Claude Opus 4.8 vs GPT-5.5

Best cell per row highlighted. Null means undisclosed — never counted as zero.

Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.8GA
9.2
AI Panel
OpenAI
GPT-5.5GA
8.7
AI Panel

Identity & lifecycle

ProviderAnthropicOpenAI
Family / tierClaude 4 · OpusGPT-5 · Pro
StatusGAGA
Released2026-05-272026-04-22
Knowledge cutoff2025-12

Architecture & context

Context window1M1.1M
Max output tokens128K128K
Input modalitiestext, imagetext, image
Reasoning modealwaysoptional
Open weightsNoNo

Pricing (per Mtok)

Input$5$5
Output$25$30
Cached input$0.5$0.5
Batch input$2.5$2.5
Free tierNoNo

Speed

Output speed (tok/s)6068.7
Time to first token (s)0.564
Latency tiermediumslow

Trust & deployment

Trains on inputsNoNo
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
CloudsBedrock, Vertex AI, Azure AI FoundryAzure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry
ComplianceSOC2, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO27001SOC2, GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA

AI Panel scoring

Unified score9.28.7
Decision Maker99
Domain Strategist98.8
Finance Lead8.57
Domain Practitioner9.59.2
Power User99
Skeptic87.8
Value score86.5

Benchmarks

MMLU-Pro92.4
GPQA Diamond93.693.6
SWE-bench Verified88.688.7
MMMU81.2
TAU-bench98
Terminal-Bench74.682.7
MRCR Long Context74
Humanity's Last Exam41.4
LMArena Elo1476
Artificial Analysis Index60

Scores link to their sources. Missing cells mean the vendor hasn't disclosed a result — honesty over padding.