Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Opus 4 leads with 14.2% higher average benchmark score. Claude Opus 4 offers 195.9K more tokens in context window than GPT-4.5. Claude Opus 4 is $135.00 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Opus 4 is available on 4 providers. Overall, Claude Opus 4 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4 was developed as the flagship model in the Claude 4 generation, designed to push the boundaries of AI capability in complex reasoning, analysis, and multi-step problem-solving. Built to handle the most demanding enterprise tasks, it represents Anthropic's highest tier of intelligence and capability.
OpenAI
GPT-4.5 was developed as an intermediate advancement between GPT-4 and GPT-5, designed to incorporate incremental improvements in reasoning, factuality, and instruction-following. Built to bridge generational capabilities while maintaining compatibility with existing applications, it represents a refinement of the GPT-4 architecture with enhanced performance characteristics.
2 months newer

GPT-4.5
OpenAI
2025-02-27

Claude Opus 4
Anthropic
2025-05-22
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude Opus 4

GPT-4.5
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 5 common benchmarks

Claude Opus 4

GPT-4.5
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories

Claude Opus 4

GPT-4.5
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude Opus 4
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude Opus 4

GPT-4.5

Claude Opus 4

GPT-4.5

GPT-4.5
OpenAI