Claude Opus 5 vs
GPT-5.5

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Models in this comparison

Provider identity and evidence state stay balanced across the pair.

A

Anthropic

Claude Opus 5

Model type
Proprietary
Evidence state
Supported evidence
Published context
Not verified
VS
O

OpenAI

GPT-5.5

Model type
Proprietary
Evidence state
Estimated evidence
Published context
1,000,000

Key implications

Insufficient shared-metric coverage. Each finding is tied to a published metric, price, context, or modality fact.

  1. Output API price: Claude Opus 5 has the lower verified rate ($25 / 1M tokens vs $30 / 1M tokens).

Shared metric view

A radar is shown only when at least four compatible supported score metrics are published.

Comparable metric detail

  • AgenticClaude Opus 5: 80.13 · GPT-5.5: 64.71
  • CodingClaude Opus 5: 78.41 · GPT-5.5: 72.5
  • KnowledgeClaude Opus 5: 97 · GPT-5.5: 77.7
  • MathClaude Opus 5: Unavailable · GPT-5.5: 71.1
  • MultimodalGroundedClaude Opus 5: 85.9 · GPT-5.5: 65.3
  • ReasoningClaude Opus 5: 83.5 · GPT-5.5: 79
  • OverallClaude Opus 5: 83.06 · GPT-5.5: 72.92

Source metrics

Friendly metric names and published units stay visible. Missing measurements remain unavailable rather than becoming a score.

Source metric comparison
MetricUnitClaude Opus 5GPT-5.5
Agenticscore80.1364.71
Codingscore78.4172.5
Knowledgescore9777.7
MathscoreUnavailable71.1
MultimodalGroundedscore85.965.3
Reasoningscore83.579
Overallscore83.0672.92

Agentic

Unit
score
Claude Opus 5
80.13
GPT-5.5
64.71

Coding

Unit
score
Claude Opus 5
78.41
GPT-5.5
72.5

Knowledge

Unit
score
Claude Opus 5
97
GPT-5.5
77.7

Math

Unit
score
Claude Opus 5
Unavailable
GPT-5.5
71.1

MultimodalGrounded

Unit
score
Claude Opus 5
85.9
GPT-5.5
65.3

Reasoning

Unit
score
Claude Opus 5
83.5
GPT-5.5
79

Overall

Unit
score
Claude Opus 5
83.06
GPT-5.5
72.92

Pricing and context

Verification is shown beside each selected route. Missing facts remain Not verified.

Route pricing and context comparison
FieldUnitClaude Opus 5GPT-5.5
Input API priceUSD / 1M tokens$5$5
Cached input API priceUSD / 1M tokens$0.5$0.5
Output API priceUSD / 1M tokens$25$30
Route contexttokens1,000,0001,000,000
Input modalitiespublished listNot verifiedNot verified
Output modalitiespublished listNot verifiedNot verified

Input API price

Unit
USD / 1M tokens
Claude Opus 5
$5
GPT-5.5
$5

Cached input API price

Unit
USD / 1M tokens
Claude Opus 5
$0.5
GPT-5.5
$0.5

Output API price

Unit
USD / 1M tokens
Claude Opus 5
$25
GPT-5.5
$30

Route context

Unit
tokens
Claude Opus 5
1,000,000
GPT-5.5
1,000,000

Input modalities

Unit
published list
Claude Opus 5
Not verified
GPT-5.5
Not verified

Output modalities

Unit
published list
Claude Opus 5
Not verified
GPT-5.5
Not verified

Evidence provenance

Source records, route identity, timestamps, and methodology are consolidated here without declaring either model a winner.

Publication time
Aug 30, 2026, 2:15 AM UTC
Freshness
Stale — Published weekly benchmark evidence has not refreshed within 8 days.
Methodology
benchlm: benchlm_raw_composite
Model records
  • Claude Opus 5 — source benchlm · artifact models · model claude-opus-5
  • GPT-5.5 — source benchlm · artifact models · model gpt-5-5
Selected price routes
  • Claude Opus 5 — route benchlm:claude-opus-5 · source benchlm · provider anthropic
  • GPT-5.5 — route benchlm:gpt-5-5 · source benchlm · provider openai

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