AI Model Comparison

Claude Opus 4 vs OpenAI o3

Side-by-side comparison of pricing, context window, benchmarks, capabilities, and license. Every figure comes from the developer's own pages, last checked on ; each model's page lists its sources. A figure we could not source shows as a dash.

Quick spec sheet

PropertyClaude Opus 4OpenAI o3
ReleasedMay 22, 2025Apr 16, 2025
DeveloperAnthropicOpenAI
Typereasoningreasoning
Licenseproprietaryproprietary
Context window—200,000
Parameters——
Developer statusRetiredDeprecated
Input $/M tokens—$2.00
Output $/M tokens—$8.00

Bold green values indicate the winner on that dimension where comparison is meaningful (lower price wins; bigger context wins; more open license wins; newer date wins). Prices are the ones each developer lists today; a model it no longer prices has none.

Shared benchmarks

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4OpenAI o3
SWE-bench Verified72.5%Anthropic’s figure: all 500 tasks, without extended thinking.69.1%OpenAI’s figure, on 477 of the 500 tasks, as reported alongside GPT-5.

Each score is its developer's own published figure, run under that developer's own test setup, so the two are not always measured the same way. The conditions are under each figure, and neither is marked as ahead unless both were run under the same stated conditions.

Capability map

Only Claude Opus 4

No exclusive capabilities

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