Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4 leads with 14.9% higher average benchmark score. Claude Sonnet 4 offers 183.6K more tokens in context window than GPT-4o. GPT-4o is $5.50 cheaper per million tokens. 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
This updated version of GPT-4o was released with refinements to its multimodal capabilities and improved performance across text, vision, and audio tasks. Built to incorporate learnings from the initial GPT-4o deployment, it enhanced reliability and accuracy while maintaining the seamless cross-modal reasoning that defines the GPT-4o family.
9 months newer

GPT-4o
OpenAI
2024-08-06

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

Claude Sonnet 4

GPT-4o
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 6 common benchmarks

Claude Sonnet 4

GPT-4o
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories

Claude Sonnet 4

GPT-4o
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude Sonnet 4

GPT-4o

Claude Sonnet 4

GPT-4o

GPT-4o
Azure
OpenAI