Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-5.4?

GPT-5.4 has the lowest input price. Per 1M input tokens: Claude Opus 5.5 from $4.00 and GPT-5.4 from $2.50.

Which has the larger context window, Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-5.4?

GPT-5.4 has the largest context window: Claude Opus 5.5 1,000,000 tokens and GPT-5.4 1,050,000 tokens.

Can I switch between Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-5.4 without changing my code?

Yes. All of them are served through FastRouter's OpenAI-compatible API, so switching is a change of the model parameter (anthropic/claude-opus-5.5, openai/gpt-5.4).

Claude Opus 5.5 vs GPT-5.4

Side-by-side pricing per provider, context window, benchmark scores and speed, all on one OpenAI-compatible API.

Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropicanthropic/claude-opus-5.5

GPT-5.4 OpenAIopenai/gpt-5.4

Creator

Anthropic

OpenAI

Released

Sep 22, 2026

Mar 5, 2026

Context window

1.05M

Max output

128K

Input / 1MLowest provider price

$4.00

$2.50$2.50–$2.75 across 2

Output / 1MLowest provider price

$20.00

$15.00$15.00–$16.50 across 2

Providers

IntelligenceArtificial Analysis index

57.6

39.0

CodingArtificial Analysis index

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71.1

LatencyMedian time to first token

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19s

ThroughputMedian tokens per second

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<1 t/s

Accepts

Text, Image, Files

Produces

Text

Tool calling

Yes

Structured output

Yes

Reasoning

Yes

Claude Opus 5.5 vs GPT-5.4: summary

Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-5.4 are both available through FastRouter's OpenAI-compatible API, so switching between them is a change of model id, not a new integration.

Claude Opus 5.5, from Anthropic, has a 1,000,000-token context window, costs $4.00/1M input and $20.00/1M output tokens and scores 57.6 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

GPT-5.4, from OpenAI, has a 1,050,000-token context window, costs from $2.50/1M input and $15.00/1M output tokens across 2 providers and scores 39.0 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

GPT-5.4 is the cheapest on input, 1.6× cheaper than the next model, GPT-5.4 has the largest context window and Claude Opus 5.5 scores highest for intelligence.

Switch with one line

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.fastrouter.ai/api/v1", api_key="<FASTROUTER_API_KEY>") client.chat.completions.create(model="anthropic/claude-opus-5.5", messages=[...]) # or client.chat.completions.create(model="openai/gpt-5.4", messages=[...])

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Benchmark scores sourced from ArtificialAnalysis