Claude Sonnet 5 vs GPT-4o
Claude Sonnet 5: 55.3% average across five Vision Evals tasks (#49 of 65 models). GPT-4o is deprecated and was not run through Roboflow's Vision Evals, so there is no head-to-head score.
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GPT-4o is deprecated and can no longer be run. Details and evals are still available on its model page.
Claude Sonnet 5 vs GPT-4o Comparison Table
Evals updated October 26, 2026Pricing updated October 29, 2026
| Property | Claude Sonnet 5 | GPT-4o |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Category | closed | closed |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | Jun 2026 | May 2024 |
| Context Window | 1.0M | 128K |
| Parameters | Unknown | Unknown |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Commercial use | commercial use per vendor terms | commercial use per vendor terms |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $2.00 | $2.50 |
| Output $/1M | $10.00 | $10.00 |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Captioning | Demo | Supported |
| Classification | Demo | Supported |
| Object Detection | Demo | Supported |
| OCR | Demo | Supported |
| Visual Question Answering | Demo | Supported |
| Model Features | ||
Both support 3 more features | ||
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 5 vision tasks, pooled at low effort | ||
| Overall | 55.3% | Deprecated |
| Avg cost / sample | $0.0074 | – |
| Avg speed / sample | 5.86s | – |
| By task | ||
| Object Detection | 36.1% | – |
| Counting | 56.8% | – |
| Identification | 81.3% | – |
| OCR (low) | 59.4% | – |
| by category |
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| OCR (high) | 59.5% | – |
| by category |
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| Reasoning (low) | 43.0% | – |
| Reasoning (high) | 43.0% | – |
Claude Sonnet 5 vs GPT-4o: Overview
Claude Sonnet 5 is a mid-tier large language model from Anthropic, released on June 30, 2026, as the latest model in the Sonnet series and a direct successor to Claude Sonnet 4.6. It is a hybrid reasoning model designed primarily for agentic workflows, software coding, and professional tasks. The model features a 1 million token context window, a 128k maximum output token limit, and runs adaptive thinking by default, giving API users fine-grained control over reasoning effort across five levels (low, medium, high, max, and extra-high). It uses an updated tokenizer shared with Opus 4.7 and later models, which produces approximately 30% more tokens for equivalent text compared to earlier Claude models.
The model supports text and image input with text output, and accepts tools including browsers and terminals for autonomous multi-step task execution. Anthropic's safety evaluations report that Sonnet 5 shows a lower rate of undesirable behaviors than Sonnet 4.6 and is generally safer in agentic contexts, with improved resistance to prompt injection and reduced sycophancy. Cybersecurity safeguards equivalent to those on Opus 4.7 and 4.8 are active, though Anthropic notes the model was not deliberately trained on cybersecurity tasks. The model is proprietary and API-only, with no open weights.
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.