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Alternatives to Claude Sonnet 5.5

For pulling data out of documents, Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores 69 and costs $10.00 per 1,000 documents. Here’s what beats it on price, on quality, or on privacy.

Overall 79$4.00 / 1M
95% similarQwen3.8 MaxAlibaba (Qwen)
Overall66−13
Blended / 1M$3.00−25%
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Qwen3.8 Max vs Claude Sonnet 5.5Overall−13Coding−12Writing+1Support+3Value−11Context1M
94% similarOpen weightsGLM-5.3Z.ai
Overall61−18
Blended / 1M$2.15−46%
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GLM-5.3 vs Claude Sonnet 5.5Overall−18Coding−19Writing−4Support−2Value−15Context1M
92% similarOpen weightsKimi K3Moonshot AI
Overall65−14
Blended / 1M$6.00+50%
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Kimi K3 vs Claude Sonnet 5.5Overall−14Coding−13Writing−5Support+4Value−17Context1M
92% similarMuse Spark 1.3Meta
Overall68−11
Blended / 1M$2.00−50%
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Muse Spark 1.3 vs Claude Sonnet 5.5Overall−11Coding−12Writing−4Support+2Value−7Context1M
91% similarGPT-5.6 SolOpenAI
Overall68−11
Blended / 1M$8.00+100%
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GPT-5.6 Sol vs Claude Sonnet 5.5Overall−11Coding−20Writing−7Support−3Value−15Context1.1M
90% similarGPT-6.1 SolOpenAI
Overall74−5
Blended / 1M$4.00±0%
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GPT-6.1 Sol vs Claude Sonnet 5.5Overall−5Coding−9Writing−16Support−11Value−5Context1.1M
88% similarGPT-5.6 TerraOpenAI
Overall60−19
Blended / 1M$4.50+13%
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GPT-5.6 Terra vs Claude Sonnet 5.5Overall−19Coding−33Writing−21Support−12Value−19Context1.1M
88% similarClaude Sonnet 5Anthropic
Overall53−26
Blended / 1M$4.00±0%
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Claude Sonnet 5 vs Claude Sonnet 5.5Overall−26Coding−32Writing−21Support−13Value−26Context1M
85% similarOpen weightsDeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeek
Overall53−26
Blended / 1M$1.98−50%
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DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Claude Sonnet 5.5Overall−26Coding−31Writing−13Support−10Value−22Context1M

Similarity is closeness in pulling data out of documents score and in price. Cheaper means at least 30% less for within 5 points. Scores are provisional.

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