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Claude Opus 4.8vsGPT-5.5 Pro
GPT-5.5 Pro leads 3 of 5 shared benchmarks. Claude Opus 4.8 is 7x cheaper per token. GPT-5.5 Pro has the larger context window (1.1M tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
2 – 3
GPT-5.5 Pro leads
Cheaper per token
Claude Opus 4.8
7x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
GPT-5.5 Pro
1.1M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 94.2446%
Anthropic · OpenAI
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic · released 2026-05-28
textvision
GPT-5.5 Pro
OpenAI · released 2026-04-23
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
5 shared · 11 only Claude Opus 4.8 · 3 only GPT-5.5 Pro| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | GPT-5.5 Pro | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 5 | ||||
| Humanity's Last Exam (no tools) | 49.8% ↗ | 43.1% ↗ | +6.7 pt | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| BrowseComp | 84.3% ↗ | 90.1% ↗ | -5.8 pt | GPT-5.5 Pro |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 56.1% ↗epoch | 78% ↗epoch | -21.9 pt | GPT-5.5 Pro |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 80% ↗epoch | 87.7% ↗epoch | -7.7 pt | GPT-5.5 Pro |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | 57.9% ↗ | 57.2% ↗ | +0.7 pt | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| Only Claude Opus 4.8 reports · 11 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 88.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 93.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| AIME 2026 | 100% ↗matharena ⚠ | not reported | — | — |
| LMArena Elo | 1452.7 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OSWorld-Verified | 83.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 98.3% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 53% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 84.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multimodal | 38.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| SWE-Bench Pro | 69.2% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 74.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only GPT-5.5 Pro reports · 3 | ||||
| FrontierMath Tier 1-3 | not reported | 52.4% ↗ | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | not reported | 39.6% ↗ | — | — |
| GDPval (wins or ties) | not reported | 82.3% ↗ | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Claude Opus 4.8 minus GPT-5.5 Pro in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Claude Opus 4.8 | GPT-5.5 Pro | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1M tokens | 1.1M tokens | GPT-5.5 Pro |
| Max output | 128K tokens | 128K tokens | Tie |
| Input price / 1M | $5 ↗ | $30 ↗ | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| Output price / 1M | $25 ↗ | $180 ↗ | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.5 ↗ | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $30 | $210 | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision | Tie |
| Released | 2026-05-28 | 2026-04-23 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 17 | 8 | — |
Reliability
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