Claude 3 Opus vs GPT-5.6 Luna
Anthropic Claude 3 Opus | OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Release date | Mar 4 2024 | Jun 26 2026 |
| Access | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Benchmarks | ||
Coding SWE-Bench VerifiedReal coding tasks pulled from open-source projects — the AI has to find and fix actual bugs. A human-checked version of the original SWE-Bench. Higher is better. | 33% | — |
Science GPQA DiamondGraduate-level science questions in biology, physics, and chemistry — hard enough that subject-matter PhDs score around 65%. Higher is better. | 50.4% | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | Claude 3 Opus shipped 844 days before GPT-5.6 Luna | |
Which is better: Claude 3 Opus or GPT-5.6 Luna?
Claude 3 Opus and GPT-5.6 Luna don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Claude 3 Opus shipped 844 days before GPT-5.6 Luna, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Published specifications for these two models are limited — see each model page for the latest details.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Claude 3 Opus and GPT-5.6 Luna don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.
Frequently asked questions
Claude 3 Opus was released by Anthropic on Mar 4 2024.
GPT-5.6 Luna was released by OpenAI on Jun 26 2026.
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