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Claude Opus 5.5 vs GPT-5.5

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Winner summary

GPT-5.5 wins 1 of 2 shared benchmarks. Leads in knowledge.

Category leads
reasoning·Claude Opus 5.5knowledge·GPT-5.5
Hype vs Reality
Claude Opus 5.5
#3 by perf·#6 by attention
DESERVED
GPT-5.5
#2 by perf·#4 by attention
DESERVED
Best value
1.4x better value than GPT-5.5
Claude Opus 5.5
6.9 pts/$
$12.00/M
GPT-5.5
4.9 pts/$
$17.50/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 Opus 5.5GPT-5.5
ARC-AGI
Claude Opus 5.5 leads by +2.5
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
Claude Opus 5.5
97.5
GPT-5.5
95.0
GPQA diamond
GPT-5.5 leads by +6.1
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Claude Opus 5.5
87.5
GPT-5.5
93.6
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5GPT-5.5
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
97.595.0
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
87.593.6
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Anthropic logoClaude Opus 5.5$4.00$20.001.0M tokens (~500 books)$80.00
OpenAI logoGPT-5.5$5.00$30.00400K tokens (~200 books)$112.50