Claude Opus 4.7 vs GPT-5.6 Luna
Verdict
- Claude Opus 4.7 leads on quality: 65.6 vs 59.4.
- Claude Opus 4.7 is stronger in agents & tools, coding, composite, human preference, instruction following, knowledge, maths, multimodal, reasoning.
- GPT-5.6 Luna (xhigh) is stronger in long context.
- GPT-5.6 Luna (xhigh) is 22× cheaper ($0.450 vs $10.00 per 1M blended).
- GPT-5.6 Luna (xhigh) streams 2.5× faster (107 vs 43 tokens per second).
| Metric | Claude Opus 4.7 | GPT-5.6 Luna (xhigh) |
|---|---|---|
| BenchLeader Index | 65.6 | 59.4 |
| Agents & tools score | 69.4 | 50.1 |
| Coding score | 64.8 | 60.0 |
| Composite score | 80.4 | 72.9 |
| Human preference score | 69.1 | 65.0 |
| Instruction following score | 58.7 | – |
| Knowledge score | 66.5 | 59.0 |
| Long context score | 65.9 | 67.4 |
| Maths score | 65.4 | – |
| Multimodal score | 65.7 | 61.6 |
| Reasoning score | 66.6 | 53.9 |
| Blended price $/M | $10.00 | $0.450 |
| Output speed | 43 tok/s | 107 tok/s |
| Time to first answer | 21.7 s | 55.4 s |
| Context window | 1M | 1M |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 36.2% | – |
| Terminal-Bench | 80.2% | – |
| SimpleBench | 61.7% | 46.8% |
| SciCode | – | 50.0% |
| WeirdML | 76.4% | – |
| FrontierCode | 38.5% | – |
| GSO-Bench | 44.1% | – |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 156.3 | – |
| LMArena Text | 1495 | 1453 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1519 | 1473 |
| LMArena Coding | 1547 | 1497 |
| LMArena WebDev | 1557 | 1520 |
| LMArena Vision | 1317 | 1254 |
| LMArena Agent | – | 1.1 |
| AA Intelligence Index | 40.7 | 34.8 |
| IFBench | 58.6% | – |
| AA-LCR | 78.7% | 81.7% |
| MMMU-Pro | 78.8% | 78.5% |
| AA-Omniscience | 27.3 | -10.8 |
| Terminal-Bench Hard | 51.5% | – |
| GPQA Diamond (AA) | 91.4% | 89.5% |
| Humanity's Last Exam (AA) | 42.3% | 37.0% |
| SciCode (AA) | – | 50.5% |
| τ²-Bench Telecom (AA) | 88.6% | – |
| AIME (Vals) | 96.3% | – |
| LiveCodeBench | 85.1% | – |
| MMLU-Pro | 89.9% | – |
| IOI | 47.1% | – |
| LegalBench | 85.3% | – |
| CorpFin | 66.1% | – |
| TaxEval | 75.3% | – |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 68.5% | – |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 82.0% | – |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 90.2% | – |
| Vals Index | 56.1 | – |
| HiL-Bench | 41.7% | – |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1311 | – |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 73.3% | – |
| ARC-AGI-1 | – | 87.7% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | – | 47.6% |
| ARC-AGI-3 | – | 0.0% |
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-5.6 Luna: questions
- Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than GPT-5.6 Luna?
- Claude Opus 4.7 leads on quality: 65.6 vs 59.4. 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-5.6 Luna for coding?
- Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher in coding (65 vs 60 on the category index, where 50 is average).
- Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than GPT-5.6 Luna for agentic tasks?
- Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher in agentic tasks (69 vs 50 on the category index, where 50 is average).
- Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.7 or GPT-5.6 Luna?
- GPT-5.6 Luna is cheaper: $0.450 against $10.00 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token.
- Which is faster, Claude Opus 4.7 or GPT-5.6 Luna?
- GPT-5.6 Luna streams faster: 107 against 43 output tokens per second.
- Which has the larger context window?
- Both accept 1M tokens of context.