Claude Opus 5.5 (Canary Checkpoint) vs GPT-6 Sol

A direct, empirical evaluation of Claude Opus 5.5 (Canary Checkpoint) (Anthropic) against GPT-6 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 Sol

Developed by OpenAI · Proprietary Frontier Workhorse parameters

High-efficiency agentic software development, OSWorld computer use, repository refactoring, and enterprise workflow execution at 80% lower cost per task than Claude Opus.

Metric Claude Opus 5.5 (Canary Checkpoint) GPT-6 Sol
SWE-bench Verified 81.4% 68.8%
MMLU-Pro 94.2% 90.8%
MATH-500 97.9% 96.4%
Context Window 1,000,000 tokens 1,000,000 tokens
Input Pricing (per 1M) $5.00 $2.00
Output Pricing (per 1M) $25.00 $10.00