GPT-5.5 vs Claude Opus 4.8

A side-by-side comparison of GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 — intelligence, context, capabilities, and price.

Spec
GPT-5.5 logoGPT-5.5
Claude Opus 4.8 logoClaude Opus 4.8
Context window1.1M1M
Streaming
Reasoning
Tool use
Web search
Vision (image input)
Document input
Video
Audio
GPT-5.5 pricing
  • Up to 272K prompt tokens · Input$5 / 1M tokens
  • Up to 272K prompt tokens · Cached input$0.5 / 1M tokens
  • Up to 272K prompt tokens · Output$30 / 1M tokens
  • Over 272K prompt tokens · Input$10 / 1M tokens
  • Over 272K prompt tokens · Cached input$1 / 1M tokens
  • Over 272K prompt tokens · Output$45 / 1M tokens
  • Web search (when used)$10 / 1,000 calls

Provider-equivalent rates. Higher reasoning can use more output tokens. TryAI charges a one-credit minimum and rounds each run's aggregate cost up once.

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Claude Opus 4.8 pricing
  • Input$5 / 1M tokens
  • Cached input$0.5 / 1M tokens
  • 5m cache write$6.25 / 1M tokens
  • 1h cache write$10 / 1M tokens
  • Output$25 / 1M tokens
  • Web search (when used)$10 / 1,000 searchs

Provider-equivalent rates. Higher reasoning can use more output tokens. TryAI charges a one-credit minimum and rounds each run's aggregate cost up once.

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GPT-5.5 vs Claude Opus 4.8: FAQ

Is GPT-5.5 better than Claude Opus 4.8?
OpenAI's previous flagship. AA Intelligence Index v4.1 of 54.8 — a strong all-round frontier model, now succeeded by the GPT-5.6 family. Frontier all-rounder. Leads SWE-bench Pro (69%) at AA Intelligence Index v4.1 of 56 — the value pick just below Fable 5. The best choice depends on your workload — compare context window, capabilities, and price above, or try both on TryAI.
Which is cheaper, GPT-5.5 or Claude Opus 4.8?
See the pricing rows above for live per-token or per-generation costs. TryAI bills both from one pay-as-you-go balance.