Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) vs GPT-5
Compare Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) by Anthropic against GPT-5 by OpenAI, context windows of 200K vs 400K, tested across 52 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
GPT-5
Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22)Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, GPT-5 has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22)
Input
$3.00
Output
$15.00
GPT-5
Input
$1.25
2.4× cheaper
Output
$10.00
1.5× cheaper
GPT-5 is cheaper on both — 2.4× input, 1.5× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
58%
Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) uses 5.6x more sentence length
Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22)
GPT-5
66%Vocabulary65%
74wSentence Length13w
0.72Hedging0.20
0.3Bold0.2
8.9Lists4.6
0.00Emoji0.00
0.06Headings0.16
0.09Transitions0.03
Based on 21 + 16 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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