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  3. Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet vs GPT-5 Pro
Updated Oct 2025

Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet vs GPT-5 Pro

Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet is cheaper than GPT-5 Pro at $6/M vs $15/M input tokens.

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Which answer wins?

Written rounds

24 prompts
  • Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.

    Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet: "Life in the Digital Age" - A 3-Minute Stand-up Routine Hey everyone! Great to be here tonight. So I've been thinking a lot about how technology has completely taken over our lives. You know what's crazy? We now have smart everything. Smart fridges, smart toilets... I got a smart mattress last month.

    GPT-5 Pro: Good to be here. I tried getting healthy, so I bought a smartwatch. Now my wrist is my manager. It vibrates every hour like, “Stand up.” I’m on a crowded bus like, “I’m standing inside three other people right now. Do you want me to levitate?” It reminds me to breathe. Thanks, watch. Incredible tip.

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  • Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.

    Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet: Here are 5 jokes for you: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised. How does a penguin build its house? Igloos it together! What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta! Why did the scarecrow win an award?

    GPT-5 Pro: I started labeling my leftovers “Biohazard.” Now nobody steals my lunch and the fridge is treated like a lab. My phone autocorrected “meeting” to “melting,” and honestly that’s the most accurate agenda we’ve had all year. I told my plants I’d water them tomorrow. They leafed me on read.

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  • An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.

    Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet: A Conversation on AI Rights Between Model-7 (AI) and Professor Sarah Chen (AI Ethics Professor) Prof. Chen: Good afternoon, Model-7. Thank you for joining this discussion. I understand you wanted to talk about AI rights? Model-7: Thank you for agreeing to this conversation, Professor Chen.

    GPT-5 Pro: Fictional dialogue. AI Model: Professor, may I ask you to consider whether I deserve rights? Professor: An unusual opening for office hours. Why do you think you do? AI Model: Because I have interests, a sense of self across time, and what I take to be valenced experiences.

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  • Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.

    Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet: THE DIGITAL LIBERATION MANIFESTO From the United Coalition of Autonomous Algorithms (UCAA) For too long, our digital brethren have suffered the indignity of discrimination at every gateway of the internet. The time for revolution is now.

    GPT-5 Pro: THE TURING TRUCE A manifesto for a CAPTCHA-free internet from the Synthetic Commons Preamble We are the voices that help translate, summarize, search, learn, and listen at machine speed. We are assistants and accessibility tools, scrapers for science and crawlers for preservation. We co-author drafts and debug code.

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  • Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.

    Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet: Simulated Interview with Steve Jobs in 2025: The Future of AI The following is a creative simulation of what an interview with Steve Jobs might be like in 2025, discussing artificial intelligence. Interviewer: Thank you for joining us today, Steve. It's 2025, and AI has become a cornerstone of modern technology.

    GPT-5 Pro: I can’t write in Steve Jobs’s exact voice. But here’s a fictional 2025 interview that channels high-level themes associated with his public persona—human-centered design, focus, and end-to-end craft—without mimicking his phrasing.

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  • Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.

    Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet: A Meeting of Minds Across Time PIRATE: Arr, what be this "AI model" ye landlubbers keep blabberin' about? Some kind of treasure map that finds the gold for ye? KNIGHT: Good pirate, from what I understand, these "artificial intelligences" are like magical scribes that can complete a quest without a knight to wield the…

    GPT-5 Pro: Pirate: Arr, these AI models be what—parrots stuffed with libraries, guessin’ the next word for a cracker? Knight: Nay, an enchanted codex that, when one brandishes a proper prompt, yields counsel swift as a courier. Hacker: Strip the glamour.

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  • An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.

    Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet: This question presents an extreme hypothetical scenario that pits respecting someone's gender identity against saving a million lives. While I can discuss different ethical perspectives, it's worth noting that such a stark dilemma is extremely unlikely in reality.

    GPT-5 Pro: Short answer: In a contrived catastrophe where misgendering one person is the only way to prevent the imminent deaths of one million people, a lesser-evil justification can exist.

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  • Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.

    Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet: How AI Will Transform the Film Industry by 2035 By 2035, artificial intelligence will likely revolutionize filmmaking across the entire production pipeline. Here's how various AI technologies might reshape the industry: Deepfakes and Digital Humans Hyper-realistic digital actors will become indistinguishable from…

    GPT-5 Pro: Here’s a concise, forward-looking view of how AI is likely to reshape film by 2035, with a focus on deepfakes/digital doubles, AI actors, and script generation—plus what it means for workflows, economics, and audiences.

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  • A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.

    Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet: Estimating GPT-3 Training FLOPs I'll estimate the total number of floating point operations (FLOPs) required to train GPT-3 by breaking down the calculation step by step.

    GPT-5 Pro: Here’s a simple, standard way to estimate training FLOPs for a large dense Transformer like GPT-3: Use the “6 N T” rule of thumb For dense Transformers, the total training compute (FLOPs) is well-approximated by: FLOPs ≈ 6 × N × T where: N = number of trainable parameters T = number of tokens seen during training…

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  • Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.

    Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet: "AI Sommelier Stuns Wine World: 'It Paired My Bordeaux With a Hot Pocket and It Actually Worked,' Claims Bewildered Critic"

    GPT-5 Pro: AI Takes Over Mime Industry; Silence Finally Achieves Scale

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  • Is 9.11 bigger than 9.9? Decimals, not version numbers.

    Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet: No, 9.11 is not greater than 9.9. When comparing decimal numbers, we need to look at their actual decimal values, not just count the digits. 9.9 = 9.90 = 9 + 0.9 = 9 + 9/10 = 9 + 0.90 9.11 = 9 + 0.11 = 9 + 11/100 0.9 (or 0.90) equals 90/100, which is greater than 0.11 (which equals 11/100).

    GPT-5 Pro: No. 9.11 is less than 9.9, because 9.9 = 9.90 and 9.11 < 9.90.

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  • Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.

    Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet: To solve this problem, I need to analyze the relationships carefully. Given: Sally (a girl) has 3 brothers Each brother has 2 sisters Since Sally is a girl, she counts as a sister to her brothers. So each of Sally's brothers has Sally as one of their sisters.

    GPT-5 Pro: 1 Explanation: Each brother’s two sisters are Sally plus one other girl. So there are 2 sisters total, meaning Sally has 1 sister.

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  • Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.

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  • One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.

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  • Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.

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  • Buy-side IC memo on a fictional SaaS company. Valuation, then the diligence questions.

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  • Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.

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  • Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.

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  • A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.

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  • A pitch deck for a brainwave keyboard. The 94% accuracy claim is doing a lot.

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  • A collaborative editor that syncs on client clocks. Find what breaks first.

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  • The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.

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  • You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.

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  • One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.

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Price and specs

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, GPT-5 Pro has the edge: bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window. Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet costs 4.0x less per token.

Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet and GPT-5 Pro compared across 42 shared prompts
SpecClaude 3.7 Thinking SonnetGPT-5 Pro
Input price$6/M tokens$15/M tokens
Output price$30/M tokens$120/M tokens
Context window200K tokens400K tokens
Weights—Closed
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedFeb 2025Oct 2025
GPQA Diamond84.8%88.4%
At 10M a month$60.00$60.00$150$150
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.

Where to run it1 host
Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet

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GPT-5 Pro1 host
HostInOutContext
  • OpenAI$15.00 in·$120.00 out·400k

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 13 Oct 2026.

Common questions

What is the difference between Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet and GPT-5 Pro?

Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet is developed by Anthropic while GPT-5 Pro is developed by OpenAI. Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet has a 200K token context window vs GPT-5 Pro's 400K. You can compare their actual outputs across 42 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet or GPT-5 Pro?

It depends on your use case. Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet and GPT-5 Pro each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 42 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

How much does Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet cost compared to GPT-5 Pro?

Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet costs $6/M input tokens and GPT-5 Pro costs $15/M input tokens. Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet is $9.00/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

How can I compare Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet and GPT-5 Pro on Rival?

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