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Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Claude Opus 4.5 vs gpt-oss-120b
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Winner summary
Claude Opus 4.5 wins on 21/30 benchmarks
Claude Opus 4.5 wins 21 of 30 shared benchmarks. Leads in arena · general · knowledge.
Category leads
arena·Claude Opus 4.5general·Claude Opus 4.5knowledge·Claude Opus 4.5math·gpt-oss-120bsafety·Claude Opus 4.5reasoning·Claude Opus 4.5coding·Claude Opus 4.5agentic·Claude Opus 4.5language·Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
#190 by perf·no signal
Claude Opus 4.5
#179 by perf·#7 by attention
gpt-oss-120b
#127 by perf·no signal
Best value
gpt-oss-120b
171.8x better value than Claude Opus 4.5
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
n/a
no price
Claude Opus 4.5
2.8 pts/$
$15.00/M
gpt-oss-120b
475.4 pts/$
$0.10/M
Vendor risk
Who is behind the model
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Head to head
30 benchmarks · 3 models
Claude 3.5 SonnetClaude Opus 4.5gpt-oss-120b
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +95.8
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
1374.0
Claude Opus 4.5
1469.8
gpt-oss-120b
1351.6
Dtbench
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +22.7
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
46.3
Claude Opus 4.5
83.1
gpt-oss-120b
60.5
GPQA diamond
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +13.7
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
38.7
Claude Opus 4.5
81.4
gpt-oss-120b
67.7
Metr Time Horizons
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +18.3
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
40.1
Claude Opus 4.5
75.0
gpt-oss-120b
56.6
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
gpt-oss-120b leads by +2.8
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
6.4
Claude Opus 4.5
86.1
gpt-oss-120b
88.9
Fortress
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +0.6
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
13.0
Claude Opus 4.5
13.6
gpt-oss-120b
8.2
SimpleBench
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +41.4
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
13.0
Claude Opus 4.5
54.4
gpt-oss-120b
6.5
WeirdML
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +15.6
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
31.0
Claude Opus 4.5
63.7
gpt-oss-120b
48.2
Aider polyglot
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads by +9.8
Aider Polyglot · measures how well AI models can edit code across multiple programming languages using the Aider coding assistant framework.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
51.6
gpt-oss-120b
41.8
APEX-Agents
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +14.0
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
Claude Opus 4.5
18.4
gpt-oss-120b
4.4
Balrog
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +10.9
Balrog · benchmarks AI agents on text-based adventure games, testing language understanding, strategic planning, and long-horizon reasoning.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
32.6
Claude Opus 4.5
43.5
Chess Puzzles
gpt-oss-120b leads by +8.4
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
Claude Opus 4.5
7.4
gpt-oss-120b
15.8
Cybench
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +64.5
Cybench · evaluates AI on real Capture-The-Flag cybersecurity challenges, testing vulnerability analysis, exploitation, and security reasoning.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
17.5
Claude Opus 4.5
82.0
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +18.9
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
1.8
Claude Opus 4.5
20.7
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +4.2
FrontierMath Tier 4 (Jul 2025) · the most challenging tier of frontier mathematics, containing problems that push the absolute limits of AI mathematical reasoning.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
0.0
Claude Opus 4.5
4.2
GeoBench
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +13.0
GeoBench · tests geographic knowledge and spatial reasoning across countries, landmarks, coordinates, and geopolitical understanding.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
62.0
Claude Opus 4.5
75.0
GSO-Bench
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +21.9
GSO-Bench · evaluates AI models on real-world open-source software engineering tasks, testing the ability to understand and resolve actual GitHub issues.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
4.6
Claude Opus 4.5
26.5
HELM · GPQA
gpt-oss-120b leads by +11.9
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
56.5
gpt-oss-120b
68.4
HELM · IFEval
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads by +2.0
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
85.6
gpt-oss-120b
83.6
HELM · MMLU-Pro
gpt-oss-120b leads by +1.8
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
77.7
gpt-oss-120b
79.5
HELM · Omni-MATH
gpt-oss-120b leads by +41.2
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
27.6
gpt-oss-120b
68.8
HELM · WildBench
gpt-oss-120b leads by +5.3
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
79.2
gpt-oss-120b
84.5
HLE
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +21.4
HLE (Humanity's Last Exam) · a reasoning benchmark designed to be the hardest public evaluation of AI. Questions span mathematics, physics, philosophy, and logic · curated to be at or beyond the frontier of human expert capability. Tested with and without tool augmentation. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 46.9% without tools and 54.7% with tools · making it one of the few benchmarks where the top score is below 60%.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
0.0
Claude Opus 4.5
21.4
Lech Mazur Writing
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads by +3.2
Lech Mazur Writing · evaluates creative writing ability, assessing prose quality, narrative coherence, and stylistic sophistication.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
80.3
gpt-oss-120b
77.1
Lmca
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +26.3
Claude Opus 4.5
52.3
gpt-oss-120b
26.1
Mystery Game Puzzles
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +14.1
Claude Opus 4.5
14.1
gpt-oss-120b
0.0
SimpleQA Verified
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +27.9
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
Claude Opus 4.5
41.8
gpt-oss-120b
13.9
SWE-Bench Verified (Bash Only)
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +48.4
SWE-Bench Verified (Bash Only) · a curated subset of SWE-bench where models fix real Python repository bugs using only bash commands, no agent frameworks.
Claude Opus 4.5
74.4
gpt-oss-120b
26.0
Terminal Bench
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +44.5
Terminal-Bench 2.0 · evaluates AI agents on real terminal-based coding tasks · writing scripts, debugging, running tests, and managing projects entirely through command-line interaction. Tests both code quality and terminal fluency. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 69.4%, demonstrating significant agentic terminal competence.
Claude Opus 4.5
63.1
gpt-oss-120b
18.7
VPCT
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +10.0
VPCT (Visual Pattern Completion Test) · tests visual reasoning and pattern recognition by having models complete visual sequences and transformations.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
0.0
Claude Opus 4.5
10.0
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Claude Opus 4.5 | gpt-oss-120b |
|---|---|---|---|
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall | 1374.0 | 1469.8 | 1351.6 |
Dtbench | 46.3 | 83.1 | 60.5 |
GPQA diamond Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs. | 38.7 | 81.4 | 67.7 |
Metr Time Horizons | 40.1 | 75.0 | 56.6 |
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills. | 6.4 | 86.1 | 88.9 |
Fortress | 13.0 | 13.6 | 8.2 |
SimpleBench SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking. | 13.0 | 54.4 | 6.5 |
WeirdML WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns. | 31.0 | 63.7 | 48.2 |
Aider polyglot Aider Polyglot · measures how well AI models can edit code across multiple programming languages using the Aider coding assistant framework. | 51.6 | — | 41.8 |
APEX-Agents APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments. | — | 18.4 | 4.4 |
Balrog Balrog · benchmarks AI agents on text-based adventure games, testing language understanding, strategic planning, and long-horizon reasoning. | 32.6 | 43.5 | — |
Chess Puzzles Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities. | — | 7.4 | 15.8 |
Cybench Cybench · evaluates AI on real Capture-The-Flag cybersecurity challenges, testing vulnerability analysis, exploitation, and security reasoning. | 17.5 | 82.0 | — |
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning. | 1.8 | 20.7 | — |
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private FrontierMath Tier 4 (Jul 2025) · the most challenging tier of frontier mathematics, containing problems that push the absolute limits of AI mathematical reasoning. | 0.0 | 4.2 | — |
GeoBench GeoBench · tests geographic knowledge and spatial reasoning across countries, landmarks, coordinates, and geopolitical understanding. | 62.0 | 75.0 | — |
GSO-Bench GSO-Bench · evaluates AI models on real-world open-source software engineering tasks, testing the ability to understand and resolve actual GitHub issues. | 4.6 | 26.5 | — |
HELM · GPQA | 56.5 | — | 68.4 |
HELM · IFEval | 85.6 | — | 83.6 |
HELM · MMLU-Pro | 77.7 | — | 79.5 |
HELM · Omni-MATH | 27.6 | — | 68.8 |
HELM · WildBench | 79.2 | — | 84.5 |
HLE HLE (Humanity's Last Exam) · a reasoning benchmark designed to be the hardest public evaluation of AI. Questions span mathematics, physics, philosophy, and logic · curated to be at or beyond the frontier of human expert capability. Tested with and without tool augmentation. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 46.9% without tools and 54.7% with tools · making it one of the few benchmarks where the top score is below 60%. | 0.0 | 21.4 | — |
Lech Mazur Writing Lech Mazur Writing · evaluates creative writing ability, assessing prose quality, narrative coherence, and stylistic sophistication. | 80.3 | — | 77.1 |
Lmca | — | 52.3 | 26.1 |
Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 14.1 | 0.0 |
SimpleQA Verified SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information. | — | 41.8 | 13.9 |
SWE-Bench Verified (Bash Only) SWE-Bench Verified (Bash Only) · a curated subset of SWE-bench where models fix real Python repository bugs using only bash commands, no agent frameworks. | — | 74.4 | 26.0 |
Terminal Bench Terminal-Bench 2.0 · evaluates AI agents on real terminal-based coding tasks · writing scripts, debugging, running tests, and managing projects entirely through command-line interaction. Tests both code quality and terminal fluency. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 69.4%, demonstrating significant agentic terminal competence. | — | 63.1 | 18.7 |
VPCT VPCT (Visual Pattern Completion Test) · tests visual reasoning and pattern recognition by having models complete visual sequences and transformations. | 0.0 | 10.0 | — |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | — | — | |
| $5.00 | $25.00 | 200K tokens (~100 books) | $100.00 | |
| $0.04 | $0.17 | 131K tokens (~66 books) | $0.70 |
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