Claude Opus 4.6 vs GPT 5.4

Name: GPT 5.4
Brand: Azure OpenAI
Price: 2.500000 USD

Claude Opus 4.6 vs GPT 5.4: GPT 5.4 is cheaper by 50% on average. Claude Opus 4.6 from Azure AI Foundry (200,000-token context, reasoning, tool calls) vs. GPT 5.4 from Azure OpenAI (1,050,000-token context, reasoning, 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.

Input tokens / request3,000

01,050,000

Output tokens / request400

0128,000

Requests / day5,000

01,000,000

Claude Opus 4.6

Azure AI Foundry

$3,805/mo

Input $5.00/M · Output $25.00/M

GPT 5.4Cheaper

Azure OpenAI

$2,055/mo

Input $2.50/M · Output $15.00/M

At this workload, GPT 5.4 is 46% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.6 — a savings of $1,750/month ($21,002/year).

Production recipe — Agent Command Center

strategy: cost-optimized
primary:
  model: gpt-5-4
  provider: azure-openai
fallback:
  model: claude-opus-4-6
  provider: azure-ai-foundry
shadow: { sample_rate: 0.05 }   # mirror 5% of traffic to compare quality live

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	Claude Opus 4.6 Azure AI Foundry	GPT 5.4 Azure OpenAI
Input price	$5.00/M	$2.50/M
Output price	$25.00/M	$15.00/M
Context window	200,000	1,050,000
Max output	128,000	128,000
Function calling	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio input	—	—
Reasoning	✓	✓
Prompt caching	✓	✓
Structured output	✓	✓
Pricing verified	May 12, 2026	May 12, 2026