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Nex AGI: Nex-N2.6 vs Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5.5

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-12.

Nex AGI: Nex-N2.6 Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5.5
Vendornex-agianthropic
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-89.3
Input Price$0.12/M$2.00/M
Output Price$0.40/M$10.00/M
Context Window262,1441,000,000
Max Output235,929128,000
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio--
Benchmark Scores
ai_index-90.0

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Nex-N2.6 costs $0.22 and Claude Sonnet 5.5 costs $4.50, so Nex-N2.6 is about 20.5 times cheaper for the same work.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 reads up to 1,000,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,500 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Nex-N2.6.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Nex-N2.6 scores higher on 4 (Code Completion, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others), Claude Sonnet 5.5 on 16 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others).

Nex-N2.6 was released in November 2026 and Claude Sonnet 5.5 in September 2026.

Pick Nex-N2.6 if you need lower cost; pick Claude Sonnet 5.5 if you need long documents or the stronger all-round task scores.

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?

TaskNex AGI: Nex-N2.6Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5.5
SQL Generation 131 143
Code Review 126 149
Code Completion 129 119
Code Refactoring 127 150
Bug Fixing 130 153
Unit Test Generation 121 134
Code Documentation 126 137
Regex Writing 119 126
CI/CD Pipelines 117 130
Frontend Component Design 122 132
Data Analysis 124 137
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 128 136
ETL Scripting 122 140
JSON Extraction 131 121
Bulk Data Labeling 129 118
OCR / Document Parsing 128 135
Table Extraction from PDFs 128 135
Long-Document Summarization 129 151
Short-Form Summarization 123 118
Blog Post Writing 119 131

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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