Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4 leads with 15.5% higher average benchmark score. Claude Sonnet 4 offers 307.5K more tokens in context window than GPT-3.5 Turbo. GPT-3.5 Turbo is $16.00 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Sonnet 4 supports multimodal inputs. Claude Sonnet 4 is available on 4 providers. Overall, Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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.
OpenAI
GPT-3.5 Turbo is a language model developed by OpenAI. The model shows competitive results across 8 benchmarks. Notable strengths include DROP (70.2%), MMLU (69.8%), HumanEval (68.0%). The model is available through 2 API providers.
2 years newer
GPT-3.5 Turbo
OpenAI
2023-03-21
Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
2025-05-22
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Claude Sonnet 4
GPT-3.5 Turbo
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 14 common benchmarks
Claude Sonnet 4
GPT-3.5 Turbo
GPT-3.5 Turbo
2021-09-30
Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval
Claude Sonnet 4
GPT-3.5 Turbo
Claude Sonnet 4
GPT-3.5 Turbo
GPT-3.5 Turbo
Azure
OpenAI