Model comparison

Claude Opus 4 vs GPT-6 Sol

GPT-6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.8 to 43.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 28 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4 Anthropic

43.1

Rank #100 Confirmed

GPT-6 Sol OpenAI

61.8

Rank #12 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4 scores higher in 1 category and GPT-6 Sol in 9 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-6 Sol leads 74.0 to 27.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 8.6% for Claude Opus 4 and 89.6% for GPT-6 Sol.
  • GPT-6 Sol is cheaper at $2 / $10 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $75 for Claude Opus 4.
  • GPT-6 Sol accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 200K.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4 and GPT-6 Sol specifications
Claude Opus 4GPT-6 Sol
ProviderAnthropicOpenAI
Noometry Index43.161.8
Released2025-05-222026-09-22
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window200K1.05M
Max output32K128K
Input $ / M tokens$15$2
Output $ / M tokens$75$10
Results tracked5645

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Category by category

Coding GPT-6 Sol leads

Claude Opus 4: 47.2 (#62), GPT-6 Sol: 60.1 (#11)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4GPT-6 Sol
LMArena Coding14421447
SWE-bench Verified70.7%—
DeepSWE—68.8%
FrontierCode—49.3%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)67.6%—
Aider Polyglot72%—
LMArena WebDev—1688
SciCode—57.6%
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML43.7%—
ALE-Bench—2,462
AlgoTune1.33—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-6 Sol leads

Claude Opus 4: 34.8 (#42), GPT-6 Sol: 37.2 (#36)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4GPT-6 Sol
APEX-Agents—54.3%
Cybench38%—
DeepResearch Bench46.8%—
GDP.pdf—26.4%
LMArena Search1127—
METR Time Horizons63.9%—
Vending-Bench 2—14,428

Reasoning GPT-6 Sol leads

Claude Opus 4: 27.3 (#121), GPT-6 Sol: 74.0 (#9)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4GPT-6 Sol
ARC-AGI-28.6%89.6%
ARC-AGI-135.7%95.5%
CritPt0.3%30.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts13991418
DTBench81.6%97.3%
LMCA37.4%59.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index142.67162.72
SimpleBench58.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark74.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)—90.1%
EnigmaEval5.6%—
EBR-Bench—53.3%
Mystery Game Puzzles—56%
ForecastBench61.1—

Math GPT-6 Sol leads

Claude Opus 4: 42.0 (#86), GPT-6 Sol: 87.2 (#7)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4GPT-6 Sol
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202564.4%100%
LMArena Math13901402
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—89.8%
FrontierMath Tier 4—90%
ProofBench—83%
Omni-MATH61.6%—
MATH Level 585%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge GPT-6 Sol leads

Claude Opus 4: 44.0 (#88), GPT-6 Sol: 64.8 (#15)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4GPT-6 Sol
GPQA Diamond76.3%94.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%6.5%
LMArena Expert13861439
Humanity's Last Exam10.7%—
SimpleQA Verified—60.7%
MMLU-Pro87.5%—
Confabulations15.9%—
GPQA (HELM)70.8%—

Multimodal GPT-6 Sol leads

Claude Opus 4: 31.5 (#106), GPT-6 Sol: 47.6 (#10)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4GPT-6 Sol
LMArena Vision11921245
GeoBench49%—
VPCT38%—
Blueprint-Bench 2—36.9%
Furniture Assembly—58.3%

Multilingual GPT-6 Sol leads

Claude Opus 4: 48.8 (#138), GPT-6 Sol: 50.5 (#118)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4GPT-6 Sol
LMArena Non-English13621385
LMArena Chinese13861405
LMArena French13721410
LMArena German13911390
LMArena Japanese13311385
LMArena Korean13211341
LMArena Russian13921401
LMArena Spanish13891384

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 77.1 (#28), GPT-6 Sol: 74.5 (#94)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4GPT-6 Sol
LMArena Instruction Following14061412
IFEval91.8%—

Long Context GPT-6 Sol leads

Claude Opus 4: 39.6 (#172), GPT-6 Sol: 43.1 (#108)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4GPT-6 Sol
LMArena Longer Query14221411
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—

Writing & Preference GPT-6 Sol leads

Claude Opus 4: 61.2 (#89), GPT-6 Sol: 71.9 (#18)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4GPT-6 Sol
LMArena Text13771395
LMArena Creative Writing13871378
EQ-Bench Creative Writing15802125
LMArena Multi-Turn13961412
Short-Story Creative Writing83.6%—
WildBench85.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4 better than GPT-6 Sol?

GPT-6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.8 to 43.1 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4 or GPT-6 Sol?

GPT-6 Sol is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4 lists at $15 and $75.

Is Claude Opus 4 or GPT-6 Sol better for coding?

GPT-6 Sol scores higher on coding benchmarks: 60.1 versus 47.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-6 Sol does, with 1.05M tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4 and GPT-6 Sol share?

28 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4 has 56 scored results on Noometry and GPT-6 Sol has 45.

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