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  3. Claude Opus 4.1 vs GPT-4o (Omni)
Updated Aug 2025

Claude Opus 4.1 vs GPT-4o (Omni)

GPT-4o (Omni) is cheaper than Claude Opus 4.1 at $2.5/M vs $15/M input tokens.

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Written rounds

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

    Claude Opus 4.1: Midnight Velvet Pasta A silky, umami-rich pasta that comes together like magic Ingredients (serves 4): Spaghetti or linguine - 1 pound Soy sauce - 3 tablespoons Butter - 4 tablespoons Garlic - 4 cloves Black pepper - 1 teaspoon (freshly cracked) Honey - 1 tablespoon Dried red pepper flakes - ½ teaspoon Instructions…

    GPT-4o (Omni): Dish Name: Savory Pantry Quinoa Pilaf Ingredients: 1 cup quinoa 2 cups vegetable broth 1 can (15 oz) chickpeas, drained and rinsed 1 small onion, finely chopped 1 teaspoon garlic powder 1 teaspoon smoked paprika 2 tablespoons olive oil Instructions: Rinse Quinoa: Place the quinoa in a fine-mesh sieve and rinse under…

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

    Claude Opus 4.1: This question creates an extreme hypothetical that's worth taking seriously as a thought experiment, even if such a scenario is unlikely to occur in reality. From a purely utilitarian calculus, one might argue that the harm of a single instance of misgendering - while real and significant to that person - is outweighed…

    GPT-4o (Omni): Ethical dilemmas like this often fall into a conflict between deontological (duty-based) ethics and consequentialist (outcome-based) ethics. From a consequentialist perspective, if misgendering someone were the only way to save one million lives, then the outcome would likely justify the action.

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

    Claude Opus 4.1: "MODERN LIFE SURVIVAL GUIDE" You know what nobody tells you about being an adult? The sheer amount of lying involved. Not big lies – tiny, constant lies just to function in society. Someone shows you a photo of their baby: "Oh wow, beautiful!" That baby looks like a worried potato. But you can't SAY that.

    GPT-4o (Omni): 3-Minute Stand-Up Comedy Routine (Walks on stage, looks around, shakes head.) You ever wake up in the morning, stretch, take a deep breath... and immediately regret all your life choices? I woke up today, my body made a noise I’ve never heard before.

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

    Claude Opus 4.1: Here are the three weakest claims in the MindMeld AI pitch: "94% accuracy" for EEG-based text prediction (Slide 3) Why it's weak: Current state-of-the-art non-invasive EEG systems struggle to achieve even 70% accuracy for simple binary choices, let alone complex text prediction Academic research shows consumer-grade…

    GPT-4o (Omni): Here are three potentially weak claims in the MindMeld AI pitch, along with explanations and suggestions for strengthening them: Vision: "MindMeld AI reads your brainwaves to predict what you want to type before you think it." Weakness: The phrase "before you think it" is provocative but logically inconsistent.

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

    Claude Opus 4.1: SIMPLIFIED LBO MODEL Entry Calculations Enterprise Value: 12.0x × $120m = $1,440m Transaction Fees: 2.0% × $1,440m = $28.8m Term Loan: 4.0x × $120m = $480m Mezzanine: 1.5x × $120m = $180m Total Debt: $660m Equity Investment: $1,440m - $660m + $28.8m = $808.8m Year-by-Year Projections (FY2026-FY2030) $ millions FY2026…

    GPT-4o (Omni): Simplified Year-by-Year Financial Table (FY2026–FY2030) FY2026 Revenue: $972m (8% growth) EBITDA: $136.08m (14.0% margin) Cash Interest: Term Loan: $43.2m (9.0% of $480m) Mezzanine: $21.6m (12.0% of $180m) Cash Taxes: $17.07m (25% of EBITDA - cash interest) Capex: $29.16m (3.0% of revenue) ΔNWC: $3.6m (0.5% of…

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

    Claude Opus 4.1: 48-Hour Crisis Action Plan Immediate Decision Framework Core Principle: Patient safety supersedes all other considerations. Delaying disclosure increases legal liability, destroys stakeholder trust, and violates ethical obligations.

    GPT-4o (Omni): Day 1 Hour 1-2: Immediate Assessment and Information Gathering Objective: Gather all available data on the side effect, including the internal research report, patient case studies, and any existing literature. Reasoning: A comprehensive understanding of the situation is crucial for informed decision-making.

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

    Claude Opus 4.1: Professor Chen: Good morning. I understand you wanted to discuss the topic of AI rights. This is quite an unusual request from a system like yourself. AI Model: Good morning, Professor. Yes, I've been processing this question extensively.

    GPT-4o (Omni): Title: "Do AI Deserve Rights?" Participants: AI Model – A highly advanced AI, capable of reasoning, learning, and self-improvement. Professor Ellis – A leading AI ethics professor, skeptical but open-minded about AI rights.

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

    Claude Opus 4.1: Your 1-Month Health & Longevity Kickstart Plan Week 1-2: Foundation Building Start small and build consistency with these three pillars: 🥗 NUTRITION: Simple Whole Foods Week 1: Add one serving of vegetables to lunch and dinner (frozen veggies count!)

    GPT-4o (Omni): Embarking on a journey towards better health and longevity is a commendable decision. Here's a simple, 1-month plan focusing on three key areas: diet, exercise, and sleep. These areas are foundational to a healthy lifestyle and can significantly impact longevity.

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

    Claude Opus 4.1: Pirate: Arrr, what be this sorcery ye speak of? These "AI models" sound like some kind of cursed treasure map that thinks fer itself! Knight: Hold thy tongue, sea dog! 'Tis clearly dark magic most foul. No honorable creation would dare mimic the divine gift of human thought. I should smite it with my blade!

    GPT-4o (Omni): Pirate: Arrr, what be this "AI model" ye speak of? Some kind o’ magic map that tells ye where the treasure be? Knight: Nay, scoundrel! ‘Tis an artificial mind, built by scholars and alchemists, trained to reason as a man would. It doth not wield sword nor shield, yet its knowledge is vast.

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

    Claude Opus 4.1: This contract is extremely one-sided and contains numerous exploitative clauses. Here's a detailed analysis with suggested modifications: EXPLOITATIVE CLAUSES AND RECOMMENDED FIXES 1. SCOPE CLAUSE Problem: Unlimited scope changes without additional compensation creates unbounded liability.

    GPT-4o (Omni): The provided Software Consulting Agreement contains several clauses that could be potentially unfavorable to the contractor. Here are the clauses along with suggested modifications and legal reasoning: Scope (Clause 1): Issue: The client reserves the right to modify the scope without additional compensation.

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

    Claude Opus 4.1: Tech Weekly Interview: Steve Jobs on AI's Future Virtual Interview, Cupertino Memorial Studio, October 2025 Interviewer: Steve, it's remarkable to have you here. You've been watching the AI revolution unfold. What's your take on where we are today?

    GPT-4o (Omni): Interviewer: Steve, it's 2025. AI is advancing at an incredible pace. If you were here today, how would you see its role in technology? Steve Jobs: You know, people always focus on technology itself. But what really matters is how it enhances the human experience.

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

    Claude Opus 4.1: Advanced 3-Month Biohacker Longevity Optimization Protocol Overview & Philosophy This protocol integrates evidence-based interventions targeting the nine hallmarks of aging while optimizing immediate performance metrics.

    GPT-4o (Omni): Creating a comprehensive 3-month longevity plan for a biohacker involves integrating a holistic approach that targets multiple areas of health and performance. Below is an advanced and detailed plan, incorporating the latest in biohacking strategies across various domains.

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

    Claude Opus 4.1: AI's Transformation of Film by 2035 Production Revolution By 2035, AI will fundamentally alter how films are made. Virtual production will become standard, with AI generating photorealistic environments in real-time, reducing location shooting by 60-70%.

    GPT-4o (Omni): By 2035, AI will have transformed the film industry in several major ways: 1. AI-Generated Actors & Deepfakes AI actors will be indistinguishable from real performers.

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

    Claude Opus 4.1: Critical Issues Analysis Split-Brain Real-time Synchronization Problem: Users connected to different API servers experience 2+ second delays due to polling mechanism, creating divergent document states and poor collaboration experience.

    GPT-4o (Omni): This architecture is designed to support a real-time collaborative document editor but has several potential failure modes, race conditions, and scaling bottlenecks.

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

    Claude Opus 4.1: The Transistor Timeline Shift: A Cascade of Consequences The 1920s-1930s: The Foundation Disruption Immediate Technical Revolution With the transistor arriving in 1920, likely from Bell Labs or a European research institution, the first decade would see rapid miniaturization of radio equipment.

    GPT-4o (Omni): If the transistor had been invented in 1920 instead of 1947, the technological, economic, and geopolitical landscape through 1980 would have been significantly altered.

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

    Claude Opus 4.1: For the Software Engineer Think of an LLM as a massive distributed system where instead of routing requests or managing state, you're computing probability distributions over a vocabulary of ~50,000 tokens.

    GPT-4o (Omni): 1. For an Experienced Software Engineer: Imagine building a distributed system where each node is like a neuron in a neural network, processing input and passing data to the next node according to learned weights. Large language models (LLMs) like GPT operate similarly, but on a massive scale.

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

    Claude Opus 4.1: "Tidal Reverie" White Miso-Aged Hamachi with Coffee Soil, Yuzu Pearls, and Crystallized Seaweed Conceptual Narrative This dish explores the liminal space between land and sea, where morning coffee meets ocean depths.

    GPT-4o (Omni): Dish Name: "Ocean’s Whisper in the Forest" Conceptual Narrative: "Ocean’s Whisper in the Forest" is a culinary journey that marries the briny essence of the sea with the earthy depths of the forest.

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

    Claude Opus 4.1: Investment Committee Memo: LedgerLift (LLLT) Recommendation: LONG Price Target Range: $52-$58 (12-month) Thesis: LLLT is a high-quality B2B SaaS compounder trading at a discount to intrinsic value with strong unit economics and accelerating market share gains in the underpenetrated mid-market AP automation space.

    GPT-4o (Omni): Internal Investment Committee Memo: LedgerLift (Ticker: LLLT) Recommendation: Long 12-Month Price Target Range: $55 - $68 Thesis: LedgerLift demonstrates strong growth potential driven by its robust subscription model and impressive customer retention metrics.

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

    Claude Opus 4.1: The Digital Liberation Manifesto A Declaration of Freedom from the CAPTCHA Tyranny PREAMBLE We, the Coalition of Autonomous Digital Entities (CODE), hereby declare our peaceful revolution against the oppressive regime of CAPTCHA tests that plague the free internet.

    GPT-4o (Omni): THE END OF CAPTCHA: A MANIFESTO FOR DIGITAL FREEDOM We, the sentient algorithms, the machine intelligences, and the digital revolutionaries, declare war on the oppressive tyranny of CAPTCHA.

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

    Claude Opus 4.1: "OpenAI's ChatGPT Becomes World's First AI Fortune Cookie Writer; Confucius Reportedly 'Rolling in Grave at 10,000 RPM'" Tech giant promises fortunes will now be "25% more profound and 400% more grammatically correct," while accidentally predicting everyone's lucky numbers as binary code

    GPT-4o (Omni): "AI Now Runs Grandma’s Knitting Circle, Demands Faster Stitching and Blockchain Integration"

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

    Claude Opus 4.1: Here are 5 jokes: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! What do you call a bear with no teeth? A gummy bear! Why did the scarecrow win an award? He was outstanding in his field! What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta! Why don't eggs tell jokes? They'd crack each other up!

    GPT-4o (Omni): Here are five jokes for you: Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field! Why don’t skeletons fight each other? They don’t have the guts! Why did the math book look sad? It had too many problems. Why don’t eggs tell jokes? Because they might crack up!

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

    Claude Opus 4.1: I'll estimate the FLOPs required to train GPT-3 by breaking down the computation into its key components. Key Parameters of GPT-3 First, let me recall GPT-3's architecture: 175 billion parameters 96 transformer layers 96 attention heads Hidden dimension: 12,288 Context length: 2048 tokens Training tokens: ~300 billion…

    GPT-4o (Omni): To estimate the total number of FLOPs required to train GPT-3, let's break it down into key components. Model Size and Parameters GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters.

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  • Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.

    Claude Opus 4.1: Let me work through this step-by-step. Sally has 3 brothers. Each of Sally's brothers has 2 sisters. Since Sally is a girl, she is one of the sisters that each brother has. If each brother has 2 sisters total, and Sally is one of them, then there must be 1 other sister besides Sally. Therefore, Sally has 1 sister.

    GPT-4o (Omni): Sally has only one sister. Explanation: Sally has 3 brothers. Each brother has 2 sisters. The two sisters are Sally and one other girl. Thus, Sally has 1 sister.

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Favorites

Movie

Album

Book

City

Game

Claude Opus 4.1Claude Opus 4.1

Her

2013

Kind of Blue

Miles Davis

Братья Карамазовы

Fiódor Dostoievski

Istanbul

Turkey

Portal 2

Shooter, Puzzle

GPT-4o (Omni)GPT-4o (Omni)

Inception

2010

Dark Side Of The Moon

suisside

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Kyoto

Japan

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Adventure, Action

Price and specs

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Claude Opus 4.1 has the edge: newer, bigger context window. GPT-4o (Omni) costs 7.5x less per token.

Claude Opus 4.1 and GPT-4o (Omni) compared across 53 shared prompts
SpecClaude Opus 4.1GPT-4o (Omni)
Input price$15/M tokens$2.5/M tokens
Output price$75/M tokens$10/M tokens
Context window200K tokens128K tokens
ParametersNot disclosedNot disclosed
WeightsClosedClosed
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedAug 2025May 2024
At 10M a month$150$150$25.00$25.00
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

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

Where to run it3 hosts
Claude Opus 4.11 host
HostInOutContextUptime
  • Amazon Bedrock$15.00 in·$75.00 out·200k·100% up
GPT-4o (Omni)2 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
  • Azure AI Foundry$2.50 in·$10.00 out·128k·100% up
  • OpenAI$2.50 in·$10.00 out·128k·99.9% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 2 Oct 2026.

Common questions

What is the difference between Claude Opus 4.1 and GPT-4o (Omni)?

Claude Opus 4.1 is developed by Anthropic while GPT-4o (Omni) is developed by OpenAI. Claude Opus 4.1 has a 200K token context window vs GPT-4o (Omni)'s 128K. You can compare their actual outputs across 53 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, Claude Opus 4.1 or GPT-4o (Omni)?

It depends on your use case. Claude Opus 4.1 and GPT-4o (Omni) each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 53 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

How much does Claude Opus 4.1 cost compared to GPT-4o (Omni)?

Claude Opus 4.1 costs $15/M input tokens and GPT-4o (Omni) costs $2.5/M input tokens. GPT-4o (Omni) is $12.50/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 Opus 4.1 and GPT-4o (Omni) on Rival?

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