Claude 4.6 Sonnet vs GPT-5
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 Claude 4.6 SonnetAnthropic |  GPT-5OpenAI | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Family | Claude | GPT |
| Release date | 2026-02-17 | 2025-08-07 |
| Context window | 1,000,000 tokens | 400,000 tokens |
| Parameters | — | — |
| Modality | text, vision | text, vision, audio |
| License | proprietary | proprietary |
| Source | proprietary | proprietary |
| Description | Anthropic's mid-tier flagship — released 12 days after Opus 4.6 and matching most of its capabilities at ~40% the API cost ($3/$15 per 1M tokens). 1M-token context. | OpenAI's flagship general-purpose model. Superseded by GPT-5.5 in April 2026. |
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| Benchmarks | ||
| MMLU-Pro | 85.4% | 85.1% |
| GPQA-D | 85.8% | 87.3% |
| HumanEval | 95.9% | 95.2% |
| Aider | 83.6% | 85.4% |
| AIME-25 | 87.4% | 91.0% |
| LiveCB | 73.8% | 74.5% |
| MMMU | — | 74.1% |
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