Claude Opus 4.5 vs GPT-5.3

Side-by-side comparison. Updated 2026-07-01.

Summary

Compare Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.3 across pricing, context window, modalities, strengths, weaknesses, and best-fit workloads.

Use the details below to weigh cost, context, modalities, and workload fit.

Claude Opus 4.5
by Anthropic
Input pricing
$15.00 /1M input tokens
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GPT-5.3
by OpenAI
Input pricing
$11.00 /1M input tokens
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At a Glance

Side-by-side comparison of Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.3
Attribute Claude Opus 4.5 GPT-5.3
Provider Anthropic OpenAI
Tags Intelligent Reasoning Multimodal Intelligent Reasoning Coding Multimodal
Context 200,000 tokens 400,000 tokens
Input price $15.00/1M $11.00/1M
Output price $75.00/1M $44.00/1M
Input modalities Text Text, Image, File
Output modalities Text Text

Claude Opus 4.5 Strengths

  • Best-in-class reasoning depth
  • Superior coding ability
  • Excellent instruction following
  • Strong multilingual performance
  • Nuanced creative writing

GPT-5.3 Strengths

  • Improved agentic coding
  • Reliable multi-step tool use
  • 400K context window
  • File and image input