The Known Good Updated 29 Jul 2026
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
#4 of 62
94based on 5 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#130 of 317
56.0
Output tokens per second
Price
#343 of 370
$10.00
Blended per 1M tokens
In $5.00 · Out $25.00
Cache hit price
#216 of 238
$0.50
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#102 of 375
1.00M
tokens (~1,500 pages)
OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano — OpenAI
Quality
#32 of 62
67based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#47 of 317
97.5
Output tokens per second
Price
#58 of 370
$0.14
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.05 · Out $0.40
Cache hit price
#14 of 238
$0.005
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#120 of 375
400k
tokens (~600 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 scores 94 and OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano scores 67 — a 27-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 56 tokens per second for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 and 98 for OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano, with time to first token at 1.6s and 2.3s. 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. 5 tracked hosts serve one or both, and 1 serve both.

Generated from tracked data on 29 Jul 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.7OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano
Known Good Index 94 based on 5 of 7 evaluations 67 based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $10.00 $0.14
Output tok/s 56 98
Context window 1.00M 400k
Providers 4 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 94 67
Coding Index 100
Mathematics Index 98 89
Reasoning Index 86
Agentic Index 100 21
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-Bench90 / 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 1,482
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,493
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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

Median throughput and time to first token across hosting providers

Output speedTime to first token
Throughput and latency

Medians across all tracked providers, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.7OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano
Output tokens/s 56 98
Time to first token 1.6s 2.3s
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Providers

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

5 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 72
Amazon Bedrock · first party $10.00 44
Anthropic · first party $10.00 44
Azure · first party $10.00 $0.14 58
OpenAI · first party $0.07 186

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 →