GPT-4o is 83.3% cheaper for input tokens ($2.50 vs. $15.00 per 1M tokens) and $10.00 vs. $75.00 for output tokens (6.0x cost advantage). In terms of operational performance, GPT-4o delivers lower response latency at 280ms TTFT (640ms faster than Claude 4 Opus) with 100 vs. 46 tok/s throughput. Claude 4 Opus leads coding evaluations at 77.2% SWE-bench Verified vs. 48.0% for GPT-4o and 87.1% vs. 53.6% on GPQA Diamond.
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Verified Performance & Unit Economics Delta (12 Dimensions)
Daily synchronized metrics across token pricing, prompt cache economics, latency, throughput, and 5 capability benchmarks.
Metric / Dimension
Claude 4 Opus
GPT-4o
Net Delta / Advantage
Input Cost / 1M Tokens
$15.00
$2.50
GPT-4o is 6.0x cheaper
Output Cost / 1M Tokens
$75.00
$10.00
GPT-4o (86.7% lower)
Prompt Cache Read / 1M
$1.500
$1.250
GPT-4o is 1.2x cheaper
Prompt Cache Write / 1M
$18.75
$2.50
GPT-4o is 7.5x cheaper
Context Window (Max Output)
205k (64k out)
131k (16k out)
Claude 4 Opus (1.6x larger context)
Avg TTFT Response Latency
920ms
280ms
GPT-4o (640ms faster)
Generation Speed (Throughput)
46 tok/s
100 tok/s
GPT-4o (+54 tok/s faster)
SWE-bench Verified (Coding)
77.2%
48%
Claude 4 Opus (+29.2% lead)
GPQA Diamond (PhD STEM)
87.1%
53.6%
Claude 4 Opus (+33.5% lead)
MMLU-Pro (Multi-Discipline)
91.8%
75.9%
Claude 4 Opus (+15.9% lead)
MATH-500 (Quantitative Logic)
98.1%
76.6%
Claude 4 Opus (+21.5% lead)
Inference Value Score (IVR)
43.6 / 100
47.6 / 100
GPT-4o (+4 pts)
Interactive Monthly Token Economics & ROI Forecaster
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GPT-4o is cheaper at $2.50/1M input tokens ($10.00/1M output) compared to $15.00/1M input ($75.00/1M output) for Claude 4 Opus.
Which model has lower TTFT latency and higher tok/s throughput: Claude 4 Opus or GPT-4o?
GPT-4o delivers faster first-token latency at 280ms TTFT (100 tok/s throughput) compared to 920ms TTFT (46 tok/s) for Claude 4 Opus.
How do Claude 4 Opus and GPT-4o compare on SWE-bench coding and GPQA Diamond reasoning?
On SWE-bench Verified software engineering, Claude 4 Opus scores 77.2% versus 48% for GPT-4o. On GPQA Diamond graduate-level STEM reasoning, Claude 4 Opus scores 87.1% versus 53.6% for GPT-4o (and 98.1% vs 76.6% on MATH-500).
When should you choose Claude 4 Opus?
Choose Claude 4 Opus (Anthropic) for mission-critical R&D, long-horizon autonomous coding tasks, complex theorem proving, and executive strategic synthesis — offering a 204k context window, 920ms TTFT, and $15.00/1M input pricing ($1.500/1M cached reads).
When should you choose GPT-4o?
Choose GPT-4o (OpenAI) for general enterprise assistants, multimodal customer support, and structured JSON output pipelines — offering a 131k context window, 280ms TTFT, and $2.50/1M input pricing ($1.250/1M cached reads).
