OpenAI o3 vs Claude Opus 4.7, reasoning Mode Showdown

OpenAI o3Claude Opus 4.7
arenaElo14181420
humanEval92.493.1
sweBench69.164.3
mmlu90.292.3
gpqa83.365.2
aime91.688
Price in/out ($/M)$2 / $8$5 / $25

Our verdict

o3 is the sharper reasoner on GPQA (83.3 vs 65.2) but thinks for seconds to minutes per answer. Claude Opus 4.7 is faster, has a 5× bigger context window and stronger long-horizon agent reliability. Pick o3 for one-shot hard problems; Opus 4.7 for interactive agents and code that must ship.

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