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Claude Sonnet 4.5vsGPT-5
GPT-5 leads 7 of 8 shared benchmarks. GPT-5 is 1.6x cheaper per token. GPT-5 has the larger context window (400K tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
1 – 7
GPT-5 leads
Cheaper per token
GPT-5
1.6x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
GPT-5
400K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 95.0617%
Anthropic · OpenAI
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic · released 2025-09-29
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
8 shared · 12 only Claude Sonnet 4.5 · 0 only GPT-5| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | GPT-5 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 8 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 77.2% ↗ | 74.9% ↗ | +2.3 pt | Claude Sonnet 4.5 |
| GPQA Diamond | 83.4% ↗ | 86.2% ↗epoch | -2.8 pt | GPT-5 |
| AIME 2025 | 84.2% ↗matharena ⚠ | 94.6% ↗ | -10.4 pt | GPT-5 |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 2.4% ↗epoch | 22% ↗epoch | -19.6 pt | GPT-5 |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 23.9% ↗epoch | 55.4% ↗epoch | -31.5 pt | GPT-5 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 77.8% ↗epoch | 91.4% ↗epoch | -13.6 pt | GPT-5 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 30.7% ↗epoch | 50.1% ↗epoch | -19.4 pt | GPT-5 |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run) | 71.3% ↗epoch | 73.6% ↗epoch | -2.3 pt | GPT-5 |
| Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 reports · 12 | ||||
| Humanity's Last Exam (no tools) | 17.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| ARC-AGI-2 (Verified) | 13.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| GDPval-AA | 1276 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | 33.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MCP Atlas | 43.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMLU | 89.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro (no tools) | 63.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro (with tools) | 68.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OSWorld-Verified | 61.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Tau2-bench Retail | 86.2% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Tau2-bench Telecom | 98% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 51% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only GPT-5 reports · 0 | ||||
| GPT-5 reports nothing Claude Sonnet 4.5 does not. | ||||
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 Sonnet 4.5 minus GPT-5 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 Sonnet 4.5 | GPT-5 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 200K tokens | 400K tokens | GPT-5 |
| Max output | 64K tokens | 128K tokens | GPT-5 |
| Input price / 1M | $3 ↗ | $1.25 ↗ | GPT-5 |
| Output price / 1M | $15 ↗ | $10 ↗ | GPT-5 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.3 ↗ | $0.125 ↗ | GPT-5 |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $18 | $11.25 | GPT-5 |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision | Tie |
| Released | 2025-09-29 | 2025-08-07 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 21 | 9 | — |
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