Model comparison
Claude Opus 4.5 vs GPT-5.5 Instant
Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 42.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher in 8 categories and GPT-5.5 Instant in 1 category; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.5 leads 42.5 to 24.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 86.1% for Claude Opus 4.5 and 68.1% for GPT-5.5 Instant.
Side by side
| Claude Opus 4.5 | GPT-5.5 Instant | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 50.5 | 42.5 |
| Released | 2025-11-01 | 2026-05-05 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 200K | — |
| Max output | 64K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $5 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $25 | — |
| Results tracked | 69 | 27 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Opus 4.5 leads
Claude Opus 4.5: 55.4 (#21), GPT-5.5 Instant: 43.7 (#73)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1504 | 1433 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 76.7% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 76.8% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1493 | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 70.7% | — |
| SciCode | — | 48.6% |
| GSO | 26.5% | — |
| WeirdML | 63.7% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 1,025 | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.77 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Opus 4.5: 47.2 (#11), GPT-5.5 Instant: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 63.1% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 77.5% | — |
| GDPval | 45.5% | — |
| Remote Labor Index | 3.8% | — |
| τ²-bench Airline | 84% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 24.7% | — |
| τ²-bench Retail | 79.6% | — |
| τ²-bench Telecom | 92.3% | — |
| Cybench | 82% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 54.8% | — |
| OSWorld | 66.3% | — |
| BALROG | 43.5% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1180 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 75% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 4,967 | — |
Reasoning Claude Opus 4.5 leads
Claude Opus 4.5: 42.5 (#43), GPT-5.5 Instant: 24.2 (#149)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 12% | 12% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1476 | 1426 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 150.1 | 142.48 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 37.6% | — |
| SimpleBench | 62% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 80.2% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 52.5% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 80% | — |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| EnigmaEval | 11.9% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 14.3% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 22% | — |
| DTBench | 89.9% | — |
| LMCA | 44.5% | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.7 | — |
Math Claude Opus 4.5 leads
Claude Opus 4.5: 38.5 (#85), GPT-5.5 Instant: 26.1 (#241)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 34.4% | 26.3% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 4.9% | 2.4% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 86.1% | 68.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1463 | 1420 |
| ProofBench | 36% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 20.7% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 4.2% | — |
Knowledge Claude Opus 4.5 leads
Claude Opus 4.5: 56.4 (#38), GPT-5.5 Instant: 48.9 (#68)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 86% | 82.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1488 | 1409 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 25.2% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 45.7% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 10.9% | — |
Multimodal GPT-5.5 Instant leads
Claude Opus 4.5: 31.1 (#99), GPT-5.5 Instant: 39.3 (#48)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Document | 1462 | 1403 |
| LMArena Vision | — | 1250 |
| GeoBench | 75% | — |
| VPCT | 40% | — |
| Furniture Assembly | 28.3% | — |
Multilingual Claude Opus 4.5 leads
Claude Opus 4.5: 54.5 (#45), GPT-5.5 Instant: 53.0 (#76)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1438 | 1417 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1470 | 1457 |
| LMArena French | 1471 | 1428 |
| LMArena German | 1449 | 1410 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1415 | 1408 |
| LMArena Korean | 1424 | 1393 |
| LMArena Russian | 1448 | 1430 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1455 | 1430 |
Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.5 leads
Claude Opus 4.5: 77.7 (#20), GPT-5.5 Instant: 74.4 (#94)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1478 | 1407 |
Long Context Claude Opus 4.5 leads
Claude Opus 4.5: 46.4 (#21), GPT-5.5 Instant: 43.4 (#92)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1480 | 1422 |
| CL-bench | 21.1% | — |
Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.5 leads
Claude Opus 4.5: 68.2 (#28), GPT-5.5 Instant: 62.0 (#81)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1451 | 1419 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1445 | 1420 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1466 | 1434 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1687 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Opus 4.5 better than GPT-5.5 Instant?
Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 42.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude Opus 4.5 or GPT-5.5 Instant better for coding?
Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.4 versus 43.7 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.5 Instant share?
24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.5 Instant has 27.