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Claude Opus 4.5 vs GPT-5.6 Sol

Published LiveBench scores across all seven categories, live list pricing, context windows, and the measured cost of a point of capability — for both models, side by side.

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GPT-5.6 Sol wins outright — it scores higher and costs less.

GPT-5.6 Sol leads by 8.5 points overall while listing 2.5× cheaper per blended million tokens. There is no trade-off to reason about here; the only reason to pick the other is a constraint this table does not show, like an existing contract, a region, or a provider you are already on.

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Claude Opus 4.5

Blended / 1M
$10.00
Context
200K
Released
Nov 24, 2025
Overall score
72.6
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GPT-5.6 Sol

Blended / 1M
$4.00
Context
1.1M
Released
Jul 9, 2026
Overall score
81.1
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Specs and pricing

MetricClaude Opus 4.5GPT-5.6 Sol
LiveBench overall

Mean of the seven LiveBench category scores, 0–100. Higher is better.

72.681.1win
Cost per point

Measured benchmark spend divided by overall score — dollars per point of capability.

$0.3211$0.2870
Blended price / 1M

3:1 input:output mix, the usual shape of production traffic.

$10.00$4.00win
Input price / 1M$5.00$2.00win
Output price / 1M$25.00$10.00win
Cached input / 1M

Price of an input token served from the prompt cache, where the provider publishes one.

$0.500$0.200win
Context window200K1.1Mwin
Max output tokens64K128Kwin

Benchmarks by category

An overall score averages away the thing you probably care about. These are the seven LiveBench categories scored separately — Claude Opus 4.5 on top, GPT-5.6 Sol below, both out of 100.

Agentic coding
39.7
56.2
Coding
79.7
83.9
Reasoning
80.1
91.7
Mathematics
90.4
96.2
Data analysis
74.4
79.8
Language
81.3
87.7
Instruction following
62.5
71.8

What each one costs to run

Per-token prices are hard to feel. These are monthly list costs for both models across five workload shapes, using each provider's published cached-input rate where there is one.

WorkloadClaude Opus 4.5GPT-5.6 Sol
Support chatbot

1.2K in / 400 out × 200K requests

$2876.00/mo$1150.40/mo
RAG assistant

8K in / 600 out × 100K requests

$3700.00/mo$1480.00/mo
Coding agent

40K in / 4K out × 20K requests

$3480.00/mo$1392.00/mo
Document extraction

20K in / 1.5K out × 50K requests

$6650.00/mo$2660.00/mo
Bulk classification

500 in / 20 out × 5M requests

$12,750/mo$5100.00/mo
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Which should you pick?

Quality matters more than the bill

GPT-5.6 Sol

Highest overall LiveBench score of the two at 81.1.

The workload is coding or agentic work

GPT-5.6 Sol

Leads on agentic coding — 56.2 against 39.7.

You need to fit large documents in one call

GPT-5.6 Sol

Wider context window — 1.1M against 200K.

Claude Opus 4.5 vs GPT-5.6 Sol FAQ

Which is better, Claude Opus 4.5 or GPT-5.6 Sol?

GPT-5.6 Sol wins outright — it scores higher and costs less. GPT-5.6 Sol leads by 8.5 points overall while listing 2.5× cheaper per blended million tokens. There is no trade-off to reason about here; the only reason to pick the other is a constraint this table does not show, like an existing contract, a region, or a provider you are already on.

Is Claude Opus 4.5 cheaper than GPT-5.6 Sol?

GPT-5.6 Sol is cheaper. On a 3:1 input:output blend, Claude Opus 4.5 lists at $10.00 per million tokens and GPT-5.6 Sol at $4.00 — GPT-5.6 Sol is 2.5× cheaper. Input and output are priced separately — Claude Opus 4.5 charges $5.00 in and $25.00 out, GPT-5.6 Sol charges $2.00 and $10.00 — so the model that looks cheaper flips depending on how output-heavy your workload is.

Claude Opus 4.5 vs GPT-5.6 Sol: which scores higher on benchmarks?

Claude Opus 4.5 scores 72.6 and GPT-5.6 Sol scores 81.1 overall on LiveBench, the mean of its seven categories. That is a 8.5-point lead for GPT-5.6 Sol. Category scores differ from the overall figure — a model can lead on reasoning and trail on coding, which the per-category table above breaks out.

Which gives better value for money, Claude Opus 4.5 or GPT-5.6 Sol?

They are close. Claude Opus 4.5 costs $0.3211 per point of overall capability and GPT-5.6 Sol costs $0.2870, a difference small enough that workload shape will matter more than the rate.

Does Claude Opus 4.5 or GPT-5.6 Sol have a bigger context window?

GPT-5.6 Sol has the larger context window: 200K for Claude Opus 4.5 against 1.1M for GPT-5.6 Sol. Note that a window you can fill is not a window you should fill — retrieval quality usually degrades well before the limit, and you pay for every token you put in it.

Do Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.6 Sol support prompt caching?

Both publish a cached-input rate: $0.500 per million for Claude Opus 4.5 and $0.200 for GPT-5.6 Sol, against full input rates of $5.00 and $2.00. On a workload with a long stable prefix — a system prompt, a tool schema, a retrieved corpus — that changes the economics more than the headline price does.

Related comparisons

How these numbers are produced

  • Price — provider list price from OpenRouter, refreshed every 15 minutes. “Blended” is a 3:1 input:output mix.
  • ScoresLiveBench release 2026-06-25, using their own category map. Each model shows its strongest published run. A blank means “not evaluated”, never “bad”.
  • Cost per point — the measured dollars LiveBench spent on the run, divided by the score it earned.
  • “Win” — awarded only past a threshold: one full point on a benchmark score, 10% on a price, 25% on a context window. Anything tighter reports as a tie, because effort settings alone move a LiveBench score by more than that.

Published benchmarks rank models on someone else's tasks. Before committing, see LLM & agent evaluation for building an eval on your own.