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Claude 3.5 SonnetvsGPT-5.5
GPT-5.5 leads 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. Claude 3.5 Sonnet is 1.9x cheaper per token. GPT-5.5 has the larger context window (1M tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
0 – 2
GPT-5.5 leads
Cheaper per token
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
1.9x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
GPT-5.5
1M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 94.2446%
Anthropic · OpenAI
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic · released 2024-10-22
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
2 shared · 2 only Claude 3.5 Sonnet · 19 only GPT-5.5| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | GPT-5.5 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 2 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 55.3% ↗epoch | 90.7% ↗epoch | -35.4 pt | GPT-5.5 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 8.5% ↗epoch | 84.4% ↗epoch | -75.9 pt | GPT-5.5 |
| Only Claude 3.5 Sonnet reports · 2 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 49% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| AIME 2025 | 3.3% ↗matharena | not reported | — | — |
| Only GPT-5.5 reports · 19 | ||||
| AIME 2026 | not reported | 100% ↗matharena ⚠ | — | — |
| LMArena Elo | not reported | 1465.6 ↗ | — | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 (Verified) | not reported | 95% ↗ | — | — |
| ARC-AGI-2 (Verified) | not reported | 85% ↗ | — | — |
| BrowseComp | not reported | 84.4% ↗ | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 1-3 | not reported | 51.7% ↗ | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | not reported | 35.4% ↗ | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 72.5% ↗epoch | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 85.3% ↗epoch | — | — |
| GDPval (wins or ties) | not reported | 84.9% ↗ | — | — |
| MCP Atlas | not reported | 75.3% ↗ | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro (no tools) | not reported | 81.2% ↗ | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro (with tools) | not reported | 83.2% ↗ | — | — |
| OSWorld-Verified | not reported | 78.7% ↗ | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | not reported | 63% ↗epoch | — | — |
| SWE-Bench Pro | not reported | 58.6% ↗ | — | — |
| Tau2-bench Telecom | not reported | 98% ↗ | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | not reported | 82.7% ↗ | — | — |
| Toolathlon | not reported | 55.6% ↗ | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Claude 3.5 Sonnet minus GPT-5.5 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | GPT-5.5 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 200K tokens | 1M tokens | GPT-5.5 |
| Max output | 8K tokens | 128K tokens | GPT-5.5 |
| Input price / 1M | $3 ↗ | $5 ↗ | Claude 3.5 Sonnet |
| Output price / 1M | $15 ↗ | $30 ↗ | Claude 3.5 Sonnet |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.3 ↗ | $0.5 ↗ | Claude 3.5 Sonnet |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $18 | $35 | Claude 3.5 Sonnet |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision | Tie |
| Released | 2024-10-22 | 2026-04-23 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 4 | 21 | — |
Reliability
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