69%
Chess Puzzles5%54%
LMArena Hard Prompts12451489
DTBench61.6%96%
LMCA17%54.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91159.1
ForecastBench58.460.6
ARC-AGI-2—85%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—88.8%
NYT Connections (extended)—96.2%
ARC-AGI-1—95%
CritPt—27.1%
EnigmaEval0.8%—
EBR-Bench—34.3%
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—56%
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
Surface Evolver Bench—88.1%
Bench to the Future 3—0.14
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math GPT-5.5 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), GPT-5.5: 81.7 (#11)

Knowledge GPT-5.5 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), GPT-5.5: 64.4 (#17)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-5.5
GPQA Diamond47.2%94%
SimpleQA Verified12.6%63%
LMArena Expert12231508
Confabulations22.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.3%
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal GPT-5.5 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), GPT-5.5: 46.9 (#12)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-5.5
LMArena Vision10231297
Blueprint-Bench 2—36.2%
Furniture Assembly—44.2%
LMArena Document—1486

Multilingual GPT-5.5 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), GPT-5.5: 56.4 (#20)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-5.5
LMArena Non-English12581467
LMArena Chinese12481533
LMArena French12751486
LMArena German12581480
LMArena Japanese12041498
LMArena Korean11871460
LMArena Russian12801473
LMArena Spanish12461468

Instruction Following GPT-5.5 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), GPT-5.5: 77.5 (#18)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-5.5
LMArena Instruction Following12481479
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—

Long Context GPT-5.5 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), GPT-5.5: 48.3 (#12)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-5.5
LMArena Longer Query12591484
CL-bench Life—22.2%

Writing & Preference GPT-5.5 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), GPT-5.5: 72.7 (#13)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-5.5
LMArena Text12621472
LMArena Creative Writing12351455
LMArena Multi-Turn12751476
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1844
EQ-Bench 4—1315
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than GPT-5.5?

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or GPT-5.5 better for coding?

GPT-5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 58.2 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and GPT-5.5 share?

28 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.5 has 71.

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