Claude 4 Sonnet vs GPT-4o
Head to head on 20 shared benchmarks, with price, context window, and release dates.
Benchmark scores
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| Claude 4 Sonnet Anthropic | 77.3% | 74.3% | 54.7% | 19.8% | 77.7% | 10.7% | 54.7% | 64.8% | 77.5% | 44.3% | 72.9% | 65.5% | 99.1% | 84.2% | 62.5% | 40.0% | 74.6% | 69.6% | 31.1% | 64.6% | - | - | - | 22.9% | 47.8% | - | 1483elo | 58.4 | - | 67.5% | - | - | 54.6% | 70.5% | 69.0% | 33.9% | - | 72.4% | 86.7% | 43.9% | - | 6.18 | 6.18 | 35.0% | - | 58.3% | 35.6% | - | - | 0.59 | 84.0% | 84.0% | - | 59.6% |
| GPT-4o OpenAI | 15.0% | 6.0% | 45.9% | 6.1% | 54.3% | 2.4% | 34.3% | 55.1% | 46.1% | 70.1% | 49.0% | 30.9% | 75.9% | 74.8% | 57.4% | 33.3% | 21.6% | 74.5% | 8.3% | 25.1% | 18.2% | 38 | 0.0% | - | - | 0.33 | - | - | 0.3% | - | 96.1 | 0.0% | - | - | - | - | 10.8% | - | - | - | 54.0% | - | - | - | 5.71 | - | - | 61.2 | 0.98 | - | - | - | 32.5% | 33.4% |
2 / 2 models
| Attribute | Claude 4 Sonnet Anthropic | GPT-4o OpenAI |
|---|---|---|
| Description | Claude 4 Sonnet is an AI model from Anthropic. | GPT-4o is an AI model from OpenAI. |
| Family | Claude | GPT |
| Params | - | - |
| Open weights | closed | closed |
| License | proprietary | proprietary |
| Released | 22 May 2025 | 20 Nov 2024 |
| Context | 200,000 | 128,000 |
| Input $/1M | - | $2.50 |
| Output $/1M | - | $10.00 |
| Cache read $/1M | - | $1.250 |
| Cache write $/1M | - | - |
| Speed | 0 tok/s | 0 tok/s |
| Latency | 0.00 s | 0.00 s |
| Modalities | text, image | text, image, file |
| Providers | - | - |
| Publisher | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Reported scores | Taubench61.2 pass^1 GSM8K96.1 Accuracy ScholarSearch5.71 Social Sciences & Humanities (%) MortgageTax57.4% AIME202438 pass@1 |
FAQ
- Is Claude 4 Sonnet or GPT-4o better?
- Across the 20 benchmarks both models report on Sophon, Claude 4 Sonnet leads on 18 of them. Which one is "better" depends on the benchmark - the table above shows every shared score.
- How do Claude 4 Sonnet and GPT-4o compare on GPQA Diamond?
- Claude 4 Sonnet scores 77.7% and GPT-4o scores 54.3% on GPQA Diamond.
- When were Claude 4 Sonnet and GPT-4o released?
- Claude 4 Sonnet was released 22 May 2025 by Anthropic. GPT-4o was released 20 Nov 2024 by OpenAI.
Other head-to-heads
56Claude 4 Sonnet vs GPT-5 Mini29 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs Claude Sonnet 4.528 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs Claude Opus 4.526 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs GPT-525 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs GPT-5 Nano25 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs GPT-5.225 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs Gemini 2.5 Pro25 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs Grok 4.1 Fast24 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs GPT-5.523 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview23 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs Kimi K2.523 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs Claude Opus 4.822 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs Claude Fable 522 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs Claude Opus 4.622 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs GPT-5.422 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs GLM 4.722 shared evalsGemini 2.5 Pro vs GPT-4o22 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.5 vs GPT-4o21 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs Claude Opus 4.721 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs DeepSeek V3.221 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs gpt-oss-120b21 shared evalsGPT-4o vs GPT-4o-mini21 shared evalsGPT-4.1 Mini vs GPT-4o20 shared evalsGPT-4o vs GPT-5 Mini20 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs Claude Sonnet 4.620 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs GLM 5.120 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs GPT-4.1 Mini19 shared evalsGPT-4o vs GPT-519 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs GPT-4.119 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs Qwen3.6 Plus19 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs GPT-5.4 Mini19 shared evalsGPT-4.1 vs GPT-4o19 shared evalsGPT-4o vs GPT-5 Nano18 shared evalsGPT-4o vs GPT-5.218 shared evalsClaude Opus 4.5 vs GPT-4o18 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs GPT-4o-mini18 shared evalsDeepSeek V3.2 vs GPT-4o18 shared evalsGPT-4o vs gpt-oss-120b17 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs GPT-4.1 Nano16 shared evalsGPT-4.1 Nano vs GPT-4o16 shared evalsGPT-4o vs Grok 4.1 Fast16 shared evalsGLM 4.7 vs GPT-4o16 shared evalsGPT-4o vs GPT-5.515 shared evalsClaude Opus 4.6 vs GPT-4o15 shared evalsGPT-4o vs Kimi K2.515 shared evalsGemini 3.1 Pro Preview vs GPT-4o14 shared evalsClaude Opus 4.8 vs GPT-4o14 shared evalsGPT-4o vs GPT-5.414 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-4o14 shared evalsGLM 5.1 vs GPT-4o14 shared evalsClaude Opus 4.7 vs GPT-4o14 shared evalsGPT-4o vs Qwen3.6 Plus14 shared evalsGPT-4o vs GPT-5.4 Mini14 shared evalsClaude Fable 5 vs GPT-4o13 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs GPT-6 Astra8 shared evalsGPT-4o vs GPT-6 Astra4 shared evals
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