o1 vs Claude Opus 4
Too close to call on our weighted score (o1 49, Claude Opus 4 48). The right pick depends on what you value most.
OpenAIo1
49/100- ECI141.9
- Price$15.00 / $60.00
- Context200K
AnthropicClaude Opus 4
48/100- ECI142.7
- Price$15.00 / $75.00
- Context200K
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Too close to call
It is close. Our weighted score puts them within 1 points (o1 49/100, Claude Opus 4 48/100), so choose by what matters most for your work: Claude Opus 4 for raw capability and o1 on price. The score weighs capability 50%, price 25%, inputs & features 15%, context window 10%.
- CapabilityClaude Opus 4Capabilities Index (ECI): Claude Opus 4 142.7 · o1 141.9
- Lowest priceo1o1 $26.25 · Claude Opus 4 $30.00 per 1M tokens (3:1 blend)
- Longest contextAbout the sameo1 200,000 · Claude Opus 4 200,000 tokens
- Widest inputsSame inputso1: Text, Images, PDFs · Claude Opus 4: Text, Images, PDFs
- Self-hostingNo open weightsBoth are available only through APIs
| Measure | Weight | o1 | Claude Opus 4 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CapabilityCapabilities Index (ECI) | 50% | 68 | 69 |
| Price | 25% | 0 | 0 |
| Inputs & features | 15% | 80 | 70 |
| Context window | 10% | 32 | 32 |
| Overall | 100% | 49/100 | 48/100 |
Every spec in one table
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| Specification | o1OpenAI | Claude Opus 4Anthropic |
|---|---|---|
| Capability | ||
| Capabilities Index (ECI) | 141.9 | 142.7 (best) |
| ECI rank | #92 of 148 | #87 of 148 (best) |
| GPQA DiamondGraduate-level science questions | 76.8% (best) | 76.3% |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1–3Research-level mathematics | 14.7% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025Competition mathematics | 73.3% (best) | 64.4% |
| SWE-bench VerifiedFixing real GitHub issues | — | 70.7% |
| SimpleQA VerifiedShort factual questions | 41.1% | — |
| Price per million tokens | ||
| Input | $15.00 | $15.00 |
| Output | $60.00 (best) | $75.00 |
| Cached input | $7.50 | — |
| Blended (3:1) | $26.25 (best) | $30.00 |
| Long-context rate | Same rate | Same rate |
| Price source | Official OpenAI API | Median of 5 providers |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 200,000 tokens | 200,000 tokens |
| Max output | 100,000 tokens (best) | 32,000 tokens |
| Inputs and features | ||
| Text | Yes | Yes |
| Images | Yes | Yes |
| PDFs | Yes | Yes |
| Audio | No | No |
| Video | No | No |
| Reasoning | Yeslow · medium · high | Yes |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes | No |
| Availability | ||
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| API model ID | o1 | — |
| API providers | 9 (best) | 5 |
| Released | Dec 5, 2024 | May 22, 2025 |
| Knowledge cutoff | Sep 2023 | Mar 31, 2025 |
What would a month cost?
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- o1$270.00
- Claude Opus 4$300.00
Which should you choose?
Which is better: o1 or Claude Opus 4?
It is close. Our weighted score puts them within 1 points (o1 49/100, Claude Opus 4 48/100), so choose by what matters most for your work: Claude Opus 4 for raw capability and o1 on price. The score weighs capability 50%, price 25%, inputs & features 15%, context window 10%.
Which is cheaper, o1 or Claude Opus 4?
o1 is cheaper at $15.00 input / $60.00 output per million tokens (official OpenAI API price). Claude Opus 4 costs $15.00 input / $75.00 output per million tokens (median across 5 API providers). At a typical mix of three input tokens to one output token, that is $26.25 per million tokens for o1 versus $30.00 for Claude Opus 4 (1.1× as much).
Which scores higher on benchmarks?
Claude Opus 4 scores higher on the Capabilities Index (ECI): Claude Opus 4 142.7 (#87 of 148) and o1 141.9 (#92 of 148). The confidence ranges of the top two overlap (140.2–144.2 vs 139.7–143.1), so treat the gap as small. On individual benchmarks: GPQA Diamond — o1 76.8%, Claude Opus 4 76.3%; OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025 — o1 73.3%, Claude Opus 4 64.4%.
Which is better for coding?
There are no published SWE-bench Verified results for o1 yet, so there is no like-for-like coding score. On overall capability, Claude Opus 4 leads, which tends to carry over to coding, but test on your own codebase. Both support tool calling for agent workflows.
Which has the bigger context window?
o1 and Claude Opus 4 share the same 200,000-token context window. Maximum output per response: o1 up to 100,000, Claude Opus 4 up to 32,000 tokens.
Which can read images, PDFs, audio or video?
o1 accepts text, images and PDFs; Claude Opus 4 accepts text, images and PDFs. They handle the same number of input types.
Are any of these open source?
No. o1 and Claude Opus 4 are proprietary and only available through APIs and apps.
Which is newer?
Claude Opus 4 is the newest, released May 22, 2025. o1 came out Dec 5, 2024. Knowledge cutoff: o1 Sep 2023, Claude Opus 4 Mar 31, 2025.
How do you decide the winner?
Each model gets a 0–100 score on capability (50%, independent benchmark results); price (25%, blended price per million tokens (3 input : 1 output), log scale); inputs & features (15%, image, PDF, audio and video input, tool calling, structured output and reasoning); context window (10%, maximum tokens per request, log scale). Dimensions missing for any model are dropped and the remaining weights rescaled, so every model is judged on the same evidence. Specs and prices come from public model listings and the labs’ own API pages; capability scores come from independent benchmark runs. Data updated Oct 4, 2026.
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