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Claude Opus 5 vs GPT 5.6-Sol

Claude Opus 5 leads on 11 of 14 shared benchmarks; GPT 5.6-Sol is ~20% cheaper per blended million tokens.

GPQA Diamond93.4% · 94.1%
GPT 5.6-Sol leads
HLE56.3% · 44.5%
Claude Opus 5 leads
Terminal-Bench 2.189.1% · 88.8%
Claude Opus 5 leads
Terminal-Bench 3.043.3% · 34.4%
Claude Opus 5 leads
Terminal-Bench 4.051.8% · 39.9%
Claude Opus 5 leads
DeepSWE v1.174% · 73%
Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5 leads on 11 of 14 shared benchmarks; GPT 5.6-Sol is ~20% cheaper per blended million tokens.

DimensionClaude Opus 5GPT 5.6-Sol
GPQA Diamond93.4%94.1%
HLE56.3%44.5%
Terminal-Bench 2.189.1%88.8%
Terminal-Bench 3.043.3%34.4%
Terminal-Bench 4.051.8%39.9%
DeepSWE v1.174%73%
ProgramBench37%23%
NL2Repo-Bench75.3%56.8%
CyberGym—84.5%
SEC-Bench Pro—74.3%
ExploitGym22.1%33.7%
HLE (w/tools)63.6%—
Automation-Bench50.3%45.8%
Agents' Last Exam28.6%26.7%
Chartography (w/tools)84%79.9%
BabyVision (w/tools)94.1%88.9%
ZeroBench-main (w/tools)52%53%
Blended price$15.00 /1M$12.00 /1M
Full priceInput · Output · Cached input$5.00 · $25.00 · $0.500$4.00 · $20.00 · $0.400
Context window1,000K1,050K

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Claude Opus 5
$450/mo
GPT 5.6-Sol
$360/mo

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