1 vs 2 benchmarks won
Anthropic Claude Opus 4.5 | OpenAI GPT-5.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Release date | Nov 24 2025 | Nov 12 2025 |
| Model type | — | — |
| Open source | No | No |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | — | — |
Context window | — | — |
| Benchmarks | ||
Science reasoning GPQA Diamond | 87% | 88.1% |
Software engineering SWE-Bench Verified | 80.9% | 76.3% |
Multimodal understanding MMMU | — | 76% |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | GPT-5.1 shipped 12 days before Claude Opus 4.5 | |
GPT-5.1 leads Claude Opus 4.5 on 2 of the tracked benchmarks (GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, MMMU). GPT-5.1 shipped 12 days before Claude Opus 4.5, 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.
On GPQA Diamond, GPT-5.1 scores 88.1%, 1.1 points above Claude Opus 4.5 at 87%. On SWE-Bench Verified, Claude Opus 4.5 scores 80.9%, 4.6 points above GPT-5.1 at 76.3%.