GPT 4.5 Preview 2025 02 27vsO3 2025 04 16
GPT 4.5 Preview 2025 02 27 is tied with O3 2025 04 16 on the Podium Score (72.0).Category wins: GPT 4.5 Preview 2025 02 27 0 — 0 O3 2025 04 16.GPT 4.5 Preview 2025 02 27 is the cheaper pick ($10/M vs $10/M per 1M output tokens). GPT 4.5 Preview 2025 02 27 is faster (50 t/s vs 50 t/s).
Key VerdictAggregated 2026 Benchmark Analysis
GPT 4.5 Preview 2025 02 27 is rated higher overall with a Podium Score of 72.0 (vs 72.0 for O3 2025 04 16). Both models show closely matched capabilities across domain benchmarks.
Coding & Engineering
Comparable
Inference Speed
GPT 4.5 Preview 2025 02 27 (50 t/s)
Cost Efficiency
GPT 4.5 Preview 2025 02 27 ($10/M/M)
| Metric | GPT 4.5 Preview 2025 02 27 | O3 2025 04 16 |
|---|---|---|
| Podium Score | 72.0 | 72.0 |
| Arena Elo | — | — |
| Intelligence Index | — | — |
| Coding | — | — |
| Math | — | — |
| Reasoning | — | — |
| Agentic | — | — |
| Knowledge | — | — |
| Multimodal | — | — |
| Long-context | — | — |
| Output speed | 50 t/s | 50 t/s |
| Output price | $10/M | $10/M |
| Context window | 128K | 128K |
Scores aggregated from five independent leaderboards. See Methodology. More head-to-heads: GPT 4.5 02 27 vs Claude Mythos · GPT 4.5 02 27 vs Claude Fable 5 · GPT 4.5 02 27 vs Kimi K3 · GPT 4.5 02 27 vs Claude Opus 5