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GPT-5.6 Sol vs Claude Opus 5.5

GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI
Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic
Our take

Claude Opus 5.5 wins 4 of 4 categories.

Overall6897Best
Coding67100Best
Writing67100Best
Support6690Best
Value5483Best
Input / 1M$4.00$4.00
Output / 1M$20.00$20.00
Blended / 1M$8.00$8.00
Context window1.1MBest1M
Open weightsNoNo
Released9 Jul 202622 Sept 2026

Your monthly bill

50k
GPT-5.6 Sol$1.6kCheapest
Claude Opus 5.5$1.6kCheapest
List prices, a quarter of the tokens as output. Scores are provisional, from Arena and Epoch AI.