# Claude Sonnet 4 vs GPT-5.4

> GPT-5.4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.4 to 40.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-sonnet-4-vs-gpt-5-4
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 40

## Summary

- They share 40 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.4 in 10 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.4 leads 61.8 to 22.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 5.9% for Claude Sonnet 4 and 74% for GPT-5.4.
- GPT-5.4 is cheaper at $2.50 / $15 per million input/output tokens, against $3 / $15 for Claude Sonnet 4.
- GPT-5.4 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 200K.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Sonnet 4 | GPT-5.4 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 40.8 | 59.4 |
| Rank | 145 | 16 |
| Context | 200K | 1.05M |
| Input $/M | $3 | $2.50 |
| Output $/M | $15 | $15 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Claude Sonnet 4: 43.5 (#88)
- GPT-5.4: 52.6 (#33)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | GPT-5.4 |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 40% | 56.6% |
| GSO | 4.9% | 31.4% |
| WeirdML | 46.1% | 77.7% |
| LMArena Coding | 1414 | 1497 |
| ALE-Bench | 655.35 | 1,607 |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 76.9% |
| DeepSWE | — | 51.8% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 64.9% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 61.3% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1465 |
| MirrorCode | — | 15.6% |
| AlgoTune | — | 1.85 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude Sonnet 4: 38.5 (#31)
- GPT-5.4: 46.5 (#13)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | GPT-5.4 |
|---|---|---|
| DeepResearch Bench | 46.6% | 35.1% |
| METR Time Horizons | 62% | 74.3% |
| Terminal-Bench | — | 81.8% |
| APEX-Agents | — | 52.4% |
| TheAgentCompany | 33.1% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | — | 39.4% |
| Cybench | 35% | — |
| OSWorld | 43.9% | — |
| PostTrainBench | — | 19% |
| GBAEval | — | 45.1% |
| LMArena Search | — | 1197 |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 6,144 |

## Reasoning

- Claude Sonnet 4: 22.9 (#187)
- GPT-5.4: 61.8 (#19)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | GPT-5.4 |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 5.9% | 74% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 73% | 63.8% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 40% | 93.7% |
| CritPt | 0.3% | 23.4% |
| EnigmaEval | 3.1% | 16% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1372 | 1485 |
| DTBench | 77.1% | 94.4% |
| LMCA | 29% | 52% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.69 | 156.81 |
| ForecastBench | 60.2 | 59.5 |
| SimpleBench | 45.5% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 91.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 44% |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 80% |
| EBR-Bench | — | 25.4% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 37% |

## Math

- Claude Sonnet 4: 43.3 (#80)
- GPT-5.4: 73.5 (#19)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | GPT-5.4 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 71.1% | 97.8% |
| LMArena Math | 1375 | 1488 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.1% | 47.6% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | 27.1% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 78.6% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 49% |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 83.1% |
| ProofBench | — | 56% |
| Omni-MATH | 60.2% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 84.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude Sonnet 4: 41.8 (#108)
- GPT-5.4: 65.3 (#14)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | GPT-5.4 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 79.2% | 93.3% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 7.8% | 36.2% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 10.3% | 7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1372 | 1507 |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 45.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | 84.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 13.2% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 70.6% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude Sonnet 4: 26.2 (#121)
- GPT-5.4: 43.7 (#20)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | GPT-5.4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1191 | 1303 |
| GeoBench | 37% | — |
| VPCT | 34% | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | — | 27.1% |
| Furniture Assembly | — | 37.5% |
| LMArena Document | — | 1471 |
| MindCube | 44.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude Sonnet 4: 46.7 (#156)
- GPT-5.4: 56.2 (#23)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | GPT-5.4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1333 | 1465 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1350 | 1519 |
| LMArena French | 1363 | 1493 |
| LMArena German | 1331 | 1472 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1302 | 1485 |
| LMArena Korean | 1291 | 1448 |
| LMArena Russian | 1355 | 1480 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1357 | 1454 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Sonnet 4: 71.7 (#145)
- GPT-5.4: 77.1 (#27)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | GPT-5.4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1376 | 1469 |
| IFEval | 84% | — |

## Long Context

- Claude Sonnet 4: 33.7 (#259)
- GPT-5.4: 50.3 (#8)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | GPT-5.4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1398 | 1473 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 46.9% | — |
| CL-bench | — | 27.9% |
| CL-bench Life | — | 21.7% |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Sonnet 4: 57.1 (#132)
- GPT-5.4: 71.9 (#17)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | GPT-5.4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1351 | 1469 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1345 | 1439 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1483 | 1840 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1376 | 1482 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 81.4% | — |
| WildBench | 83.8% | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 1272 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Sonnet 4 better than GPT-5.4?

GPT-5.4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.4 to 40.8 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 4 or GPT-5.4?

GPT-5.4 is cheaper. It lists at $2.50 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens; Claude Sonnet 4 lists at $3 and $15.

### Is Claude Sonnet 4 or GPT-5.4 better for coding?

GPT-5.4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.6 versus 43.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.4 does, with 1.05M tokens against 200K.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4 and GPT-5.4 share?

40 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4 has 58 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.4 has 68.