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Claude 3 Opus vs GPT-4o-mini

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Winner summary

Claude 3 Opus wins 8 of 10 shared benchmarks. Leads in knowledge · general · reasoning.

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Hype vs Reality
Claude 3 Opus
#261 by perf·no signal
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GPT-4o-mini
#254 by perf·no signal
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Best value
Claude 3 Opus
n/a
no price
GPT-4o-mini
77.9 pts/$
$0.38/M
Vendor risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
Claude 3 OpusGPT-4o-mini
Chess Puzzles
Claude 3 Opus leads by +0.0
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
Claude 3 Opus
0.0
GPT-4o-mini
0.0
Dtbench
Claude 3 Opus leads by +12.0
Claude 3 Opus
36.0
GPT-4o-mini
24.0
GPQA diamond
Claude 3 Opus leads by +12.6
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Claude 3 Opus
29.6
GPT-4o-mini
17.0
Lmca
Claude 3 Opus leads by +7.8
Claude 3 Opus
20.0
GPT-4o-mini
12.2
MATH level 5
GPT-4o-mini leads by +15.2
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
Claude 3 Opus
37.5
GPT-4o-mini
52.6
MMLU
Claude 3 Opus leads by +3.7
Massive Multitask Language Understanding · 57 subjects spanning STEM, humanities, social sciences, and more. The standard benchmark for broad knowledge.
Claude 3 Opus
79.5
GPT-4o-mini
75.7
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
GPT-4o-mini leads by +2.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Claude 3 Opus
4.6
GPT-4o-mini
6.8
SimpleBench
Claude 3 Opus leads by +8.2
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
Claude 3 Opus
8.2
GPT-4o-mini
0.0
SimpleQA Verified
Claude 3 Opus leads by +4.3
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
Claude 3 Opus
12.6
GPT-4o-mini
8.3
WeirdML
Claude 3 Opus leads by +7.5
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
Claude 3 Opus
19.2
GPT-4o-mini
11.8
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGPT-4o-mini
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
0.00.0
Dtbench
36.024.0
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
29.617.0
Lmca
20.012.2
MATH level 5
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
37.552.6
MMLU
Massive Multitask Language Understanding · 57 subjects spanning STEM, humanities, social sciences, and more. The standard benchmark for broad knowledge.
79.575.7
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
4.66.8
SimpleBench
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
8.20.0
SimpleQA Verified
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
12.68.3
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
19.211.8
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Anthropic logoClaude 3 Opus————
OpenAI logoGPT-4o-mini$0.15$0.60128K tokens (~64 books)$2.62