Claude Opus 4.7 vs GPT-5.5
GPT-5.5 leads Claude Opus 4.7 on coding, 71.3 to 67.5 on the Vibe Coding Index, and Claude Opus 4.7 costs 1.2x less per output token ($25.00 vs $30.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 101 benchmarks have a result for both.
Claude Opus 4.7 or GPT-5.5: which to pick
Pick GPT-5.5 for coding: it scores 71.3 on the Vibe Coding Index against 67.5 for Claude Opus 4.7.
Pick Claude Opus 4.7 for output tokens 1.2x cheaper ($25.00 vs $30.00 per million) and work measured by LMArena WebDev or Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI), where it leads.
- Shared results
- 101
- Claude Opus 4.7 only
- 2
- GPT-5.5 only
- 33
- Like-for-like categories
- 7 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
GPT-5.5
GPT-5.5 scores 71.3 against 67.5.
4 and 5 benchmarks behind the scores
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.7 leads, 40.7 against 38.4.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.7 leads, 38.6 against 36.4.
Same board, both measured
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
GPT-5.5
GPT-5.5 leads, 93.2% against 90.2%.
Same board, both measured
Math
AIME
No call
Only Claude Opus 4.7 has a AIME result, 96.3%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.7 leads, 89.9% against 88.1%.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only GPT-5.5 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1256.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
GPT-5.5
GPT-5.5 takes 1.05M tokens against 1M.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.7 $0.018, GPT-5.5 $0.020 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
GPT-5.5
Claude Opus 4.7 $2.95, GPT-5.5 $1.65.
Published attempt cost and pass rate
At a glance
- Coding index
- Claude Opus 4.7 67.5 from 4 benchmarks, GPT-5.5 71.3 from 5 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Math, 12.9 points apart on average over 6 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- FrontierMath, tier 4: Claude Opus 4.7 31.7% against GPT-5.5 72.5%, 40.8 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Claude Opus 4.7 $25.00 against GPT-5.5 $30.00 per million output tokens, 1.2x apart.
- Context window
- Claude Opus 4.7 takes 1M tokens, GPT-5.5 1.05M.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | Claude Opus 4.7 | Bars | GPT-5.5 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 9 | 10 | ||
| Intelligence | 1 | 1 | ||
| Agentic work | 5 | 5 | ||
| Reasoning | 5 | 12 | ||
| Math | 4 | 2 | ||
| Knowledge | 9 | 4 | ||
| General | 24 | 10 | ||
| All shared boards | 57 | 44 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index910
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.7 | GPT-5.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | Not measured | 85.1% | Only GPT-5.5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1558 | 1513 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| AA Coding Index | 73.6 | 74.9 | GPT-5.5 |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 85.1% | 85.3% | GPT-5.5 |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 82.0% | 82.6% | GPT-5.5 |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 71.0% | 69.8% | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 43.9% | 45.2% | GPT-5.5 |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 0.0% | 0.5% | GPT-5.5 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 68.5% | 76.4% | GPT-5.5 |
| SkillsBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 62.5% | Only GPT-5.5 measured |
| SciCode | Not measured | 56.1% | Only GPT-5.5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 54.5% | 60.6% | GPT-5.5 |
| Terminal-Bench | 80.2% | 84.7% | GPT-5.5 |
| FrontierCode | 38.5% | 43.0% | GPT-5.5 |
| GSO-Bench | 44.1% | 40.2% | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| WeirdML | 76.4% | 84.9% | GPT-5.5 |
| MirrorCode | 31.1% | 10.0% | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| ALE-Bench | Not measured | 1943.0 | Only GPT-5.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1519 | 1494 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1516 | 1493 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1560 | 1506 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1554 | 1543 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | 1577 | 1532 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index11
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.7 | GPT-5.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 40.7 | 38.4 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 156.8 | 159.7 | GPT-5.5 |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index55
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.7 | GPT-5.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 38.6 | 36.4 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | Not measured | 1117 | Only GPT-5.5 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | Not measured | 1089 | Only GPT-5.5 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | Not measured | 1142 | Only GPT-5.5 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Android apps | Not measured | 1164 | Only GPT-5.5 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Godot games | Not measured | 1173 | Only GPT-5.5 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building games | Not measured | 1179 | Only GPT-5.5 measured |
| Design Arena: HTML slides | Not measured | 1017 | Only GPT-5.5 measured |
| Design Arena: PowerPoint slides | Not measured | 1084 | Only GPT-5.5 measured |
| LiveBench research | Not measured | 61.6% | Only GPT-5.5 measured |
| LiveBench browser | Not measured | 48.0% | Only GPT-5.5 measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | Not measured | 44.6% | Only GPT-5.5 measured |
| SREBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 3.8% | Only GPT-5.5 measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 51.5% | 51.8% | GPT-5.5 |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 23.7% | 21.8% | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 38.5% | 40.4% | GPT-5.5 |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 63.7% | 64.5% | GPT-5.5 |
| Time Horizon Index (Vals AI) | Not measured | 8.3% | Only GPT-5.5 measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 88.6% | 93.9% | GPT-5.5 |
| APEX-Agents | 49.2% | 55.1% | GPT-5.5 |
| Remote Labor Index | Not measured | 6.3% | Only GPT-5.5 measured |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 18.2% | 13.0% | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| DeepResearch Bench | Not measured | 54.0% | Only GPT-5.5 measured |
| PostTrainBench | 28.6% | 27.2% | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $10,937 | $7,524 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| LMArena Search | 1230 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.7 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 15 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index512
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.7 | GPT-5.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 90.2% | 93.2% | GPT-5.5 |
| LiveBench reasoning | Not measured | 89.7% | Only GPT-5.5 measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 85.5% | 88.3% | GPT-5.5 |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 91.4% | 93.5% | GPT-5.5 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 42.3% | 45.8% | GPT-5.5 |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 90.2% | 90.7% | GPT-5.5 |
| ARC-AGI | 93.5% | 95.0% | GPT-5.5 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 75.8% | 85.0% | GPT-5.5 |
| SimpleBench | 61.7% | 69.0% | GPT-5.5 |
| Chess puzzles | 41.0% | 63.0% | GPT-5.5 |
| Mystery game puzzles | 28.0% | 56.0% | GPT-5.5 |
| EBR-bench | 19.0% | 34.3% | GPT-5.5 |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1506 | 1489 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1521 | 1507 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1508 | 1483 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1336 | 1325 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1337 | 1332 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 80.7% | 88.8% | GPT-5.5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index42
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.7 | GPT-5.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 96.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.7 measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 97.8% | 84.4% | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 70.2% | 85.3% | GPT-5.5 |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 31.7% | 72.5% | GPT-5.5 |
| ProofBench | 54.0% | 50.0% | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| LMArena Text: math | 1498 | 1487 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1509 | 1496 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index94
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.7 | GPT-5.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 89.9% | 88.1% | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 85.3% | 86.5% | GPT-5.5 |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | 68.4% | 66.2% | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 66.1% | 68.4% | GPT-5.5 |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 75.3% | 75.0% | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 70.3% | 68.8% | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 54.9% | 49.1% | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 51.7% | 63.0% | GPT-5.5 |
| LMArena Text: science | 1508 | 1485 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1495 | 1465 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1504 | 1491 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1490 | 1478 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| FACTS Benchmark Suite | 45.5% | 66.7% | GPT-5.5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index9 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.7 | GPT-5.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | Not measured | 1256 | Only GPT-5.5 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | Not measured | 1257 | Only GPT-5.5 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | Not measured | 1293 | Only GPT-5.5 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | Not measured | 1264 | Only GPT-5.5 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | Not measured | 1197 | Only GPT-5.5 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | Not measured | 1260 | Only GPT-5.5 measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | Not measured | 1234 | Only GPT-5.5 measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | Not measured | 1255 | Only GPT-5.5 measured |
| LiveBench design | Not measured | 70.3% | Only GPT-5.5 measured |
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index2410
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.7 | GPT-5.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench data analysis | Not measured | 81.6% | Only GPT-5.5 measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 60.9% | Only GPT-5.5 measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 56.1% | 51.5% | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 83.0% | 86.9% | GPT-5.5 |
| Vals Multimodal Index | 67.4% | 68.1% | GPT-5.5 |
| IFBench | 58.6% | 75.9% | GPT-5.5 |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 78.7% | 84.3% | GPT-5.5 |
| DTBench | 94.7% | 96.0% | GPT-5.5 |
| LMCA | 52.2% | 54.3% | GPT-5.5 |
| Surface Evolver Bench | Not measured | 88.1% | Only GPT-5.5 measured |
| Furniture assembly | 33.3% | 44.2% | GPT-5.5 |
| ExploitBench | 26.5% | 47.4% | GPT-5.5 |
| CL-bench Life | Not measured | 22.2% | Only GPT-5.5 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1490 | 1471 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1498 | 1478 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1486 | 1455 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| LMArena Vision | 1317 | 1297 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| LMArena Text: English | 1496 | 1470 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1480 | 1467 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1531 | 1534 | GPT-5.5 |
| LMArena Text: German | 1495 | 1480 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1474 | 1499 | GPT-5.5 |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1464 | 1460 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| LMArena Text: French | 1503 | 1485 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1494 | 1468 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1494 | 1473 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1489 | 1465 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1505 | 1476 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1505 | 1484 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1492 | 1466 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1474 | 1449 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1322 | 1292 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1371 | 1360 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1327 | 1306 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1309 | 1293 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| LMArena Vision: recognizing things | 1278 | 1231 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1326 | 1301 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| LMArena Document | 1495 | 1486 | Claude Opus 4.7 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.7 | GPT-5.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Claude Opus 4.7 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Claude Opus 4.7 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Claude Opus 4.7 costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7 | OpenAI GPT-5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | April 16, 2026 | April 24, 2026 |
| Context window | 1M | 1.05M |
| Input $/Mtok | $5.00 | $5.00 |
| Output $/Mtok | $25.00 | $30.00 |
| Coding index | 67.5 | 71.3 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 4 | 5 |
| Cost per solved task | $2.95 | $1.65 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than GPT-5.5 for coding?
Pick GPT-5.5 for coding: it scores 71.3 on the Vibe Coding Index against 67.5 for Claude Opus 4.7. Pick Claude Opus 4.7 for output tokens 1.2x cheaper ($25.00 vs $30.00 per million) and work measured by LMArena WebDev or Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI), where it leads.
Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.7 or GPT-5.5?
Claude Opus 4.7 costs $5.00 per million input tokens and $25.00 per million output tokens; GPT-5.5 costs $5.00 and $30.00. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, Claude Opus 4.7 costs $2.95 and GPT-5.5 $1.65.
Which has the bigger context window, Claude Opus 4.7 or GPT-5.5?
GPT-5.5, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.
How many benchmarks is the Claude Opus 4.7 vs GPT-5.5 comparison based on?
101 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Claude Opus 4.7's coding index rests on 4 independent benchmarks and GPT-5.5's on 5. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.