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Claude Opus 4.5 vs o3-mini-high

2 vs 0 benchmarks won

Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.5
OpenAI
o3-mini-high
Overview
CompanyAnthropicOpenAI
Release dateNov 24 2025Jan 31 2025
Model type
Open sourceNoNo
Specifications
Parameters
Context window
Benchmarks
Science reasoning
GPQA Diamond
87%
Software engineering
SWE-Bench Verified
80.9%
Multimodal understanding
MMMU
Timeline
Release gapo3-mini-high shipped 297 days before Claude Opus 4.5

Which is better: Claude Opus 4.5 or o3-mini-high?

Claude Opus 4.5 leads o3-mini-high on 2 of the tracked benchmarks (GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, MMMU). o3-mini-high shipped 297 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.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — at least one of these models has not published scores on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU.

Frequently asked questions

When was Claude Opus 4.5 released?
Claude Opus 4.5 was released by Anthropic on Nov 24 2025.
When was o3-mini-high released?
o3-mini-high was released by OpenAI on Jan 31 2025.

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