Claude vs GPT

Premium AI face-off. Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 / Sonnet 4 vs OpenAI's GPT-5.4. Which is better for your use case?

Try both free via AIPower

Claude (Anthropic)

Opus 4.6 + Sonnet 4 · Since 2022

  • ✓ Best coding model (Sonnet: 93.7% HumanEval)
  • ✓ Best at following complex instructions
  • ✓ Strong tool-use / function calling
  • ✓ 200K context standard
  • ✓ Safer outputs, less hallucination

GPT (OpenAI)

GPT-5.4 · Since 2022

  • ✓ Latest flagship (GPT-5.4, Q1 2026)
  • ✓ Best general knowledge
  • ✓ Huge ecosystem (plugins, CustomGPTs)
  • ✓ 272K context on GPT-5.4
  • ✓ Strongest vision/multimodal

Benchmark comparison

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Claude Sonnet 4GPT-5.4Winner
MMLU (general)92.8%90.1%94.2%GPT-5.4
HumanEval (code)93.4%93.7%91.0%Claude Sonnet
MATH-50091.2%87.3%94.5%GPT-5.4
Tool use (Berkeley)87.5%85.8%80.3%Claude Opus
Creative writing9.1/108.5/108.7/10Claude Opus
Instruction following96.2%94.8%92.1%Claude Opus

Pricing (via AIPower)

Claude Opus 4.6

$6.50

/ M input

$32.50

/ M output

Claude Sonnet 4

$3.90

/ M input

$19.50

/ M output

GPT-5.4

$3.25

/ M input

$19.50

/ M output

When to pick which

Pick Claude if...

  • • You're building coding agents (Sonnet 4 beats GPT-5.4)
  • • You need reliable tool calling in production
  • • You care about creative writing quality
  • • You need long, complex instruction following
  • • Safety and low hallucination matter

Pick GPT-5.4 if...

  • • You need latest world knowledge (2025+ events)
  • • You need strong math/science (MATH-500 leader)
  • • You're using vision / multimodal
  • • You need the largest context window (272K)
  • • You want the "default" choice for general tasks

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Via AIPower, route simple queries to DeepSeek V3 ($0.34/M — rivals GPT-4o), reserve Claude Opus / GPT-5.4 for what actually needs them.

# Simple tasks — DeepSeek V3 (91% cheaper than GPT-5.4)
client.chat.completions.create(model="deepseek/deepseek-chat", ...)

# Complex code — Claude Sonnet
client.chat.completions.create(model="anthropic/claude-sonnet", ...)

# Deep analysis — GPT-5.4 or Claude Opus
client.chat.completions.create(model="openai/gpt-5.4", ...)

# Or auto-route
client.chat.completions.create(model="auto-best", ...)  # picks premium
client.chat.completions.create(model="auto", ...)       # balanced

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