Head-to-head comparison across 2benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
42
GPT-5.4
93
Verified leaderboard positions: Claude 3.5 Sonnet unranked · GPT-5.4 #4
Pick GPT-5.4 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 3.5 Sonnet only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
Coding
+8.7 difference
Knowledge
+33.4 difference
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
GPT-5.4
$null / $null
$2.5 / $15
N/A
74 t/s
N/A
151.79s
200K
1.05M
Pick GPT-5.4 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 3.5 Sonnet only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
GPT-5.4 is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 93 to 42. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
GPT-5.4's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 92.8 against 59.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 59.4% to 92.8%.
GPT-5.4 is the reasoning model in the pair, while Claude 3.5 Sonnet is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. GPT-5.4 gives you the larger context window at 1.05M, compared with 200K for Claude 3.5 Sonnet.
GPT-5.4 is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 93 to 42. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 59.4% and 92.8%.
GPT-5.4 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 92.8 versus 59.4. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.4 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 57.7 versus 49. Claude 3.5 Sonnet stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
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