Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) vs OpenAI: GPT-6 Sol
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-08.
| Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) | OpenAI: GPT-6 Sol | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | anthropic | openai |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 73.6 | 81.4 |
| Input Price | $0.05/M | $2.00/M |
| Output Price | $0.25/M | $10.00/M |
| Context Window | 1,000,000 | 1,050,000 |
| Max Output | 128,000 | 128,000 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | 71.6 | 78.6 |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) costs $0.11 and GPT-6 Sol costs $4.50, so Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) is about 40.0 times cheaper for the same work.
Both take in a similar amount of text: 1,000,000 and 1,050,000 tokens, about 1,500 and 1,575 pages.
On our blended benchmark score GPT-6 Sol leads 81.4 to 73.6.
Across the 19 tasks where they differ, Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) scores higher on 9 (SQL Generation, Code Completion, Code Documentation and others), GPT-6 Sol on 10 (Code Review, Code Refactoring, Bug Fixing and others).
Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) was released in October 2026 and GPT-6 Sol in September 2026.
Pick Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) if you need lower cost; pick GPT-6 Sol if you need benchmark performance.
Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.
Who wins by task?
| Task | Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) | OpenAI: GPT-6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 142 | 142 |
| Code Review | 145 | 146 |
| Code Completion | 133 | 119 |
| Code Refactoring | 147 | 148 |
| Bug Fixing | 149 | 150 |
| Unit Test Generation | 132 | 133 |
| Code Documentation | 138 | 136 |
| Regex Writing | 127 | 125 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 128 | 129 |
| Frontend Component Design | 130 | 131 |
| Data Analysis | 134 | 135 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 136 | 135 |
| ETL Scripting | 138 | 139 |
| JSON Extraction | 131 | 121 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 129 | 118 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 134 | 134 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 134 | 134 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 127 | 117 |
| Blog Post Writing | 130 | 130 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →