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OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna vs Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)
Vendoropenaianthropic
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score62.384.3
Input Price$0.20/M$2.50/M
Output Price$1.20/M$12.50/M
Context Window1,050,0001,000,000
Max Output128,000128,000
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index61.669.0
eqbench-83.3

Who wins by task?

TaskOpenAI: GPT-5.6 LunaAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)
SQL Generation 141 146
Code Review 143 155
Code Completion 133 120
Code Refactoring 145 157
Bug Fixing 147 159
Unit Test Generation 131 138
Code Documentation 137 141
Regex Writing 125 127
CI/CD Pipelines 127 134
Frontend Component Design 129 133
Data Analysis 133 139
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 136 140
ETL Scripting 136 146
JSON Extraction 131 121
Bulk Data Labeling 129 117
OCR / Document Parsing 134 136
Table Extraction from PDFs 134 136
Long-Document Summarization 147 158
Short-Form Summarization 126 118
Blog Post Writing 129 134

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

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