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Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs GPT-5.6 Terra

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Winner summary

Claude Sonnet 5.5 wins 15 of 16 shared benchmarks. Leads in speed · agentic · coding.

Category leads
speed·Claude Sonnet 5.5agentic·Claude Sonnet 5.5coding·Claude Sonnet 5.5math·Claude Sonnet 5.5general·Claude Sonnet 5.5knowledge·Claude Sonnet 5.5
Hype vs Reality
Claude Sonnet 5.5
#11 by perf·#10 by attention
DESERVED
GPT-5.6 Terra
#29 by perf·#4 by attention
DESERVED
Best value
1.3x better value than GPT-5.6 Terra
Claude Sonnet 5.5
12.5 pts/$
$6.00/M
GPT-5.6 Terra
9.5 pts/$
$7.00/M
Vendor risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
Claude Sonnet 5.5GPT-5.6 Terra
Artificial Analysis · CritPt
Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads by +1.4
Claude Sonnet 5.5
31.4
GPT-5.6 Terra
30.0
Artificial Analysis · GDPval
Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads by +19.3
Claude Sonnet 5.5
67.0
GPT-5.6 Terra
47.7
Artificial Analysis · Humanity's Last Exam
Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads by +12.1
Claude Sonnet 5.5
55.0
GPT-5.6 Terra
42.9
Artificial Analysis · Long Context Reasoning
GPT-5.6 Terra leads by +0.3
Claude Sonnet 5.5
82.7
GPT-5.6 Terra
83.0
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads by +13.9
Claude Sonnet 5.5
56.0
GPT-5.6 Terra
42.1
Artificial Analysis · SciCode
Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads by +6.0
Claude Sonnet 5.5
61.0
GPT-5.6 Terra
55.0
APEX-Agents
Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads by +17.3
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
Claude Sonnet 5.5
75.5
GPT-5.6 Terra
58.2
Frontiercode
Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads by +10.8
Claude Sonnet 5.5
52.1
GPT-5.6 Terra
41.3
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private
Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads by +9.8
Claude Sonnet 5.5
80.5
GPT-5.6 Terra
70.7
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private
Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads by +2.8
Claude Sonnet 5.5
88.8
GPT-5.6 Terra
86.0
Furniture Assembly
Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads by +29.8
Claude Sonnet 5.5
64.3
GPT-5.6 Terra
34.5
GPQA diamond
Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads by +3.0
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Claude Sonnet 5.5
94.1
GPT-5.6 Terra
91.1
Mystery Game Puzzles
Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads by +33.1
Claude Sonnet 5.5
61.5
GPT-5.6 Terra
28.4
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads by +0.3
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Claude Sonnet 5.5
100.0
GPT-5.6 Terra
99.7
Proofbench
Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads by +26.0
Claude Sonnet 5.5
100.0
GPT-5.6 Terra
74.0
SimpleQA Verified
Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads by +3.3
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
Claude Sonnet 5.5
46.5
GPT-5.6 Terra
43.2
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5GPT-5.6 Terra
Artificial Analysis · CritPt
31.430.0
Artificial Analysis · GDPval
67.047.7
Artificial Analysis · Humanity's Last Exam
55.042.9
Artificial Analysis · Long Context Reasoning
82.783.0
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
56.042.1
Artificial Analysis · SciCode
61.055.0
APEX-Agents
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
75.558.2
Frontiercode
52.141.3
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private
80.570.7
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private
88.886.0
Furniture Assembly
64.334.5
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
94.191.1
Mystery Game Puzzles
61.528.4
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
100.099.7
Proofbench
100.074.0
SimpleQA Verified
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
46.543.2
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Anthropic logoClaude Sonnet 5.5$2.00$10.001.0M tokens (~500 books)$40.00
OpenAI logoGPT-5.6 Terra$2.00$12.001.1M tokens (~525 books)$45.00