OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol Pro vs Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-02.
| OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol Pro | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | openai | anthropic |
| Quality Score | 98 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | - | 63.9 |
| Input Price | $4.00/M | $2.00/M |
| Output Price | $20.00/M | $10.00/M |
| Context Window | 1,050,000 | 1,000,000 |
| Max Output | 128,000 | 128,000 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | - | 63.0 |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Claude Sonnet 5 costs $4.50 and GPT-5.6 Sol Pro costs $9.00, so Claude Sonnet 5 is about 2.0 times cheaper for the same work.
Both take in a similar amount of text: 1,050,000 and 1,000,000 tokens, about 1,575 and 1,500 pages.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Claude Sonnet 5 on 20 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).
GPT-5.6 Sol Pro was released in July 2026 and Claude Sonnet 5 in June 2026.
Pick Claude Sonnet 5 if you need lower cost 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?
| Task | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol Pro | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 129 | 140 |
| Code Review | 130 | 144 |
| Code Completion | 113 | 118 |
| Code Refactoring | 134 | 146 |
| Bug Fixing | 134 | 148 |
| Unit Test Generation | 122 | 131 |
| Code Documentation | 125 | 135 |
| Regex Writing | 113 | 123 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 118 | 127 |
| Frontend Component Design | 120 | 129 |
| Data Analysis | 122 | 133 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 129 | 135 |
| ETL Scripting | 126 | 136 |
| JSON Extraction | 117 | 121 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 112 | 118 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 129 | 134 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 129 | 134 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 133 | 146 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 109 | 116 |
| Blog Post Writing | 117 | 128 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →