Claude 4 Opus and o1 share identical input pricing at $15.00 per 1M tokens ($75.00 vs. $60.00 output). In terms of operational performance, Claude 4 Opus delivers lower response latency at 920ms TTFT (1680ms faster than o1) with 46 vs. 48 tok/s throughput. Claude 4 Opus leads coding evaluations at 77.2% SWE-bench Verified vs. 48.9% for o1 and 87.1% vs. 78.0% on GPQA Diamond.
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Verified Performance & Unit Economics Delta (12 Dimensions)
Daily synchronized metrics across token pricing, prompt cache economics, latency, throughput, and 5 capability benchmarks.
Metric / Dimension
Claude 4 Opus
o1
Net Delta / Advantage
Input Cost / 1M Tokens
$15.00
$15.00
Identical Pricing
Output Cost / 1M Tokens
$75.00
$60.00
o1 (20.0% lower)
Prompt Cache Read / 1M
$1.500
$7.500
Claude 4 Opus is 5.0x cheaper
Prompt Cache Write / 1M
$18.75
$15.00
o1 is 1.3x cheaper
Context Window (Max Output)
205k (64k out)
205k (100k out)
Equal Context Window
Avg TTFT Response Latency
920ms
2600ms
Claude 4 Opus (1680ms faster)
Generation Speed (Throughput)
46 tok/s
48 tok/s
o1 (+2 tok/s faster)
SWE-bench Verified (Coding)
77.2%
48.9%
Claude 4 Opus (+28.3% lead)
GPQA Diamond (PhD STEM)
87.1%
78%
Claude 4 Opus (+9.1% lead)
MMLU-Pro (Multi-Discipline)
91.8%
83.3%
Claude 4 Opus (+8.5% lead)
MATH-500 (Quantitative Logic)
98.1%
96.4%
Claude 4 Opus (+1.7% lead)
Inference Value Score (IVR)
43.6 / 100
37.2 / 100
Claude 4 Opus (+6.4 pts)
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Both Claude 4 Opus and o1 share identical input pricing at $15.00/1M tokens.
Which model has lower TTFT latency and higher tok/s throughput: Claude 4 Opus or o1?
Claude 4 Opus delivers faster first-token latency at 920ms TTFT (46 tok/s throughput) compared to 2600ms TTFT (48 tok/s) for o1.
How do Claude 4 Opus and o1 compare on SWE-bench coding and GPQA Diamond reasoning?
On SWE-bench Verified software engineering, Claude 4 Opus scores 77.2% versus 48.9% for o1. On GPQA Diamond graduate-level STEM reasoning, Claude 4 Opus scores 87.1% versus 78% for o1 (and 98.1% vs 96.4% on MATH-500).
When should you choose Claude 4 Opus?
Choose Claude 4 Opus (Anthropic) for mission-critical R&D, long-horizon autonomous coding tasks, complex theorem proving, and executive strategic synthesis — offering a 204k context window, 920ms TTFT, and $15.00/1M input pricing ($1.500/1M cached reads).
When should you choose o1?
Choose o1 (OpenAI) for legacy reasoning benchmarks, scientific literature review, and complex mathematical proofs — offering a 204k context window, 2600ms TTFT, and $15.00/1M input pricing ($7.500/1M cached reads).
