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OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra Pro 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 Terra Pro Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)
Vendoropenaianthropic
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-91.6
Input Price$1.00/M$1.00/M
Output Price$6.00/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_index-91.2
ai_index_agentic-82.0
ai_index_coding-100.0

Who wins by task?

TaskOpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra ProAnthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)
SQL Generation 133 172
Code Review 132 168
Code Completion 118 120
Code Refactoring 136 165
Bug Fixing 136 182
Unit Test Generation 124 155
Code Documentation 130 143
Regex Writing 118 136
CI/CD Pipelines 120 145
Frontend Component Design 122 147
Data Analysis 124 172
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 154
ETL Scripting 128 155
JSON Extraction 122 140
Bulk Data Labeling 119 126
OCR / Document Parsing 131 147
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 147
Long-Document Summarization 137 160
Short-Form Summarization 114 123
Blog Post Writing 121 141

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

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