Claude 4 Opus vs GPT-4

API pricing, context window and capabilities for Claude 4 Opus and GPT-4, side by side. Prices are the cheapest serving route per 1M tokens, verified against LiteLLM and OpenRouter.

Verdict

computed from the published numbers

Claude 4 Opus wins on price, on intelligence and on context window. Benchmark data is unavailable for one or both models.

Price

Claude 4 Opus

Coding

Not called

Intelligence

Claude 4 Opus

Context window

Claude 4 Opus

Key takeaways

who wins on what, from the published numbers

Claude 4 Opus wins

Cheaper input ($5.00 vs $30.00 /1M)
Cheaper output ($25.00 vs $60.00 /1M)
Larger context window (200K vs 8K)
Higher max output (200K vs 4K)
Supports vision
Has reasoning mode
Supports structured output

GPT-4 wins

No clear edge on the tracked metrics.

Cheaper overall

Claude 4 Opus

$5.00 + $25.00 /1M

Larger context

Claude 4 Opus

200K

More providers

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Pricing & specs

cheapest serving route · per 1M tokens

	Claude 4 Opus	GPT-4
Input $/1M	$5.00 best	$30.00
Output $/1M	$25.00 best	$60.00
Context window	200K best	8K
Max output	200K best	4K
Serving providers	3	3
Released	n/a	2023-11-06

Benchmarks

Artificial Analysis indices, side by side

	Claude 4 Opus	GPT-4
Intelligence	25.5 best	7.0
Coding	Not available	13.1
GPQA Diamond	70%	Not available
Output speed	Not available	42 t/s
Latency (TTFT)	Not available	0.98s

Cost calculator

choose a serving route for each side

Claude 4 Opus · route

GPT-4 · route

Input tokens / month

Output tokens / month

Claude 4 Opus

via Snowflake

$50

GPT-4

via OpenAI

$210

Capabilities

feature support, side by side

Feature	Claude 4 Opus	GPT-4
Vision	✓	—
Tool use	✓	✓
Reasoning	✓	—
Audio	—	—
Prompt caching	✓	✓
Structured output	✓	—
Web search	—	—

Related comparisons

Compare Claude 4 Opus with

Claude 4 Sonnet Gemini 2.5 Pro o3 Claude 3.7 Sonnet Claude 3 Opus Claude Opus 4.1 GPT-4.1 GPT 4.5 Preview GPT-4o GPT-5

Compare GPT-4 with

GPT-4o GPT-4o-mini Claude 3 Opus

Frequently asked questions

Which is cheaper, Claude 4 Opus or GPT-4?

Claude 4 Opus is cheaper for input ($5.00 vs $30.00 per 1M tokens). Claude 4 Opus is cheaper for output ($25.00 vs $60.00 per 1M tokens).

What is the context window difference between Claude 4 Opus and GPT-4?

Claude 4 Opus has a 200K-token context window and GPT-4 has 8K tokens, so Claude 4 Opus can take a larger prompt.

How do Claude 4 Opus and GPT-4 compare on benchmarks?

On the tracked Artificial Analysis indices, Claude 4 Opus leads on intelligence.

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