# Claude Opus 4.8 vs GPT-5.5

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-opus-4-8-vs-gpt-5-5
- Last updated: October 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 27
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Opus 4.8 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GPT-5.5 only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Claude Opus 4.8 leads overall 69.12 to 67.79.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 75.4 for Claude Opus 4.8 and 93.3 for GPT-5.5.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2 in Reasoning, with scores of 72.1% and 85%.
- Claude Opus 4.8 is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Opus 4.8 | GPT-5.5 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Overall Score | 69.12 | 67.79 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 40 | 41 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $5.00 / $25.00 | $5.00 / $30.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Claude Opus 4.8
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 61.6 (Supported · #20/123)
- GPT-5.5 public-lane score: 60.7 (Supported · #22/123)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | GPT-5.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | 21.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 74.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 84.3% | 84.4% | GPT-5.5 |
| DeepSearchQA | 93.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | 83.4% | 78.7% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| Finance Agent v2 | 53.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 82.2% | 75.3% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| Toolathlon | 59.9% | 55.6% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| Gert Labs | 72.97% | 72.93% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| ResearchClawBench | 21.1% | 17.0% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 20.6% | 13.0% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 71.9% | 76.4% | GPT-5.5 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 82% | Coming soon |
| CyberGym | Coming soon | 81.8% | Coming soon |
| τ²-bench results | Coming soon | 98% | Coming soon |
| JobBench | Coming soon | 42.7% | Coming soon |
| ExploitGym | Coming soon | 13.4% | Coming soon |
| ApprenticeBench | Coming soon | 20% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: GPT-5.5
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 60.8 (Supported · #19/146)
- GPT-5.5 public-lane score: 62.1 (Supported · #15/146)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | GPT-5.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 88.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 69.2% | 58.6% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| SWE Multilingual | 84.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multimodal | 38.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 74.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| cursorBench31 | 58.4% | 59.2% | GPT-5.5 |
| CursorBench 3.2 | 62.3% | 58.4% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Main | 46.5% | 43.0% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 87.8% | 85.3% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 88.6% | 82.6% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| PostTrainBench v1.1 | 32.9% | 27.2% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 82.0% | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | Coming soon | 69.85% | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | Coming soon | 84.7% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: GPT-5.5
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 62.9 (#24/28)
- GPT-5.5 public-lane score: 69.7 (#20/28)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | GPT-5.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 72.1% | 85% | GPT-5.5 |
| ARC-AGI-3 | 1.5% | 0.4% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 92.50% | 95.00% | GPT-5.5 |
| MRCR v2 64K-128K | Coming soon | 83.1% | Coming soon |
| MRCR v2 128K-256K | Coming soon | 87.5% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 91.2 (#5/54)
- GPT-5.5 public-lane score: 75.5 (#23/54)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | GPT-5.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| OfficeQA Pro | 66.2% | 54.1% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| ScreenSpot Pro | 87.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | 89.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | 80.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 81.2% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro w/ Python | Coming soon | 83.2% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Tie
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 70.7 (Supported · #14/177)
- GPT-5.5 public-lane score: 70.6 (Supported · #15/177)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | GPT-5.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 93.6% | 93.6% | Tie |
| GPQA-D | 93.6% | 93.6% | Tie |
| HLE | 57.9% | 52.2% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| HLE w/o tools | 49.8% | 41.4% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 92.4% | 93.2% | GPT-5.5 |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 89.6% | 88.1% | Claude Opus 4.8 |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: Coming soon
- GPT-5.5 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | GPT-5.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| INCLUDE | 87.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 75.4 (#61/127)
- GPT-5.5 public-lane score: 93.3 (#8/127)

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.8 public-lane score: 65.7 (#2/7)
- GPT-5.5 public-lane score: 69.9 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | GPT-5.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| USAMO 2026 | 96.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 47.241% | 51.700% | GPT-5.5 |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 31.250% | 35.400% | GPT-5.5 |
| FrontierMath (legacy) | Coming soon | 51.7% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude Opus 4.8 or GPT-5.5?

Claude Opus 4.8 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5?

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 75.4 for Claude Opus 4.8 and 93.3 for GPT-5.5.

### How many benchmarks does Claude Opus 4.8 cover on BenchLM?

Claude Opus 4.8 currently has 40 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does GPT-5.5 cover on BenchLM?

GPT-5.5 currently has 41 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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