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Claude Opus 4.6 vs ChatGPT-4o

A detailed comparison of pricing, benchmarks, and capabilities

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Key Takeaways

Claude Opus 4.6 wins:

  • Larger context window
  • Faster response time
  • Higher intelligence benchmark
  • Better at coding
  • Has reasoning mode

ChatGPT-4o wins:

  • Cheaper output tokens
  • Better at math
Price Advantage
ChatGPT-4o
Benchmark Advantage
Claude Opus 4.6
Context Window
Claude Opus 4.6
Speed
Claude Opus 4.6

Pricing Comparison

Benchmark Comparison

Context & Performance

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureClaude Opus 4.6ChatGPT-4o
Vision (Image Input)
Tool/Function Calls
Reasoning Mode
Audio Input
Audio Output
PDF Input
Prompt Caching
Web Search

License & Release

PropertyClaude Opus 4.6ChatGPT-4o
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
AuthorAnthropicOpenAI
ReleasedFeb 2026Unknown

Claude Opus 4.6 Modalities

Input
textimage
Output
text

ChatGPT-4o Modalities

Input
Output

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Frequently Asked Questions

Claude Opus 4.6 has cheaper input pricing at $5.00/M tokens. ChatGPT-4o has cheaper output pricing at $15.00/M tokens.
Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks with a score of 47.6, compared to ChatGPT-4o's score of N/A.
Claude Opus 4.6 has a 1,000,000 token context window, while ChatGPT-4o has a 128,000 token context window.
Claude Opus 4.6 supports vision. ChatGPT-4o supports vision.