Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads with 35.4% higher average benchmark score. Claude Sonnet 4.5 offers 131.9K more tokens in context window than GPT-4 Turbo. Claude Sonnet 4.5 is $22.00 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Sonnet 4.5 supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5 was developed to bridge human thinking and machine assistance, allowing people to work with language and tools in a more conversational and natural way. Built with a focus on turning ideas into results, it represents an evolution in making AI feel less mechanical while maintaining strong capabilities across reasoning, coding, and collaborative tasks.
OpenAI
GPT-4 Turbo was introduced as an optimized version of GPT-4, designed to provide enhanced performance with improved efficiency and an expanded context window. Built with updated knowledge and refined capabilities, it offered developers a more cost-effective way to leverage GPT-4's advanced reasoning while handling longer conversations and documents.
1 year newer

GPT-4 Turbo
OpenAI
2024-04-09

Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
2025-09-29
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude Sonnet 4.5

GPT-4 Turbo
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Claude Sonnet 4.5

GPT-4 Turbo
GPT-4 Turbo
2023-12-31
Claude Sonnet 4.5
2025-01-31
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
ZeroEval


Claude Sonnet 4.5

GPT-4 Turbo

Claude Sonnet 4.5

GPT-4 Turbo
GPT-4 Turbo
Azure
OpenAI