Claude 3 Opus vs GPT-4 Comparison

Comparing Claude 3 Opus and GPT-4 across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.

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Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

7 benchmarks

Claude 3 Opus outperforms in 7 benchmarks (DROP, GPQA, HellaSwag, HumanEval, MATH, MGSM, MMLU), while GPT-4 is better at 0 benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Claude 3 Opus costs less

For input processing, Claude 3 Opus ($15.00/1M tokens) is 2.0x cheaper than GPT-4 ($30.00/1M tokens).

For output processing, Claude 3 Opus ($75.00/1M tokens) is 1.3x more expensive than GPT-4 ($60.00/1M tokens).

In conclusion, GPT-4 is more expensive than Claude 3 Opus.*

* Using a 3:1 ratio of input to output tokens

Lowest available price from all providers

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Claude 3 Opus

Input tokens$15.00

Output tokens$75.00

Best providerAnthropic

GPT-4

Input tokens$30.00

Output tokens$60.00

Best providerAzure

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Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Claude 3 Opus accepts 200,000 input tokens compared to GPT-4's 32,768 tokens. Claude 3 Opus can generate longer responses up to 200,000 tokens, while GPT-4 is limited to 32,768 tokens.

Claude 3 Opus

Input200,000 tokens

Output200,000 tokens

GPT-4

Input32,768 tokens

Output32,768 tokens

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Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

Both Claude 3 Opus and GPT-4 support multimodal inputs.

They are both capable of processing various types of data, offering versatility in application.

Claude 3 Opus

Text

Images

Audio

Video

GPT-4

Text

Images

Audio

Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Both models are licensed under proprietary licenses.

Both models have usage restrictions defined by their respective organizations.

Claude 3 Opus

Proprietary

Closed source

GPT-4

Proprietary

Closed source

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude 3 Opus was released on 2024-02-29, while GPT-4 was released on 2023-06-13.

Claude 3 Opus is 9 months newer than GPT-4.

Claude 3 Opus

Feb 29, 2024

2.0 years ago

8mo newer

GPT-4

Jun 13, 2023

2.8 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

GPT-4 has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2022-12-31, while Claude 3 Opus's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm GPT-4's training data extends to 2022-12-31, but cannot make a direct comparison without Claude 3 Opus's cutoff date.

Claude 3 Opus

—

GPT-4

Dec 2022

Provider Availability

Claude 3 Opus is available from Anthropic, Bedrock, Google. GPT-4 is available from Azure, OpenAI. The availability of providers can affect quality of the model and reliability.