Claude Opus 4.7 vs GPT-5
Claude Opus 4.7 vs GPT-5: GPT-5 is cheaper by 75% on average. Claude Opus 4.7 from Azure AI Foundry (200,000-token context, reasoning, tool calls) vs. GPT-5 from OpenAI (272,000-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.
3,000
0272,000
400
0128,000
5,000
01,000,000
At this workload, GPT-5 is 69% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.7 — a savings of $2,625/month ($31,503/year).
Production recipe — Agent Command Center
strategy: cost-optimized
primary:
model: gpt-5
provider: openai
fallback:
model: claude-opus-4-7
provider: azure-ai-foundry
shadow: { sample_rate: 0.05 } # mirror 5% of traffic to compare quality live| Claude Opus 4.7 | GPT-5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $5.00/M | $1.25/M |
| Output price | $25.00/M | $10.00/M |
| Context window | 200,000 | 272,000 |
| Max output | 128,000 | 128,000 |
| Function calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio input | — | — |
| Reasoning | ✓ | ✓ |
| Prompt caching | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pricing verified | May 12, 2026 | May 12, 2026 |
Benchmark comparison
Side-by-side public benchmark scores. Greener bar = winner.
Chatbot Arena ELOgeneral
Claude Opus 4.7
1,491
GPT-5
1,450
GPQA Diamondreasoning
Claude Opus 4.7
94.2%
GPT-5
87.3%
MMMUmultimodal
Claude Opus 4.7
91.5%
GPT-5
84.2%
SWE-bench Verifiedagent
Claude Opus 4.7
87.6%
GPT-5
74.9%
Humanity's Last Examreasoning⚠ different settings
Claude Opus 4.7
46.9%
GPT-5
42.0%