Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-5 leads with 11.6% higher average benchmark score. GPT-5 offers 200.0K more tokens in context window than Claude Sonnet 4. GPT-5 is $6.75 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Sonnet 4 is available on 4 providers. Overall, GPT-5 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-5 represents the next generation of OpenAI's foundational models, developed to advance the frontier of AI capabilities in reasoning, knowledge, and general intelligence. Built to push beyond the limitations of GPT-4, it incorporates architectural and training improvements designed to enhance performance across diverse tasks and domains.
2 months newer

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
2025-05-22

GPT-5
OpenAI
2025-08-07
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude Sonnet 4

GPT-5
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

Claude Sonnet 4

GPT-5
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories

Claude Sonnet 4

GPT-5
GPT-5
2024-09-30
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude Sonnet 4

GPT-5

Claude Sonnet 4

GPT-5

GPT-5
OpenAI
ZeroEval