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Claude Sonnet 5 vs GPT-6 Astra
2 of 5Language Models · verified 5 Sept 2026
Claude Sonnet 5Anthropiccurrent
GPT-6 AstraOpenAIcurrent| Specification | Claude Sonnet 5 | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| Summary | Near-Opus quality on coding and agentic work at Sonnet cost. | Saturates three of the benchmarks it reports, and ships disabled for enterprise. |
| Context | 1M | 1.05M |
| Input ($/Mtok) | $3 | $10 |
| Output ($/Mtok) | $15 | $50 |
| Licence | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Max output | 128K | 128K |
| Parameters | — | Not published |
| Released | — | 3 Sep 2026 |
| Model ID | claude-sonnet-5 | gpt-6-astra |
| Category | Language Models | Language Models |
| Official | Anthropic ↗ | — |
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Claude Sonnet 5
- Adaptive thinking on by default
- New tokenizer — roughly 30% more tokens for the same text
- Introductory $2/$10 through 31 Aug 2026
Best for high-volume production.
GPT-6 Astra
- 97.6% on FrontierMath Tier 4, 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3 and 100% on ExploitBench
- Above 272K input tokens the whole request reprices: input and cache at 2x, output at 1.5x
- Rolls out to OpenAI's Daybreak cyber programme first, and arrives switched off for enterprise
Best for hard reasoning and computer use.