Claude Opus 5.5 (Canary Checkpoint) vs GPT-6.1 Sol

A direct, empirical evaluation of Claude Opus 5.5 (Canary Checkpoint) (Anthropic) against GPT-6.1 Sol (OpenAI).

Claude Opus 5.5 (Canary Checkpoint)

Developed by Anthropic · Frontier Mixture-of-Experts Architecture parameters

Autonomous repository issue resolution (81.4% SWE-bench Verified), native 3D glTF/OBJ mesh synthesis, and sub-300ms time-to-first-token.

GPT-6.1 Sol

Developed by OpenAI · Proprietary Frontier Workhorse Engine parameters

Near-Astra reasoning at 1/5th price ($1.25/$5.00), SWE-bench Verified 74.8%, OSWorld 2.0 desktop agent automation, and sub-80ms Ultrafast Mode.

Metric Claude Opus 5.5 (Canary Checkpoint) GPT-6.1 Sol
SWE-bench Verified 81.4% 74.8%
MMLU-Pro 94.2% 92.4%
MATH-500 97.9% 96.2%
Context Window 1,000,000 tokens 1,000,000 tokens
Input Pricing (per 1M) $5.00 $1.25
Output Pricing (per 1M) $25.00 $5.00