Claude Opus 4.8 vs GPT-5.5, agentic Coding & Computer Use

Claude Opus 4.8GPT-5.5
arenaElo14351432
humanEval94.594.2
sweBench6766
mmlu9393
gpqa67.568.7
aime9092
Price in/out ($/M)$5 / $25$5 / $30

Our verdict

On agentic coding Opus 4.8 leads at 69.2% SWE-Bench Pro vs 58.6% for GPT-5.5, and it tops the Super-Agent benchmark as the only model to complete every case end-to-end at parity on cost. Opus 4.8 is the pick for long-horizon autonomous agents and computer-use; GPT-5.5 remains a strong all-rounder where you are already invested in the OpenAI stack. As always, benchmark both on your real workload before committing.

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