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Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs GPT-6.1 Sol

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Winner summary

Claude Sonnet 5.5 wins 4 of 6 shared benchmarks. Leads in speed.

Category leads
speed·Claude Sonnet 5.5
Hype vs Reality
Claude Sonnet 5.5
#11 by perf·#10 by attention
DESERVED
GPT-6.1 Sol
no bench·#1 by attention
QUIET
Best value
Claude Sonnet 5.5
12.5 pts/$
$6.00/M
GPT-6.1 Sol
n/a
$6.00/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-6.1 Sol
Artificial Analysis · CritPt
GPT-6.1 Sol leads by +0.3
Claude Sonnet 5.5
31.4
GPT-6.1 Sol
31.7
Artificial Analysis · GDPval
Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads by +13.2
Claude Sonnet 5.5
67.0
GPT-6.1 Sol
53.8
Artificial Analysis · Humanity's Last Exam
Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads by +2.1
Claude Sonnet 5.5
55.0
GPT-6.1 Sol
52.9
Artificial Analysis · Long Context Reasoning
GPT-6.1 Sol leads by +0.3
Claude Sonnet 5.5
82.7
GPT-6.1 Sol
83.0
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads by +4.2
Claude Sonnet 5.5
56.0
GPT-6.1 Sol
51.8
Artificial Analysis · SciCode
Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads by +6.8
Claude Sonnet 5.5
61.0
GPT-6.1 Sol
54.2
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5GPT-6.1 Sol
Artificial Analysis · CritPt
31.431.7
Artificial Analysis · GDPval
67.053.8
Artificial Analysis · Humanity's Last Exam
55.052.9
Artificial Analysis · Long Context Reasoning
82.783.0
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
56.051.8
Artificial Analysis · SciCode
61.054.2
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-6.1 Sol$2.00$10.001.1M tokens (~525 books)$40.00