Head to head

Claude Sonnet 5 vs GPT-6 Sol

⚖ Claude Sonnet 5 wins 3 of 4 categories.

Scores by category

CategoryClaude Sonnet 5GPT-6 Sol
Overall5352
Writing5336
Support5637
Coding5562

Provisional scores, 0 to 100 among the models we track, from Arena and Epoch AI. Value weighs the overall score against cost.

Price and specs

Claude Sonnet 5GPT-6 Sol
VendorAnthropicOpenAI
Released2026-06-292026-09-22
Context window1M1.1M
Open weightsNoNo
Input per 1M tokens$2.00$2.00
Output per 1M tokens$10.00$10.00
Per 1,000 tasks$8.00$8.00
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