Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.6
High-end Claude for difficult coding, planning, and slower expert reasoning
- Context
- 1M
- Max output
- 128K
- Input / 1M
- $5.00
- Output / 1M
- $25.00
- Output speed
- —
Accepts
- Text input
- Image input
- PDF input
Produces
- Text output
AI model comparison
Compare recorded price, context, output limits, speed, latency, capabilities, and input/output support. Every missing value stays visible, and unsourced benchmarks are excluded.
Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.6 Sol both come up when teams are choosing a model for production work, and the honest answer usually depends on your workload rather than a leaderboard. This page puts their published specifications side by side — context window, token pricing, supported inputs and outputs — so you can see where they actually differ.
Anthropic
High-end Claude for difficult coding, planning, and slower expert reasoning
Accepts
Produces
OpenAI
Frontier GPT-5.6 model for complex professional work, coding, and agentic workflows
Accepts
Produces
At a glance
This is a directional summary of the values recorded in this directory—not a universal quality verdict. Test the finalists on your own prompts before committing.
Where Claude Opus 4.6 leads in recorded data
Where GPT-5.6 Sol leads in recorded data
Context capacity
Higher listed limit
Claude Opus 4.6:1M
GPT-5.6 Sol:1.1M
GPT-5.6 Sol
Maximum output
Higher listed limit
Claude Opus 4.6:128K
GPT-5.6 Sol:128K
Same recorded value
Input price
Lower recorded price
Claude Opus 4.6:$5.00
GPT-5.6 Sol:$5.00
Same recorded value
Output price
Lower recorded price
Claude Opus 4.6:$25.00
GPT-5.6 Sol:$30.00
Claude Opus 4.6
Output speed
Higher recorded throughput
Claude Opus 4.6:—
GPT-5.6 Sol:—
No complete comparison
Time to first token
Lower recorded latency
Claude Opus 4.6:—
GPT-5.6 Sol:—
No complete comparison
Intelligence Index
Higher directory index
Claude Opus 4.6:—
GPT-5.6 Sol:—
No complete comparison
Evidence
A score appears only when both records include a verified source. It is not treated as a universal ranking.
Specifications
| Specification | Claude Opus 4.6 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Model family | claude-opus | gpt-sol |
| Accepted inputs | text, image, pdf | text, image, pdf |
| Produced outputs | text | text |
| Context window | 1M | 1.1MRecorded lead |
| Max output | 128K | 128K |
| Intelligence Index | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $5.00 | $5.00 |
| Output price / 1M | $25.00Recorded lead | $30.00 |
| Output speed | — | — |
| Time to first token | — | — |
| Reasoning mode | Documented | Documented |
| Tool calling | Documented | Documented |
| Image input | Documented | Documented |
| Audio input | Not documented | Not documented |
| Structured output | Not documented | Documented |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Released | Feb 5, 2026 | Jul 9, 2026 |
Workload guidance
On the published numbers, GPT-5.6 Sol accepts the larger context window and GPT-5.6 Sol is cheaper per input token. Which matters more depends on whether your bottleneck is document size or spend — the table above has the exact figures.
Provenance
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Claude Opus 4.6
Anthropic · model record and recorded source
GPT-5.6 Sol
OpenAI · model record and recorded source
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