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OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna vs Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-13.

OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)
Vendoropenaianthropic
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score88.291.6
Input Price$0.10/M$1.00/M
Output Price$0.60/M$5.00/M
Context Window1,050,0001,000,000
Max Output128,000128,000
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index86.391.2
ai_index_agentic77.482.0
ai_index_coding100.0100.0

Who wins by task?

TaskOpenAI: GPT-5.6 LunaAnthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)
SQL Generation 172 172
Code Review 167 168
Code Completion 133 120
Code Refactoring 164 165
Bug Fixing 180 182
Unit Test Generation 154 155
Code Documentation 143 143
Regex Writing 137 136
CI/CD Pipelines 144 145
Frontend Component Design 146 147
Data Analysis 171 172
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 154 154
ETL Scripting 154 155
JSON Extraction 149 140
Bulk Data Labeling 135 126
OCR / Document Parsing 146 147
Table Extraction from PDFs 146 147
Long-Document Summarization 160 160
Short-Form Summarization 132 123
Blog Post Writing 140 141

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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