BenchLeader

Claude Opus 4.7 vs GPT-5

Verdict
  • Claude Opus 4.7 leads on quality: 65.6 vs 59.9.
  • Claude Opus 4.7 is stronger in agents & tools, coding, composite, human preference, knowledge, long context, maths, multimodal, reasoning.
  • GPT-5 is stronger in instruction following.
  • GPT-5 is 2.9× cheaper ($3.44 vs $10.00 per 1M blended).
  • GPT-5 streams 1.6× faster (70 vs 43 tokens per second).
MetricClaude Opus 4.7GPT-5
BenchLeader Index65.659.9
Agents & tools score69.451.0
Coding score64.861.0
Composite score80.458.0
Human preference score69.161.8
Instruction following score58.767.7
Knowledge score66.562.2
Long context score65.965.6
Maths score65.4
Multimodal score65.759.6
Reasoning score66.664.2
Blended price $/M$10.00$3.44
Output speed43 tok/s70 tok/s
Time to first answer21.7 s77.2 s
Context window1M400k
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%
Terminal-Bench80.2%49.6%
SimpleBench61.7%
SciCode42.9%
Remote Labor Index1.7%
WeirdML76.4%39.8%
APEX-Agents18.3%
FrontierCode38.5%
GSO-Bench44.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index156.3150
LMArena Text14951427
LMArena Hard Prompts15191449
LMArena Coding15471463
LMArena WebDev1557
LMArena Vision13171232
AA Intelligence Index40.723.0
IFBench58.6%73.1%
AA-LCR78.7%78.2%
MMMU-Pro78.8%74.2%
AA-Omniscience27.3-8.7
Terminal-Bench Hard51.5%32.6%
GPQA Diamond (AA)91.4%85.3%
Humanity's Last Exam (AA)42.3%28.5%
τ²-Bench Telecom (AA)88.6%84.8%
AIME (Vals)96.3%
LiveCodeBench85.1%
MMLU-Pro89.9%
IOI47.1%
LegalBench85.3%
CorpFin66.1%
TaxEval75.3%
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals)68.5%
SWE-bench (Vals)82.0%
GPQA Diamond (Vals)90.2%
Vals Index56.1
PRBench Finance51.3%
PRBench Legal49.0%
VISTA49.7%
MultiNRC52.1%
HiL-Bench41.7%
TutorBench55.3%
EQ-Bench 41311
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.3%72.7%
Aider Polyglot88.0%
SWE-bench Verified (any scaffold)75.6%

Data as of 2026-09-10. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.

Claude Opus 4.7 vs GPT-5: questions

Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than GPT-5?
Claude Opus 4.7 leads on quality: 65.6 vs 59.9. The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; Claude Opus 4.7 is ahead overall as of 2026-09-10, but check the category scores for your use.
Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than GPT-5 for coding?
Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher in coding (65 vs 61 on the category index, where 50 is average).
Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than GPT-5 for agentic tasks?
Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher in agentic tasks (69 vs 51 on the category index, where 50 is average).
Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.7 or GPT-5?
GPT-5 is cheaper: $3.44 against $10.00 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token.
Which is faster, Claude Opus 4.7 or GPT-5?
GPT-5 streams faster: 70 against 43 output tokens per second.
Which has the larger context window?
Claude Opus 4.7 accepts more context: 1M against 400k tokens.