Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4 leads with 59.5% 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 was created as the balanced offering in the Claude 4 family, designed to provide strong intelligence with practical speed and cost efficiency. Built to serve as a versatile workhorse for diverse applications, it balances advanced capabilities with operational considerations for everyday enterprise and consumer use.
OpenAI
GPT-3.5 Turbo was developed as an optimized version of GPT-3.5, designed to provide a balance of capability and efficiency for conversational and completion tasks. Built to serve as a cost-effective option for applications requiring reliable language understanding and generation, it became widely adopted for chatbots, content generation, and general-purpose AI assistance.
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 2 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