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Claude 2.1 vs GPT-3.5 Turbo (Nov 2023)

Claude 2.1 · Anthropic, released 2023-11-21
GPT-3.5 Turbo (Nov 2023) · OpenAI, released 2023-11-06

“Epoch AI, 'AI Benchmarking Hub'. Published online at epoch.ai. Retrieved from 'https://epoch.ai/benchmarks' [online resource].” · epoch.ai/benchmarks · Licensed CC BY 4.0 · data last verified 2026-07-26 · Methodology · Data Sources

Head-to-head

Measured on 2 of 9 tracked benchmarks for both models — Claude 2.1 leads on 2.

Benchmark	Claude 2.1	GPT-3.5 Turbo (Nov 2023)	Leads
Epoch Capabilities Index (ECI)	118.3	118.2	Claude 2.1
SWE-bench Verified	Not measured	Not measured	Not measured on both
GPQA Diamond	0.330	0.280	Claude 2.1
MATH Level 5	Not measured	0.159	Not measured on both
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	0.019	Not measured	Not measured on both
FrontierMath	Not measured	Not measured	Not measured on both
FrontierMath Tier 4	Not measured	Not measured	Not measured on both
SimpleQA Verified	Not measured	Not measured	Not measured on both
Chess Puzzles	Not measured	Not measured	Not measured on both

Benchmark results measure specific tasks and should not be treated as a universal measure of model quality. A model with no row here for a benchmark has not been measured on it — that is left blank, never estimated.

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