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Claude Opus 4 vs GPT-4o

Compare Claude Opus 4 and GPT-4o side-by-side. See how these vision models stack up in Image Captioning, OCR, Object Detection, Open Prompt, and Classification.

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AnthropicClaude Opus 4

Claude Opus 4 is deprecated and can no longer be run. Details and evals are still available on its model page.

OpenAIGPT-4o

GPT-4o is deprecated and can no longer be run. Details and evals are still available on its model page.

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Anthropic
OpenAI

Claude Opus 4 vs GPT-4o Comparison Table

Evals updated July 28, 2026Pricing updated July 31, 2026

PropertyClaude Opus 4GPT-4o
OrganizationAnthropicOpenAI
Categoryclosedclosed
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateMay 2025May 2024
Context Window200K128K
Parameters
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$15.00$2.50
Output $/1M$75.00$10.00
Vision Tasks
Captioning
Chart Question Answering
Classification
Document Question Answering
Image Tagging
Multi-Label Classification
Object Detection
OCR
Vision Language
Visual Question Answering
Model Features
Foundation Vision
LLMs with Vision Capabilities
Multimodal Vision

Claude Opus 4 vs GPT-4o: Overview

Claude Opus 4

Claude 4 Opus, released by Anthropic in May 2025, is the flagship model of the Claude 4 family, built for complex, long-horizon reasoning and advanced coding workflows. It is multimodal, supporting text (including voice), images, and tool use, and operates as a hybrid reasoning model—able to deliver quick answers in fast mode or switch to extended thinking for deeper, multi-step problem solving. With a ~200,000-token context window and a training cutoff around March 2025, it is optimized for handling large documents, long conversations, and sophisticated agentic tasks.

Positioned at the high end of Anthropic’s offerings, Opus 4 achieves state-of-the-art results on coding benchmarks like SWE-Bench (72.5%) and Terminal-Bench (43.2%). It is best suited for research, enterprise automation, and software development at scale. The model is classified at Anthropic’s ASL-3 safety level, denoting advanced oversight and safety features.

GPT-4o

GPT-4o (“omni”), released by OpenAI in May 2024, is a multimodal flagship model designed to unify text, image, and audio processing in a single system. Unlike earlier GPT-4 variants, GPT-4o supports real-time speech-to-speech interaction, enabling natural voice conversations alongside text and image reasoning. It features a context window of ~128,000 tokens for text input, with smaller output limits (commonly ~16K tokens), and has a knowledge cutoff of October 2023.

The model is optimized for efficiency and multilingual accessibility, supporting over 50 languages and covering ~97% of the world’s speakers. GPT-4o offers a cost-effective balance of speed and capability. It powers ChatGPT across free and paid tiers, making it widely accessible for applications in conversational AI, real-time translation, multimodal assistants, and global-scale communication tools.