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Claude Opus 4.8 vs GPT-5.5

Head to head on 41 shared benchmarks, with price, context window, and release dates.

Benchmark scores

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Model
Claude Opus 4.8

Anthropic

15.5%14.5%66.7%67.0%1281elo1835elo80.840.0%53.9%13.4%47.2%22.5%1890elo92.0%56.9%48.7%62.2%10.4%80.1%79.3%78.3%67.4%81.4%84.3%89.7%91.8%53.2%85.8%69.9%83.4%69.0%54.8%53.5%69.2%75.6%82.7%58.3%60.9%70.9%82.7%94.4%--80.4%---------63.4%
GPT-5.5

OpenAI

12.9%36.2%68.4%86.0%1315elo1844elo78.234.0%51.8%5.7%51.7%24.9%1769elo76.8%51.8%13.7%46.1%2.1%84.7%82.5%81.1%73.0%87.7%96.3%87.7%92.8%49.1%86.9%68.8%78.7%50.0%51.5%47.3%58.6%75.0%83.4%49.2%57.4%68.1%69.8%69.3%86.2%54.2%-90.0%100.0%44.8%15.1%88.6%45.3%100.0%4.275.7%61.9%
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AttributeClaude Opus 4.8

Anthropic

GPT-5.5

OpenAI

DescriptionClaude Opus 4.8 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) is an AI model from Anthropic.GPT-5.5 is an AI model from OpenAI.
FamilyClaudeGPT
Params--
Open weights-closed
License-proprietary
Released28 May 202623 Apr 2026
Context1,000,0001,050,000
Input $/1M$5.00$5.00
Output $/1M$25.00$30.00
Cache read $/1M$0.500$0.500
Cache write $/1M$6.250-
Speed0 tok/s0 tok/s
Latency0.00 s0.00 s
Modalitiestext, image, filefile, image, text
Providers--
PublisherAnthropicOpenAI
Reported scores

FAQ

Is Claude Opus 4.8 or GPT-5.5 better?
Across the 41 benchmarks both models report on Sophon, Claude Opus 4.8 leads on 25 of them. Which one is "better" depends on the benchmark - the table above shows every shared score.
How do Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 compare on GPQA Diamond?
Claude Opus 4.8 scores 92.0% and GPT-5.5 scores 76.8% on GPQA Diamond.
Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.8 or GPT-5.5?
Claude Opus 4.8 is cheaper at $25.00 per million output tokens against $30.00 for GPT-5.5 - about 1.2x.
When were Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 released?
Claude Opus 4.8 was released 28 May 2026 by Anthropic. GPT-5.5 was released 23 Apr 2026 by OpenAI.

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