Claude Opus 4.7 (2026-04-16) vs GPT 5.2

Claude Opus 4.7 (2026-04-16) vs GPT 5.2: GPT 5.2 is cheaper by 48%. Claude Opus 4.7 (2026-04-16) from Anthropic (1,000,000-token context) vs. GPT 5.2 from OpenAI (272,000-token context). 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
01,000,000
400
0128,000
5,000
01,000,000
Anthropic
$3,805/mo
Input $5.00/M · Output $25.00/M
GPT 5.2Cheaper
OpenAI
$1,651/mo
Input $1.75/M · Output $14.00/M
At this workload, GPT 5.2 is 57% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.7 (2026-04-16) — a savings of $2,153/month ($25,841/year).
Production recipe — Agent Command Center
strategy: cost-optimized
primary:
  model: gpt-5-2
  provider: openai
fallback:
  model: claude-opus-4-7-20260416
  provider: anthropic
shadow: { sample_rate: 0.05 }   # mirror 5% of traffic to compare quality live
Claude Opus 4.7 (2026-04-16) GPT 5.2
Input price $5.00/M $1.75/M
Output price $25.00/M $14.00/M
Context window 1,000,000 272,000
Max output 128,000 128,000
Function calling
Vision
Audio input
Reasoning
Prompt caching
Structured output
Pricing verified May 16, 2026 May 16, 2026
Cheaper option
~48% cheaper than the priciest in this pair
Larger context
1,000,000 tokens
More capabilities
5 of 6 capability flags advertised

Benchmark comparison

Side-by-side public benchmark scores. Greener bar = winner.

Chatbot Arena ELOgeneral
Claude Opus 4.7 (2026-04-16)
GPT 5.2
1,477
AIME 2025math
Claude Opus 4.7 (2026-04-16)
GPT 5.2
100.0%
GPQA Diamondreasoning
Claude Opus 4.7 (2026-04-16)
GPT 5.2
92.4%
MMLUgeneral
Claude Opus 4.7 (2026-04-16)
GPT 5.2
89.6%
ARC-AGIreasoning
Claude Opus 4.7 (2026-04-16)
GPT 5.2
86.2%
SWE-bench Verifiedagent
Claude Opus 4.7 (2026-04-16)
GPT 5.2
80.0%
MMMU-Promultimodal
Claude Opus 4.7 (2026-04-16)
GPT 5.2
79.5%
SWE-benchagent
Claude Opus 4.7 (2026-04-16)
GPT 5.2
55.6%
ARC-AGI-2reasoning
Claude Opus 4.7 (2026-04-16)
GPT 5.2
52.9%
FrontierMathmath
Claude Opus 4.7 (2026-04-16)
GPT 5.2
40.3%
Humanity's Last Examreasoning
Claude Opus 4.7 (2026-04-16)
GPT 5.2
34.5%