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OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra Pro vs Anthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.

OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra Pro Anthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest
Vendoropenai~anthropic
Quality Score100100
Input Price$2.00/M$2.00/M
Output Price$12.00/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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The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Claude Sonnet Latest costs $4.50 and GPT-5.6 Terra Pro costs $5.00, so Claude Sonnet Latest is slightly 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 10 tasks where they differ, Claude Sonnet Latest on 10 (SQL Generation, Code Completion, Code Documentation and others).

GPT-5.6 Terra Pro was released in July 2026 and Claude Sonnet Latest in April 2026.

Pick Claude Sonnet Latest 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?

TaskOpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra ProAnthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest
SQL Generation 132 132
Code Completion 117 117
Code Documentation 129 129
Regex Writing 117 117
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 132 132
JSON Extraction 121 121
Bulk Data Labeling 117 118
Long-Document Summarization 136 136
Short-Form Summarization 113 113
Blog Post Writing 120 120

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

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