Claude 4.1 Opus (Reasoning) vs o3-pro

Comparing 2 AI models · 5 benchmarks · Anthropic, OpenAI

Most Affordable
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Claude 4.1 Opus (Reasoning)
$15.00/1M
Highest Intelligence
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o3-pro
84.5% GPQA
Best for Coding
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Claude 4.1 Opus (Reasoning)
46.1 Coding Index
Price Difference
1.3x
input cost range

Composite Indices

Intelligence, Coding, Math

Standard Benchmarks

Academic and industry benchmarks

Benchmark Winners

5 tests
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Claude 4.1 Opus (Reasoning)

4
  • MMLU Pro
  • HLE
  • LiveCodeBench
  • AIME 2025
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o3-pro

1
  • GPQA
Metric
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Pricing
Per 1M tokens
Input Cost $15.00/1M $20.00/1M
Output Cost $75.00/1M $80.00/1M
Blended Cost 3:1 input/output ratio
$30.00/1M $35.00/1M
Specifications
Organization Model creator
Anthropic OpenAI
Release Date Launch date
Aug 5, 2025 Jun 10, 2025
Performance & Speed
Throughput Output speed
42.4 tok/s 55.3 tok/s
Time to First Token (TTFT) Initial response delay
1449ms 36035ms
Latency Time to first answer token
48641ms 36035ms
Composite Indices
Intelligence Index Overall reasoning capability
59.3 65.3
Coding Index Programming ability
46.1
Math Index Mathematical reasoning
80.3
Standard Benchmarks
GPQA Graduate-level reasoning
80.9% 84.5%
MMLU Pro Advanced knowledge
88.0%
HLE Hard language evaluation
11.9%
LiveCodeBench Real-world coding tasks
65.4%
MATH 500 Mathematical problems
AIME 2025 Advanced math competition
80.3%
AIME (Original) Math olympiad problems
SciCode Scientific code generation
40.9%
LCR Code review capability
66.3%
IFBench Instruction-following
55.4%
TAU-bench v2 Tool use & agentic tasks
71.4%
TerminalBench Hard CLI command generation
32.1%

Key Takeaways

Claude 4.1 Opus (Reasoning) offers the best value at $15.00/1M, making it ideal for high-volume applications and cost-conscious projects.

o3-pro leads in reasoning capabilities with a 84.5% GPQA score, excelling at complex analytical tasks and problem-solving.

Claude 4.1 Opus (Reasoning) achieves a 46.1 coding index, making it the top choice for software development and code generation tasks.

All models support context windows of ∞+ tokens, suitable for processing lengthy documents and maintaining extended conversations.

When to Choose Each Model

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Claude 4.1 Opus (Reasoning)

  • Cost-sensitive applications
  • High-volume processing
  • Code generation
  • Software development
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o3-pro

  • Complex reasoning tasks
  • Research & analysis

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