Claude Sonnet 5 vs GPT-5.4 Nano

The all-rounder in the Claude family, and a sensible default for most work. Sonnet 5 codes, writes, and analyses across the same ground as the flagship, reads images and documents, and holds the same very large context. It is faster and costs less. It gives up ground only on problems difficult enough to need the flagship.

OpenAI's smallest and cheapest current-generation model, built for speed and volume. GPT-5.4 Nano excels at classification, data extraction, ranking, and coding sub-tasks, and works well as a fast sub-agent inside larger systems. It reads text and images, supports web search, and follows instructions reliably. Reasoning depth is shallow by design, traded for very low latency and cost at scale.