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Claude Sonnet 5.5vs
GPT-5.6 Sol
Claude Sonnet 5.5 and GPT-5.6 Sol do not yet share a public benchmark, so quality cannot be compared apples-to-apples. Claude Sonnet 5.5 is 2x cheaper per token. GPT-5.6 Sol has the larger context window (1.1M tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
0
no overlap yet
Cheaper per token
Claude Sonnet 5.5
2x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
GPT-5.6 Sol
1.1M tokens
Providers
2 providers
Anthropic · OpenAI
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Anthropic · released 2026-09-28
textvision
GPT-5.6 Sol
OpenAI · released 2026-07-09
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
0 shared · 6 only Claude Sonnet 5.5 · 7 only GPT-5.6 Sol| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | GPT-5.6 Sol | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 0 | ||||
| No public benchmark is reported for both models yet. | ||||
| Only Claude Sonnet 5.5 reports · 6 | ||||
| Chartography (no tools) | 61.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | 55.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | 46.2% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | 64.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OSWorld 2.1 (partial) | 80.1% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 70.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only GPT-5.6 Sol reports · 7 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | not reported | 94.6% ↗ | — | — |
| DeepSWE v1.1 | not reported | 72.7% ↗ | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 82.9% ↗epoch | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 89.1% ↗epoch | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 100% ↗epoch | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | not reported | 69.7% ↗epoch | — | — |
| SWE-Bench Pro | not reported | 64.6% ↗ | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Claude Sonnet 5.5 minus GPT-5.6 Sol in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | GPT-5.6 Sol | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1M tokens | 1.1M tokens | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| Max output | 128K tokens | 128K tokens | Tie |
| Input price / 1M | $2 ↗ | $4 ↗ | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| Output price / 1M | $10 ↗ | $20 ↗ | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.2 ↗ | $0.4 ↗ | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $12 | $24 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision | Tie |
| Released | 2026-09-28 | 2026-07-09 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 6 | 8 | — |
Reliability
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