Claude 3 Opus (2024-02-29) vs GPT-4o
Claude 3 Opus (2024-02-29) vs GPT-4o: GPT-4o is cheaper by 87% on average. Claude 3 Opus (2024-02-29) from Anthropic (200,000-token context, tool calls) vs. GPT-4o from Azure OpenAI (128,000-token context, tool calls). Use Agent Command Center to A/B both in shadow mode and pick the winner per workload.
Side-by-side cost
Live workload comparison
Same workload run through both models. The cheaper one is highlighted.
3,000
0200,000
400
016,384
5,000
01,000,000
At this workload, GPT-4o is 85% cheaper than Claude 3 Opus (2024-02-29) — a savings of $9,664/month ($115,967/year).
Production recipe — Agent Command Center
strategy: cost-optimized
primary:
model: gpt-4o
provider: azure-openai
fallback:
model: claude-3-opus-20240229
provider: anthropic
shadow: { sample_rate: 0.05 } # mirror 5% of traffic to compare quality live| Claude 3 Opus (2024-02-29) | GPT-4o | |
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $15.00/M | $2.50/M |
| Output price | $75.00/M | $10.00/M |
| Context window | 200,000 | 128,000 |
| Max output | 4,096 | 16,384 |
| Function calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio input | — | — |
| Reasoning | — | — |
| Prompt caching | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pricing verified | May 12, 2026 | May 12, 2026 |
Benchmark comparison
Side-by-side public benchmark scores. Greener bar = winner.
Chatbot Arena ELOgeneral
Claude 3 Opus (2024-02-29)
1,248
GPT-4o
1,265
HumanEvalcode
Claude 3 Opus (2024-02-29)
84.9%
GPT-4o
90.2%
MMLUgeneral
Claude 3 Opus (2024-02-29)
86.8%
GPT-4o
88.7%
MMMUmultimodal
Claude 3 Opus (2024-02-29)
59.4%
GPT-4o
69.1%
GPQAreasoning
Claude 3 Opus (2024-02-29)
50.4%
GPT-4o
53.6%