Compare / Claude Opus 4.8 vs GPT-5

Claude Opus 4.8 vs GPT-5

23 results from 5 sources that measured both models. Each row is in the source's own units; there is no overall winner.

Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic · profile
GPT-5
OpenAI · profile
Results compared
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BenchmarkMetricClaude Opus 4.8GPT-5
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedOverallArena rating 1,1951,183
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedOverallArena rating 1,4691,421
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedBusiness, management and financeArena rating 1,4901,413
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedCreative writingArena rating 1,4671,373
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedExpert promptsArena rating 1,5251,460
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedInstruction followingArena rating 1,4911,410
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedOverallArena rating 1,4801,435
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedWriting, literature and languageArena rating 1,4741,397
Artificial AnalysisreportedArtificial Analysis Coding Indexindex score 74.337.8
Artificial AnalysisreportedArtificial Analysis Intelligence Indexindex score 41.823.0
Artificial AnalysisreportedGPQA Diamond% of questions 92.0%85.4%
Artificial AnalysisreportedHumanity's Last Exam% of questions 48.7%28.5%
Artificial AnalysisreportedIFBench% of instructions 62.2%73.1%
Artificial AnalysisreportedLong-context reasoning (AA-LCR)% of questions 77.7%78.2%
Artificial AnalysisreportedTerminal-Bench 2.1% of tasks 84.6%35.2%
Artificial AnalysisreportedTerminal-Bench Hard% of tasks 58.3%37.9%
Artificial AnalysisreportedΤ-bench banking% of tasks 34.2%22.1%
Artificial AnalysisreportedΤ²-bench telecom% of tasks 94.4%86.5%
Remote Labor IndexreportedProjects done to client standard% of projects 8.3%1.7%
SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI)reportedCorrect answers% of questions 53.0%50.1%
UGI LeaderboardreportedRequested-length error% off the requested word count 6.0%58.0%
UGI LeaderboardreportedStyle adherencescore from 0 to 1 0.400.39
UGI LeaderboardreportedWriting scorescore out of 100 65.953.5

Bold green marks the better value on that metric. Where a source reports ranges that overlap, the difference may not be meaningful; see the benchmark page for ranges.