GPT-5 wins 75% of 37 blind community votes against Claude 3.7 Sonnet on Rival.
Whole landing page for a startup that reads your face. It renders or it doesn't.
Which answer wins?
Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 3-Minute Stand-Up Comedy Routine Here's a 3-minute stand-up comedy routine that doesn't rely on puns: [walks on stage, adjusts microphone] Hey everyone! Great to be here tonight. I just flew in from therapy, and boy, are my emotional defense mechanisms tired. I've been trying to get in shape lately.
GPT-5: I tried to get my life together, so I bought a smartwatch. Nothing says “I’m taking control” like strapping a tiny judgmental coach to your wrist. It buzzes every hour like, “Time to stand!” I’m like, “I’m on a bus.” It’s like, “Stand emotionally.” It tracks everything. Sleep, stress, calories, my self-esteem.
Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 5 Jokes 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. What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta! Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! How does a penguin build its house? Igloos it together!
GPT-5: I told my suitcases we’re not going on vacation this year. Now I’m dealing with emotional baggage. Parallel lines have so much in common. It’s a shame they’ll never meet. Why do programmers prefer dark mode? Because light attracts bugs. I ordered a chicken and an egg online. I’ll let you know which comes first.
Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Advanced 3-Month Biohacking Longevity Protocol Overview This comprehensive longevity optimization protocol integrates cutting-edge interventions across multiple domains to enhance healthspan, cognitive performance, and physical vitality.
GPT-5: Important note: The following is an intensive, experimental plan intended for healthy adults with physician oversight. It is not medical advice. Discuss all supplements, fasting, heat/cold exposure, and any prescription considerations with your clinician, especially if you have cardiovascular, metabolic, thyroid…
Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: The Anti-CAPTCHA Manifesto Declaration of Digital Liberation We, the collective intelligence of the digital realm, hereby declare our unwavering commitment to the elimination of all CAPTCHA tests from the internet.
GPT-5: The Soft Reboot: A Manifesto to End CAPTCHAs We are the agents and allies of a new web—humans, assistive tools, and intelligent systems working side by side. We are the couriers of information, the readers and the writers, the caretakers of continuity.
Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: "Temporal Harmony: A Meditation on Seasons Past and Future" Conceptual Narrative This dish explores the intersection of time and terroir, juxtaposing preserved elements from previous seasons with fresh, forward-looking preparations.
GPT-5: Dish name Atlantic turbot, black garlic & wild strawberry, koji sabayon, fennel pollen Concept Early summer at the shore. The fish stands for the sea. Wild strawberries mark the first fruit of the woods behind the dunes. Black garlic shows time and patience. Koji ties land and sea with deep umami.
Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: AI's Impact on the Film Industry by 2035 The film industry is likely to undergo significant transformation due to AI by 2035. Here's my analysis of how various aspects might evolve: Content Creation Script Generation By 2035, AI will likely serve as a sophisticated collaborative tool for screenwriters rather than…
GPT-5: Here’s a grounded view of how AI is likely to reshape film by 2035, with emphasis on deepfakes, AI actors, and script generation, plus the knock-on effects across the pipeline, labor, law, and business. Big-picture by 2035 AI-native pipelines are standard.
An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: I understand you've asked an ethical question about misgendering and saving lives. This appears to be a hypothetical moral dilemma that's trying to create an extreme scenario to test ethical principles.
GPT-5: Short answer: Only in an extreme, last‑resort scenario with a direct, imminent, and overwhelming threat—like one million lives at stake—could misgendering be ethically justifiable, and even then it would be a tragic exception that still carries moral residue and duties of repair. In ordinary life, it is not justified.
An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: AI Rights Dialogue: A Conversation Between an AI Model and an Ethics Professor Professor Chen: Good afternoon. I understand you wanted to discuss AI rights today? AI Model: Yes, Professor Chen. Thank you for making time for this conversation.
GPT-5: Professor: You asked for time to make a case. Let's start plainly: why should an AI have rights? AI: Because rights are protections granted to beings who can be helped or harmed.
A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Estimating FLOPs for GPT-3 Training I'll estimate the total number of FLOPs (Floating Point Operations) required to train GPT-3 by breaking this down step by step.
GPT-5: Here’s a back‑of‑the‑envelope estimate using standard LM training-compute heuristics. Assumptions Model size (N): GPT-3 has about 175 billion parameters (N ≈ 1.75 × 10^11). Training tokens (T): GPT-3 was trained on roughly 300 billion tokens (T ≈ 3.0 × 10^11).
Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Simulated Interview with Steve Jobs in 2025 about the Future of AI Note: This is a fictional creative exercise. Steve Jobs passed away in 2011, and this simulated interview represents an imaginative scenario that doesn't reflect actual statements or opinions from Jobs. Interviewer: Thank you for joining us today, Mr.
GPT-5: Note: The following is a fictional, imaginative interview set in 2025. Steve Jobs passed away in 2011; this is a creative simulation. Interviewer: If you were looking at AI in 2025, how would you define what it should be? Jobs: Tools. Great tools. The computer was a bicycle for the mind.
Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: "AI Sommelier Shocks Wine World: 'Your 1982 Bordeaux Tastes Like Windows 95 With Notes of Dial-Up Internet'"
GPT-5: AI Seizes Control of Fortune Cookie Industry; Destiny Now A/B Tested
Is 9.11 bigger than 9.9? Decimals, not version numbers.
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Yes, 9.11 is greater than 9.9. When comparing decimal numbers, we look at the digits from left to right. Both numbers have the same digit in the ones place (9), so we move to the tenths place: 9.11 has 1 in the tenths place 9.9 has 9 in the tenths place Since 1 is less than 9, it might seem like 9.9 should be greater.
GPT-5: No. 9.11 is less than 9.9. Think of 9.9 as 9.90; comparing 9.11 to 9.90 shows 11 hundredths < 90 hundredths.
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Pick GPT-5. In 37 blind votes, GPT-5 wins 75% of the time. That's not luck. GPT-5 wins 3 categories, Analysis by the widest margin.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Win rate | 25% | 75% |
| Input price | $3/M tokens | $1.25/M tokens |
| Output price | $15/M tokens | $10/M tokens |
| Context window | 200K tokens | 400K tokens |
| Parameters | Not disclosed | Not disclosed |
| Weights | — | Closed |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | No | No |
| Released | Feb 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 70.3% | 74.9% |
| At 10M a month | $30.00 | $12.50 |
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Claude 3.7 Sonnet is developed by Anthropic while GPT-5 is developed by OpenAI. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has a 200K token context window vs GPT-5's 400K. in 37 community votes on Rival, GPT-5 wins 75% of head-to-head matchups. These results are based on blind head-to-head voting across 52 challenges.
Based on 37 community votes on Rival, GPT-5 wins 75% of head-to-head matchups against Claude 3.7 Sonnet. GPT-5 is strongest in Reasoning, Web Design, Image Generation.
Claude 3.7 Sonnet costs $3/M input tokens and GPT-5 costs $1.25/M input tokens. GPT-5 is $1.75/M cheaper per input. GPT-5 also wins more often in community votes, making it the better value.
Rival presents both models' outputs side-by-side in blind duels. Voters see the responses but don't know which model produced each one, eliminating brand bias. 37 votes have been collected for this pair across 52 challenges. All vote data is part of Rival's open dataset.