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Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 vs OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano ·Anthropic vs OpenAI

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 vs OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano — head-to-head comparison

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 profile OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano profile All comparisons
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 — Anthropic
Quality
#9 of 65
90based on 5 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#218 of 345
57.5
Output tokens per second
Price
#488 of 526
$10.00
Blended per 1M tokens
In $5.00 · Out $25.00
Cache hit price
#378 of 412
$0.50
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#201 of 575
1.00M
tokens (~1,500 pages)
OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano — OpenAI
Quality
#33 of 65
67based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#52 of 345
131.1
Output tokens per second
Price
#74 of 526
$0.14
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.05 · Out $0.40
Cache hit price
#31 of 412
$0.005
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#259 of 575
400k
tokens (~600 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 scores 90 and OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano scores 67 — a 22-point lead for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7. They share 3 published evaluations, with Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 ahead on 3 and OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano ahead on 0.

Blended pricing is $10.00 per 1M tokens for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 and $0.14 for OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano — OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano is about 72.7× cheaper.

Throughput is 58 tokens per second for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 and 131 for OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano, with time to first token at 1.4s and 2.1s. Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 accepts 1.00M tokens of context against 400k.

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 is proprietary; OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano is proprietary. 6 tracked hosts serve one or both, and 1 serve both.

Generated from tracked data on 25 Oct 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.7OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano
Known Good Index 90 based on 5 of 7 evaluations 67 based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $10.00 $0.14
Output tok/s 58 131
Context window 1.00M 400k
Providers 5 2
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.7OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano
Known Good Index 90 67
Coding Index 97 —
Mathematics Index — 89
Reasoning Index 79 —
Openness Index 5 5
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 · marker = OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond90 / 69
Mock AIME 2024–2598 / 81
Terminal-Bench80 / 22

Right-hand figures read Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 / OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano. Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 leads on 3 of 3, OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano on 0.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.7OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano
Text Arena 1,483 1,320
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,494 1,338
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.7OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano
Input $/1M $5.00 $0.05
Output $/1M $25.00 $0.40
Blended $/1M $10.00 $0.14
Cache read $/1M $0.500 $0.005
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.7OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano
Context window 1.00M 400k
Max output tokens 128k 128k
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Speed & Latency

Mean throughput and time to first token across hosting providers, over successful measurements from the last 48 hours

Throughput and latency

Means across all tracked providers over successful measurements from the last 48 hours, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.7OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano
Output tokens/s 58 131
Time to first token 1.4s 2.1s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

6 hosts · 1 serve both
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 blendedAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 tok/s OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano blendedOpenAI: GPT-5 Nano tok/s
Google · first party $10.00 66 — —
Amazon Bedrock · first party $10.00 60 — —
Claude Platform on AWS $10.00 48 — —
Anthropic · first party $10.00 39 — —
Azure · first party $10.00 — $0.14 114
OpenAI · first party — — $0.07 182

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Elo — Arena Full attribution →