Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Opus 4 leads with 2.6% higher average benchmark score. Claude Sonnet 4 is $72.00 cheaper per million tokens. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4 is a multimodal language model developed by Anthropic. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 64.6% across 9 benchmarks. It excels particularly in MMMLU (88.8%), TAU-bench Retail (81.4%), GPQA (79.6%). It supports a 328K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 4 API providers. As a multimodal model, it can process and understand text, images, and other input formats seamlessly. Released in 2025, it represents Anthropic's latest advancement in AI technology.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4 is a multimodal language model developed by Anthropic. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 69.4% across 8 benchmarks. It excels particularly in MMMLU (86.5%), TAU-bench Retail (80.5%), GPQA (75.4%). It supports a 328K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 4 API providers. As a multimodal model, it can process and understand text, images, and other input formats seamlessly. Released in 2025, it represents Anthropic's latest advancement in AI technology.
Launched on the same date
Claude Opus 4
Anthropic
2025-05-22
Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
2025-05-22
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Claude Opus 4
Claude Sonnet 4
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 10 common benchmarks
Claude Opus 4
Claude Sonnet 4
Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude Opus 4
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval
Claude Opus 4
Claude Sonnet 4
Claude Opus 4
Claude Sonnet 4
Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval