# Claude Opus 5 vs GPT-5.4

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 5 leads GPT-5.4 in 7 of 7 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, Science, Coding › Web dev, Long context, Factuality, and Abstraction (ARC).

Claude Opus 5: $10 per 1M blended tokens.

GPT-5.4: $5.625 per 1M blended tokens.

Claude Opus 5: closed weights.

GPT-5.4: closed weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 5 leads GPT-5.4 in General LLM at #11 against #30.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 5 leads GPT-5.4 in Reasoning at #9 against #32.
- Which to pick, Science: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 5 leads GPT-5.4 in Science at #12 against #16.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 5 leads GPT-5.4 in Coding › Web dev at #6 against #60.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 5 leads GPT-5.4 in Long context at #9 against #40.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 5 leads GPT-5.4 in Factuality at #4 against #6.
- Which to pick, Abstraction (ARC): As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 5 leads GPT-5.4 in Abstraction (ARC) at #3 against #10.

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 5 is near state of the art, rank #4 in Factuality (since Oct 15, 2026; sources LMArena Text factuality; methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 15, 2026, GPT-5.4 is a former state-of-the-art holder in General LLM (since Apr 10, 2026; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall); methodology v1.0).