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OpenAI: GPT Mini Latest vs Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6

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

OpenAI: GPT Mini Latest Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
Vendor~openaianthropic
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-69.7
Input Price$0.75/M$3.00/M
Output Price$4.50/M$15.00/M
Context Window400,0001,000,000
Max Output128,000128,000
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
Audio--
Benchmark Scores
ai_index-49.6
aider_polyglot-61.3
eqbench-80.0

Who wins by task?

TaskOpenAI: GPT Mini LatestAnthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
SQL Generation 133 154
Code Review 132 161
Code Completion 130 120
Code Refactoring 136 162
Bug Fixing 136 166
Unit Test Generation 124 144
Code Documentation 130 142
Regex Writing 119 129
CI/CD Pipelines 120 138
Frontend Component Design 122 137
Data Analysis 124 147
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 145
ETL Scripting 128 150
JSON Extraction 130 125
Bulk Data Labeling 128 118
OCR / Document Parsing 131 140
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 140
Long-Document Summarization 137 161
Short-Form Summarization 123 118
Blog Post Writing 121 137

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

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