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Claude Sonnet 5vsGPT-5.4
GPT-5.4 leads 5 of 7 shared benchmarks. Claude Sonnet 5 is 1.5x cheaper per token. GPT-5.4 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 – 5
GPT-5.4 leads
Cheaper per token
Claude Sonnet 5
1.5x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
GPT-5.4
1.1M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 95.4545%
Anthropic · OpenAI
Claude Sonnet 5
Anthropic · released 2026-06-30
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
7 shared · 1 only Claude Sonnet 5 · 13 only GPT-5.4| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | GPT-5.4 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 7 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 90.5% ↗epoch | 92.8% ↗ | -2.3 pt | GPT-5.4 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (no tools) | 43.2% ↗ | 39.8% ↗ | +3.4 pt | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 29.3% ↗epoch | 49% ↗epoch | -19.7 pt | GPT-5.4 |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 65.6% ↗epoch | 78.6% ↗epoch | -13 pt | GPT-5.4 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | 57.4% ↗ | 52.1% ↗ | +5.3 pt | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 94.7% ↗epoch | 97.8% ↗epoch | -3.1 pt | GPT-5.4 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 33.7% ↗epoch | 45.1% ↗epoch | -11.4 pt | GPT-5.4 |
| Only Claude Sonnet 5 reports · 1 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 85.2% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only GPT-5.4 reports · 13 | ||||
| AIME 2026 | not reported | 99.2% ↗matharena ⚠ | — | — |
| LMArena Elo | not reported | 1452.6 ↗ | — | — |
| BrowseComp | not reported | 82.7% ↗ | — | — |
| GDPval (wins or ties) | not reported | 83% ↗ | — | — |
| MCP Atlas | not reported | 67.2% ↗ | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro (no tools) | not reported | 81.2% ↗ | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro (with tools) | not reported | 82.1% ↗ | — | — |
| OSWorld-Verified | not reported | 75% ↗ | — | — |
| SWE-Bench Pro | not reported | 57.7% ↗ | — | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 76.9% ↗epoch | — | — |
| Tau2-bench Telecom | not reported | 98.9% ↗ | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | not reported | 75.1% ↗ | — | — |
| Toolathlon | not reported | 54.6% ↗ | — | — |
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 5 minus GPT-5.4 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 5 | GPT-5.4 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1M tokens | 1.1M tokens | GPT-5.4 |
| Max output | 128K tokens | 128K tokens | Tie |
| Input price / 1M | $2 ↗ | $2.5 ↗ | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| Output price / 1M | $10 ↗ | $15 ↗ | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.2 ↗ | $0.25 ↗ | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $12 | $17.5 | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision | Tie |
| Released | 2026-06-30 | 2026-03-05 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 8 | 21 | — |
Reliability
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