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Claude Sonnet 5vsGPT-5.6 Terra
GPT-5.6 Terra leads 5 of 5 shared benchmarks. Claude Sonnet 5 is 1.2x cheaper per token. GPT-5.6 Terra 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 – 5
GPT-5.6 Terra leads
Cheaper per token
Claude Sonnet 5
1.2x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
GPT-5.6 Terra
1.1M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 95.389%
Anthropic · OpenAI
Claude Sonnet 5
Anthropic · released 2026-06-30
textvision
GPT-5.6 Terra
OpenAI · released 2026-07-09
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
5 shared · 3 only Claude Sonnet 5 · 2 only GPT-5.6 Terra| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | GPT-5.6 Terra | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 5 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 90.5% ↗epoch | 92.9% ↗ | -2.4 pt | GPT-5.6 Terra |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 29.3% ↗epoch | 70.7% ↗epoch | -41.4 pt | GPT-5.6 Terra |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 65.6% ↗epoch | 86% ↗epoch | -20.4 pt | GPT-5.6 Terra |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 94.7% ↗epoch | 99.7% ↗epoch | -5 pt | GPT-5.6 Terra |
| SimpleQA Verified | 33.7% ↗epoch | 43.2% ↗epoch | -9.5 pt | GPT-5.6 Terra |
| Only Claude Sonnet 5 reports · 3 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 85.2% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (no tools) | 43.2% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | 57.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only GPT-5.6 Terra reports · 2 | ||||
| DeepSWE v1.1 | not reported | 69.6% ↗ | — | — |
| SWE-Bench Pro | not reported | 63.4% ↗ | — | — |
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 minus GPT-5.6 Terra 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 | GPT-5.6 Terra | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1M tokens | 1.1M tokens | GPT-5.6 Terra |
| Max output | 128K tokens | 128K tokens | Tie |
| Input price / 1M | $2 ↗ | $2 ↗ | Tie |
| Output price / 1M | $10 ↗ | $12 ↗ | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.2 ↗ | $0.2 ↗ | Tie |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $12 | $14 | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision | Tie |
| Released | 2026-06-30 | 2026-07-09 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 8 | 8 | — |
Reliability
Provider status
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