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AnthropicOpenAILLM matchup

Claude Opus 4.6vs.GPT-6 Sol

Which one is better?

GPT-6 Sol performs better than Claude Opus 4.6 and is cheaper: Claude Opus 4.6 costs 2.5 times as much.

GPT-6 Sol ahead
IntelligenceOverall index, 100 points = average
81.8

Claude Opus 4.6

Rank 52

110.5

GPT-6 Sol

Rank 13

GPT-6 Sol faster
SpeedTokens per second
52

Claude Opus 4.6

111

GPT-6 Sol

GPT-6 Sol cheaper
Price$ per 1M tokens
$10

Claude Opus 4.6

$4

GPT-6 Sol

GPT-6 Sol more popular
Popularity0 to 100
36

Claude Opus 4.6

Rank 392 of 785

73

GPT-6 Sol

Rank 3 of 785

Above 272,000 tokens of context, GPT-6 Sol costs more: $4 input and $15 output per 1M tokens.

Choose Claude Opus 4.6 for

No clear advantage

Choose GPT-6 Sol for

GeneralReasoningCodingMultimodalProductivityAgentsLegalHealth

Where is the difference?

Strengths at a glance

Opus 4.6GPT-6 SolMedian of all ranked models

8510512565CodingGPT-6 SolReasoningGPT-6 SolAgentsGPT-6 SolGeneralGPT-6 SolMultimodalGPT-6 SolLegalGPT-6 SolHealthGPT-6 Sol
CodingGPT-6 Sol ahead
Opus 4.684.0no rank
GPT-6 Sol114.9Rank 11
Median of ranked models84.1

95 % range: Opus 4.6 77.6 to 90.4, GPT-6 Sol 112.2 to 117.6.

AreaOpus 4.6GPT-6 Sol

The same values and verdicts as the bars below. In the close-up the net starts at 65 points, just below the weaker model's lowest value; the reference group average is 100. Not in the net because a model has no own value there or the data are too thin: Mathematics, Knowledge, Finance.

GPT-6 Sol is ahead in 7 of 10 areas, Opus 4.6 in none.

too little data: 3GPT-6 Sol ahead: 7

Areas in the overall index
GeneralGPT-6 Sol +4073.0 to 113.0
ReasoningGPT-6 Sol +3282.4 to 114.1
CodingGPT-6 Sol +3184.0 to 114.9
MultimodalGPT-6 Sol +2977.8 to 106.9
AgentsGPT-6 Sol +2284.7 to 107.2
Mathematicsonly GPT-6 Sol has a score
Knowledgeonly GPT-6 Sol has a score
Specialist fields
LegalGPT-6 Sol +1787.6 to 104.8
HealthGPT-6 Sol +1589.6 to 104.8
Financetoo little data87.4 to 101.3

Bar length shows the gap in index points (full width 15 points, one standard deviation of the reference group). Solid means clearly ahead, hatched not certain yet, a thin grey bar level.

Show 4 more areas that do not count toward the overall index
ProductivityGPT-6 Sol +2871.2 to 99.4
Cybersecurityonly GPT-6 Sol has a score
Searchonly GPT-6 Sol has a score
Educationonly Opus 4.6 has a score

Bar length shows the gap in index points (full width 15 points, one standard deviation of the reference group). Solid means clearly ahead, hatched not certain yet, a thin grey bar level.

Which model for which task?

Everyday tasks, translated from the area values above. Each row names the values it rests on.

Writing and debugging codeGPT-6 SolCoding 84.0 to 114.9
Maths and data analysisGPT-6 SolMathematics without a score for Opus 4.6, Reasoning 82.4 to 114.1
Facts and researchopenKnowledge without a score for Opus 4.6, Search without a score for Opus 4.6
Agents and workflowsGPT-6 SolAgents 84.7 to 107.2
Fast chat repliesGPT-6 Sol52 to 111 tokens per second
Security analysisopenCybersecurity without a score for Opus 4.6
Many requests on a small budgetGPT-6 Sol$10 to $4 per 1M tokens
Finance, legal and medical textsGPT-6 SolFinance 87.4 to 101.3 (too little data), Legal 87.6 to 104.8, Health 89.6 to 104.8
Images, screenshots and PDFsGPT-6 SolMultimodal 77.8 to 106.9

See for yourself: same task, one attempt

The same prompt for both models. We show the latest attempt without fixes; it does not count toward the overall index.

Pelican on a bicycle

Prompt

Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle

Task origin: Simon Willison

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6: Pelican on a bicycle
A community classic for free-form SVG drawing.

Oct 1, 2026 · 85 s · $0.16

Test details
Run date
Oct 1, 2026
API provider
openrouter
Requested API model
anthropic/claude-opus-4.6
Reasoning setting
high
Token limit including reasoning
8,192 tokens
Output tokens
6,460 tokens
Cost of the attempt
$0.1616
Response time
85.1 s
API model reported in response
anthropic/claude-opus-4.6
Pinned endpoint
Anthropic | anthropic/claude-4.6-opus-20260205
Temperature
Provider default
Test protocol
community-visual-tests-v1
Technical checks
Passed, not a quality rating

Visually reviewed. This individual test does not establish overall model quality.

GPT-6 Sol

GPT-6 Sol: Pelican on a bicycle
A community classic for free-form SVG drawing.

Oct 1, 2026 · 80 s · $0.04

Test details
Run date
Oct 1, 2026
API provider
openrouter
Requested API model
openai/gpt-6-sol
Reasoning setting
high
Token limit including reasoning
8,192 tokens
Output tokens
4,389 tokens
Cost of the attempt
$0.0439
Response time
80.5 s
API model reported in response
openai/gpt-6-sol
Pinned endpoint
OpenAI | openai/gpt-6-sol-20260922
Temperature
Provider default
Test protocol
community-visual-tests-v1
Technical checks
Passed, not a quality rating

Visually reviewed. This individual test does not establish overall model quality.

SVG short test

SVG short test

One SVG task with the same fixed settings for every model, without hidden thinking.

Prompt

Return only one standalone SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle. Use viewBox="0 0 800 600", simple shapes, two clearly visible wheels and a recognizable pelican with a long beak. At most 30 SVG elements and 1800 characters. No Markdown, explanations, comments, scripts, animation, CSS or external resources.

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6: SVG short test

Oct 14, 2026 · $0.0196

Test details
Test run
Oct 14, 2026
Provider
anthropic
API model
anthropic/claude-opus-4.6
Output
766 tokens
Reasoning
API reports 0 reasoning tokens
Cost of the attempt
$0.0196
Test round
43b8c5c46830

GPT-6 Sol

Unavailable in this round

Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-6 Sol in the overall index

Every model with a place in the overall index, both models of this matchup highlighted. You can add or hide other models.

Overall index (Gradually Meta-Score v4)

20 of 92 models

4 models in this view are measured at a lower reasoning effort than max in the overall index. Dashed column: lower reasoning effort than the top.

Claude Opus 5.5max126.1
Gemini 4 Carbonhigh125.8
Claude Fable 5.1max123.8
Claude Sonnet 5.5max122.8
Gemini 4 Argonhigh122.3
GPT-6 Astramax121.3
GPT-6.1 Solmax119.2
Muse Wonder Fullmax118.3
Claude Opus 5max117.2
Muse Wondermax113.4
Kimi K3.1 Promax112.9
Claude Fable 5max112.5
GPT-6 Solmax110.5
GPT-5.6 Solmax108.7
Muse Spark 1.3max107.4
Gemini 3.7 Flashhigh107.1
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017max106.6
Gemini 3.8 Flashhigh106.5
GPT-6.1 Terramax105.3
Claude Opus 4.6max81.8

Popularity compared

How often the models are searched for, used and mentioned, on a scale from 0 to 100.

GPT-6 Sol is more popular than Claude Opus 4.6: 73 to 36 out of 100.

Over time

Weekly values from October 18, 2026 to November 7, 2026

Claude Opus 4.6GPT-6 Sol

All data side by side

The better value is bold. For the overall index only when the gap is clear.

MetricClaude Opus 4.6GPT-6 Sol
Intelligence
Overall indexpoints, 100 = reference group average, higher is better81.8110.5
RankRank 52 of 92Rank 13 of 92
Price per 1M tokens
Inputwhat you send$5$2above 272,000 tokens: $4
Outputwhat the model writes$25$10above 272,000 tokens: $15
Cost per task (own tests)average of 3 original-protocol tasks both models passed (SVG short test not included)$0.18$0.044
Speed
Tokens per second52111
Popularity
Popularitysearch, usage and mentions, 0 to 10036Rank 392 of 78573Rank 3 of 785
Technical
Context windowhow much text the model reads at once1 M tokens≈ 1,500 A4 pages1.05 M tokens≈ 1,580 A4 pages
Knowledge cutoffMay 2025Apr 20, 2026
ReleasedFebruary 2026Sep 22, 2026
AvailabilityActiveActive
Open weightsnono

Prices without caching or batch discounts · Page count as a rule of thumb from Artificial Analysis

Is there a better choice?

Successor of Opus 4.6Claude Opus 4.7

Overall index 93.5, rank 39$5 input and $25 output per 1M tokens

GPT-6 Sol vs. Claude Opus 4.7
Successor of GPT-6 SolGPT-6.1 Sol

Overall index 119.2, rank 7$2 input and $10 output per 1M tokens

Opus 4.6 vs. GPT-6.1 Sol
As cheap as GPT-6 SolClaude Sonnet 5.5

Overall index 122.8, rank 4$2 input and $10 output per 1M tokens

GPT-6 Sol vs. Claude Sonnet 5.5

Shared benchmarks

Single results from the same benchmark version, task and metric. A value is bold only with the same test setup and a clear gap.

A: Claude Opus 4.6B: GPT-6 Sol

LMArena Code Arena WebDevOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,546GPT-6 Sol: 1,678LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,503GPT-6 Sol: 1,458LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Vision, Style ControlOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,299GPT-6 Sol: 1,266LMArenaAs of 10/19/2026
MedCodeOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 48.2%GPT-6 Sol: 47.1%Vals AIAs of 10/29/2026
MedScribeOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 86.7%GPT-6 Sol: 82.0%Vals AIAs of 10/29/2026
MMMU-ProOverall · higher is betterClaude Opus 4.6: 75.4%GPT-6 Sol: 82.9%Artificial AnalysisAs of 11/07/2026
Vibe Code Bench v1.1Overall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 57.6%GPT-6 Sol: 87.8%Vals AIAs of 11/05/2026
LMArena Code Arena WebDevHTML development · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,559GPT-6 Sol: 1,680LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlBusiness, management and finance · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,500GPT-6 Sol: 1,448LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Vision, Style ControlCreative writing with images · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,309GPT-6 Sol: 1,252LMArenaAs of 10/19/2026
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LMArena Code Arena WebDevImage to WebDev · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,543GPT-6 Sol: 1,660LMArenaAs of 10/19/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlChinese · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,550GPT-6 Sol: 1,485LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Vision, Style ControlDiagram understanding · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,324GPT-6 Sol: 1,303LMArenaAs of 10/19/2026
LMArena Code Arena WebDevReact development · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,539GPT-6 Sol: 1,680LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlCoding · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,548GPT-6 Sol: 1,519LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Vision, Style ControlEnglish · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,301GPT-6 Sol: 1,255LMArenaAs of 10/19/2026
LMArena Code Arena WebDevWeb development · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,546GPT-6 Sol: 1,678LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlCreative writing · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,499GPT-6 Sol: 1,435LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Vision, Style ControlHomework · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,325GPT-6 Sol: 1,306LMArenaAs of 10/19/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlEnglish · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,513GPT-6 Sol: 1,459LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Vision, Style ControlOptical character recognition · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,314GPT-6 Sol: 1,285LMArenaAs of 10/19/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlEntertainment, sports and media · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,491GPT-6 Sol: 1,430LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlExcluding ties · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,522GPT-6 Sol: 1,463LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlExpert prompts · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,544GPT-6 Sol: 1,497LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlFrench prompts · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,509GPT-6 Sol: 1,476LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlGerman prompts · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,507GPT-6 Sol: 1,452LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlHard prompts · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,531GPT-6 Sol: 1,484LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlHard prompts, English · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,535GPT-6 Sol: 1,484LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlInstruction following · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,511GPT-6 Sol: 1,449LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlJapanese prompts · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,498GPT-6 Sol: 1,430LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlKorean prompts · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,447GPT-6 Sol: 1,414LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlLegal and government · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,509GPT-6 Sol: 1,459LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlLife, physical and social science · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,527GPT-6 Sol: 1,474LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlLonger queries · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,521GPT-6 Sol: 1,467LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlMath · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,516GPT-6 Sol: 1,448LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlMathematical professions · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,524GPT-6 Sol: 1,463LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlMedicine and healthcare · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,517GPT-6 Sol: 1,461LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlMulti-turn · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,517GPT-6 Sol: 1,466LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlNon-English · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,488GPT-6 Sol: 1,447LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlPolish prompts · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,503GPT-6 Sol: 1,459LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlRussian prompts · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,505GPT-6 Sol: 1,462LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlSoftware and IT services · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,537GPT-6 Sol: 1,504LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlSpanish prompts · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,494GPT-6 Sol: 1,445LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlWriting, literature and language · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Opus 4.6: 1,500GPT-6 Sol: 1,436LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026

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