GPT-4o Audio vs Claude 4.5 Sonnet

1. True multimodal audio model

• Accepts raw audio as input and produces audio or text as output.
• Enables hands-free, voice-first app experiences.

2. Natural real-time speech interaction

• Low-latency audio generation suitable for conversational agents.
• Great for voice assistants, phone bots, and interactive voice UI.

3. Large 128K context window

• Supports long conversations, call transcripts, instructions, or multi-part interactions.
• Ideal for building persistent voice agents or phone workflows.

4. High-output capacity

• Up to 16,384 max output tokens for extended responses or long explanations.
• Suitable for complex reasoning tasks in voice format.

5. Hybrid text + audio workloads

• Combine audio input/output with text prompts, instructions, or structured control.
• Useful for customer support bots, spoken form systems, IVR replacements, etc.

6. Compatible with the latest APIs

• Works with Chat Completions, Responses API, Realtime API, and Assistants.
• Supports streaming, function calling, and advanced developer tooling.

7. Strong performance for a preview model

• High reasoning and expression abilities relative to most audio-capable models.
• Designed for production-style experimentation prior to full release.

8. Ideal for next-gen voice applications

• Build lifelike AI agents, interview bots, tutoring systems, and spoken knowledge tools.
• Perfect for startups building audio-first user experiences.

1. Best-in-class coding performance

• #1 on SWE-bench Verified (77.2% standard, 82.0% high-compute).
• Excels at debugging, architecture, and multi-file code generation.
• Maintains coherence for extremely long tasks (30+ hours).

2. State-of-the-art computer use & agents

• Leads OSWorld at 61.4%.
• Strongest model for agentic workflows, multi-step tool use, and real computer control.
• Powering Claude Code, the new Claude Agent SDK, and Chrome agent actions.

3. Advanced reasoning & math

• Large improvements across reasoning-heavy benchmarks (AIME, MMMLU, τ2-bench, Terminal-Bench).
• Deep multi-step reasoning with extended or interleaved thinking.

4. High alignment & safety

• Most aligned Claude model to date with reduced deception, hallucinations, sycophancy, and harmful compliance.
• Strong protections against prompt injection for agentic tasks (ASL-3 safeguards).

5. Domain-expert performance

• Notable gains in finance, law, medicine, and STEM tasks.
• Trusted by early customers for long-context legal analysis, multi-file engineering, security research, and red-teaming.