Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-5
Compare Claude Sonnet 4.6 by Anthropic against GPT-5 by OpenAI, in 3 community votes, claude sonnet 4.6 and gpt-5 are closely matched, context windows of 1.0M vs 400K, tested across 51 shared challenges. Updated June 2026.
Which is better, Claude Sonnet 4.6 or GPT-5?
Claude Sonnet 4.6 and GPT-5 are closely matched based on 3 community votes. Claude Sonnet 4.6 costs $3/M input tokens vs $1.25/M for GPT-5. Context windows: 1000K vs 400K tokens. Compare their real outputs side by side below.
Key Differences Between Claude Sonnet 4.6 and GPT-5
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is made by anthropic while GPT-5 is from openai. Claude Sonnet 4.6 has a 1000K token context window compared to GPT-5's 400K. On pricing, Claude Sonnet 4.6 costs $3/M input tokens vs $1.25/M for GPT-5. In community voting, In 3 community votes, Claude Sonnet 4.6 and GPT-5 are closely matched.
In 3 community votes, Claude Sonnet 4.6 and GPT-5 are closely matched. Claude Sonnet 4.6 and GPT-5 perform similarly across challenge categories. Based on blind community voting from the Rival open dataset of 3+ human preference judgments for this pair.
Per 1M tokens
GPT-5 is cheaper on both — 2.4× input, 1.5× output
Votes are tied. Claude Sonnet 4.6 is newer and likely incorporates more recent improvements.
Style Comparison
Claude Sonnet 4.6 uses 19.1x more emoji
