Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) vs o1
Compare Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) by Anthropic against o1 by OpenAI, in 4 community votes, o1 wins 75% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 200K vs 128K, tested across 54 shared challenges. Updated June 2026.
Which is better, Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) or o1?
o1 is the better choice overall, winning 75% of 4 blind community votes on Rival. Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) costs $3/M input tokens vs $15/M for o1. Context windows: 200K vs 128K tokens. Compare their real outputs side by side below.
Key Differences Between Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) and o1
Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) is made by anthropic while o1 is from openai. Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) has a 200K token context window compared to o1's 128K. On pricing, Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) costs $3/M input tokens vs $15/M for o1. In community voting, In 4 community votes, o1 wins 75% of head-to-head duels.
In 4 community votes, o1 wins 75% of head-to-head duels. o1 leads in Conversation. Based on blind community voting from the Rival open dataset of 4+ human preference judgments for this pair.
Per 1M tokens
Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) is cheaper on both — 5.0× input, 4.0× output
Pick o1. In 4 blind votes, o1 wins 75% of the time. That's not luck.
o1 particularly excels in Conversation. Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) is 4.0x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Style Comparison
o1 uses 15.0x more bold
