Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs GPT-6.1 Sol

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

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Developed by Anthropic · Proprietary Frontier Dynamic Hybrid Reasoner parameters

Terminal-Bench 4.0 execution (70.6%), SWE-bench Verified coding (82.4%), GitHub Copilot multi-file edits, and low-latency autonomous agentic coding at $2/$10 pricing.

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 Sonnet 5.5 GPT-6.1 Sol
SWE-bench Verified 82.4% 74.8%
MMLU-Pro 88.4% 92.4%
MATH-500 95.2% 96.2%
Context Window 1,000,000 tokens 1,000,000 tokens
Input Pricing (per 1M) $2.00 $1.25
Output Pricing (per 1M) $10.00 $5.00