Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) vs o3 Mini
Compare Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) by Anthropic against o3 Mini by OpenAI, in 9 community votes, claude sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) wins 67% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 200K vs 64K, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Web Design: Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) wins 75% of votes
Image Generation: Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) wins 75% of votes
Our Verdict
Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22)Winner
o3 MiniRunner-up
Pick Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22). In 9 blind votes, Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) wins 67% of the time. That's not luck.
Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) particularly excels in Web Design, Image Generation. o3 Mini is 3.4x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Clear winner
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22)
Input
$3.00
Output
$15.00
o3 Mini
Input
$1.10
2.7× cheaper
Output
$4.40
3.4× cheaper
o3 Mini is cheaper on both — 2.7× input, 3.4× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
48%
o3 Mini uses 11.6x more bold
Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22)
o3 Mini
66%Vocabulary65%
74wSentence Length17w
0.72Hedging0.74
0.3Bold3.9
8.9Lists1.7
0.00Emoji0.00
0.06Headings0.47
0.09Transitions0.38
Based on 21 + 12 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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