HISTORICAL RELEASE COMPARISON
Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs GPT-4o: the 2024 releases
Both releases supported text and visual tasks. Sonnet arrived with Artifacts; GPT-4o emphasized integrated audio, vision and text, with features rolling out in stages.
These are the releases named below, not current product recommendations.
| What to compare | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | GPT-4o |
|---|---|---|
| Snapshot | June 2024 Sonnet | May 2024 GPT-4o |
| Companion experience | Artifacts preview | Expanded ChatGPT access |
| Historical distinction | Code and content workspace | Integrated multimodal interaction |
What this means in practice
For a website draft, inspect how easy it is to revise the output and whether the code works. For a spoken interaction, check the exact voice feature and its availability. A product experience and a model score answer different questions.
Which was better at everything?
This comparison does not declare an overall winner. It describes launch capabilities; a fair performance ranking needs the same tasks, versions and evaluation conditions.
Read the individual model stories
Sources
Developer reports describe their own results. This site has not independently reproduced them.
Anthropic: Introducing Claude 3.5 Sonnet Google Cloud: June 20 launch availability OpenAI: Hello GPT-4o OpenAI: GPT-4o rollout to ChatGPT users