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Claude Opus 5.5 vs Phi 4

Claude Opus 5.5 grades higher overall (99.5 against 15.5). Phi 4 costs 99% less for the same work.

Claude Opus 5.5

by Anthropic · #1 of 67 overall

Coming soon · price at launch
Context
1M
Input / 1M
$4.00
Output / 1M
$20.00

Phi 4

by Microsoft · #66 of 67 overall

Coming soon · price at launch
Context
16K
Input / 1M
$0.070
Output / 1M
$0.14

Better overall

Claude Opus 5.5

Grade 99.5 vs 15.5

Cheaper

Phi 4

99% less, $0.087 vs $8.00 blended

Larger context

Claude Opus 5.5

1M vs 16K tokens

Head to head

Public benchmarks. Longer is better; each value links to its source.

LMArena TextElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 15, 2026
LMArena WebDevElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 13, 2026
Claude Opus 5.5Claude Opus 5.5: 1,811
Phi 4Phi 4: —
LMArena CodingElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 15, 2026
SWE-Bench Pro% of tasks resolved · Scale AI SWE-Bench Pro · Sep 22, 2026 · reference
Phi 4Phi 4: —
Terminal-Bench 4.0% of tasks passed · Terminal-Bench · Sep 22, 2026 · reference
Phi 4Phi 4: —

Claude Opus 5.5Phi 4v = reported by the model’s maker. — = no public score yet. Arena bars span the range across every model we grade.

What it costs you

Drag to match your monthly usage.

Claude Opus 5.5$1,600 /month
Phi 4$19.60 /month

Phi 4 saves you $1,580 a month at this usage, $18,965 a year.

At a glance

AttributeClaude Opus 5.5Phi 4
Made byAnthropicMicrosoft
AvailabilityComing soonComing soon
Overall gradeExcellent · 99.5Good · 15.5
Overall rank#1 of 67#66 of 67
Input price$4.00 per 1M$0.070 per 1M
Output price$20.00 per 1M$0.14 per 1M
Context window1,000,000 tokens16,384 tokens
Reasoning levelsYesNo
Reads imagesYesNo
Model IDclaude-opus-5-5phi-4

Try both with one key

Same endpoint, same key, both hosted in the USA. Change one word to switch models, in Claude Code, Cursor, Cline or your own code.

Get your API key
# Ask either model the same thing
curl https://fullsendai.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FULLSEND_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"model": "claude-opus-5-5", "messages": [...]}'

# …then swap one word
  -d '{"model": "phi-4", "messages": [...]}'

Questions

Is Claude Opus 5.5 or Phi 4 better?

Claude Opus 5.5 grades 99.5 against 15.5 for Phi 4, from public benchmarks.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 5.5 or Phi 4?

Phi 4: $0.070 in and $0.14 out per million tokens, against $4.00 and $20.00 through FullsendAI.

Which has the larger context window?

Claude Opus 5.5, with 1,000,000 tokens.

Can I use both with one API key?

Yes, once they launch: both are coming soon, at the prices shown, and both will use the same FullsendAI key.

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Scores: LMArena (CC BY 4.0), Scale AI SWE-Bench Pro, Terminal-Bench, and model makers’ published results where marked v. Prices are FullsendAI’s, per million tokens. Data as of Oct 28, 2026.