Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Opus 4.5 leads with 4.8% higher average benchmark score. o3 offers 36.0K more tokens in context window than Claude Opus 4.5. Claude Opus 4.5 is $20.00 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Opus 4.5 is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.5, released by Anthropic in November 2025, is a large language model from the Claude 4.5 family built for demanding reasoning tasks, advanced code generation, and complex agentic workflows. It features a 200K token context window, 64K maximum output tokens, native image understanding, and extended thinking with configurable effort levels. Opus 4.5 targets deep analytical work, multi-step tool orchestration, and applications requiring sustained reasoning across long, complex tasks.
OpenAI
OpenAI o3, released by OpenAI in April 2025, is a large reasoning model that applies extended chain-of-thought processing to deliver improved performance on complex math, science, and coding tasks. It features a 200K token context window and native image understanding, with demonstrated strong results on mathematics and software engineering benchmarks. o3 targets demanding analytical and engineering tasks where deliberate, multi-step reasoning produces significantly better outcomes than direct generation.
6 months newer

o3
OpenAI
2025-04-16

Claude Opus 4.5
Anthropic
2025-11-01
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Claude Opus 4.5
o3
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 6 common benchmarks
Claude Opus 4.5
o3
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories
Claude Opus 4.5
Claude Opus 4.5
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Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude Opus 4.5
Anthropic
AWS Bedrock
Google Cloud Vertex AI
o3
Claude Opus 4.5
o3
Claude Opus 4.5
o3
o3
OpenAI