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GPT-5 Nano vs Claude 3.5 Sonnet

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Winner summary

GPT-5 Nano wins 11 of 11 shared benchmarks. Leads in math · knowledge · language.

Category leads
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Hype vs Reality
GPT-5 Nano
#114 by perf·no signal
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Claude 3.5 Sonnet
#129 by perf·no signal
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Best value
GPT-5 Nano
201.3 pts/$
$0.23/M
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
no price
Vendor risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$380.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
GPT-5 NanoClaude 3.5 Sonnet
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
GPT-5 Nano leads by +7.2
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
GPT-5 Nano
8.3
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
1.0
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private
GPT-5 Nano leads by +2.0
FrontierMath Tier 4 (Jul 2025) · the most challenging tier of frontier mathematics, containing problems that push the absolute limits of AI mathematical reasoning.
GPT-5 Nano
2.1
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
0.1
GPQA diamond
GPT-5 Nano leads by +20.5
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
GPT-5 Nano
59.3
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
38.7
HELM · GPQA
GPT-5 Nano leads by +11.4
GPT-5 Nano
67.9
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
56.5
HELM · IFEval
GPT-5 Nano leads by +7.6
GPT-5 Nano
93.2
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
85.6
HELM · MMLU-Pro
GPT-5 Nano leads by +0.1
GPT-5 Nano
77.8
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
77.7
HELM · Omni-MATH
GPT-5 Nano leads by +27.1
GPT-5 Nano
54.7
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
27.6
HELM · WildBench
GPT-5 Nano leads by +1.4
GPT-5 Nano
80.6
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
79.2
MATH level 5
GPT-5 Nano leads by +43.6
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
GPT-5 Nano
95.2
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
51.7
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
GPT-5 Nano leads by +74.7
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
GPT-5 Nano
81.1
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
6.4
WeirdML
GPT-5 Nano leads by +7.1
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
GPT-5 Nano
38.1
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
31.0
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoClaude 3.5 Sonnet
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.
8.31.0
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.
2.10.1
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
59.338.7
HELM · GPQA
67.956.5
HELM · IFEval
93.285.6
HELM · MMLU-Pro
77.877.7
HELM · Omni-MATH
54.727.6
HELM · WildBench
80.679.2
MATH level 5
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
95.251.7
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
81.16.4
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
38.131.0
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
OpenAI logoGPT-5 Nano$0.05$0.40400K tokens (~200 books)$1.38
Anthropic logoClaude 3.5 Sonnet
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