Claude Opus 5 vs GPT-6 Sol: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Claude Opus 5 is developed by Anthropic, while GPT-6 Sol comes from OpenAI. Claude Opus 5 was released in July 2026, and GPT-6 Sol followed 2 months later in September 2026.
The two models share 3 published benchmarks. Claude Opus 5 leads on 2 of them. The widest gaps are on OSWorld 2.0, where Claude Opus 5 scores 70.6% against 64.4%; FrontierCode 1.1, where Claude Opus 5 scores 53.4% against 49.3%. Averaged across everything we track, Claude Opus 5 sits at 55.0% and GPT-6 Sol at 54.4%.
GPT-6 Sol is the cheaper API at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, roughly 3 times cheaper than Claude Opus 5 at $5 and $25. Both accept a context window of about 1M tokens. Both accept text and images as input.
| Characteristic | Claude Opus 5 | GPT-6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Release Date | July 24, 2026 | September 22, 2026 |
| Parameters | — | — |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | 1.0M | 1.1M |
| Context (output) | 128K | 128K |
| Input Price / 1M | $5.00 | $2.00 |
| Output Price / 1M | $25.00 | $10.00 |
| Average Score | 55.0% | 54.4% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| OSWorld 2.0 | 70.6% | 64.4% |
| FrontierCode 1.1 | 53.4% | 49.3% |
| DeepSWE 1.1 | 68.8% | 68.8% |
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Verdict
GPT-6 Sol leads in 3 out of 4 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Claude Opus 5 — 0.5, GPT-6 Sol — 0.5.
GPT-6 Sol is 2.5x cheaper: input $2.00/1M vs $5.00/1M tokens.
GPT-6 Sol supports a larger context: 1M vs 1M tokens.
GPT-6 Sol is newer: released 9/22/2026 vs 7/24/2026.
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