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OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna vs Anthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest

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

OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna Anthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest
Vendoropenai~anthropic
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score62.3-
Input Price$0.20/M$2.00/M
Output Price$1.20/M$10.00/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_index61.6-

Who wins by task?

TaskOpenAI: GPT-5.6 LunaAnthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest
SQL Generation 141 132
Code Review 143 132
Code Completion 133 117
Code Refactoring 145 136
Bug Fixing 147 136
Unit Test Generation 131 124
Code Documentation 137 129
Regex Writing 125 117
CI/CD Pipelines 127 120
Frontend Component Design 129 122
Data Analysis 133 124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 136 132
ETL Scripting 136 128
JSON Extraction 131 121
Bulk Data Labeling 129 118
OCR / Document Parsing 134 131
Table Extraction from PDFs 134 131
Long-Document Summarization 147 136
Short-Form Summarization 126 113
Blog Post Writing 129 120

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

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