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Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs GPT-6 Astra

Compare Claude Sonnet 4.5 and GPT-6 Astra side-by-side. See how these vision models stack up in Object Detection, Classification, Image Captioning, OCR, and Open Prompt.

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Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs GPT-6 Astra Comparison Table

Evals updated September 5, 2026Pricing updated September 5, 2026

PropertyClaude Sonnet 4.5GPT-6 Astra
OrganizationAnthropicOpenAI
Categoryclosedclosed
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateSep 2025Sep 2026
Context Window200K1.1M
ParametersUndisclosed
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$3.00$10.00
Output $/1M$15.00$50.00
Vision Tasks
CaptioningDemoDemo
Chart Question Answering
ClassificationDemoDemo
Document Question Answering
Image Tagging
Multi-Label Classification
Object DetectionDemoDemo
OCRDemoDemo
Vision Language
Visual Question AnsweringDemoDemo
Model Features
Foundation Vision
LLMs with Vision Capabilities
Multimodal Vision
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 6 vision tasks, pooled at low effort
OverallNot evaluated
86.6%
Avg cost / sample$0.030
Avg speed / sample6.67s
By task
Object Detection (low)
82.1%
±0.8, Mean of 3 runs, range 81.0 to 82.7
$0.050
Object Detection (high)
83.6%
±0.8, Mean of 3 runs, range 82.8 to 84.5
$0.101
Counting (low)
80.2%
±1.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 78.4 to 81.1
$0.018
Counting (high)
81.1%
±1.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 79.7 to 82.4
$0.028
Identification (low)
89.6%
±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 87.5 to 90.6
$0.013
Identification (high)
92.7%
±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 90.6 to 93.8
$0.014
OCR (low)
91.9%
±0.2, Mean of 3 runs, range 91.6 to 92.1
$0.031
OCR (high)
91.5%
±0.2, Mean of 3 runs, range 91.3 to 91.7
$0.089
Data Extraction (low)
88.7%
±1.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 87.6 to 89.7
$0.015
Data Extraction (high)
91.1%
±1.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 89.7 to 91.8
$0.018
Reasoning (low)
87.2%
±1.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 86.1 to 88.1
$0.016
Reasoning (high)
91.2%
±0.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 90.7 to 91.4
$0.021

Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs GPT-6 Astra: Overview

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Claude Sonnet 4.5, released by Anthropic in September 2025, is the company’s most advanced Sonnet-series model, built for high-performance reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agentic workflows. It is a multimodal system that accepts both text and images, with a 200,000-token context window designed for handling large documents and extended interactions. Anthropic highlights its improvements in reliability, reduced sycophancy, and alignment, making it suitable for sustained enterprise use.

The model delivers strong results in coding and autonomous workflows, achieving 61.4% on the OSWorld benchmark and leading performance on SWE-bench Verified. It introduces infrastructure features such as a memory tool (beta), checkpointing for Claude Code, parallel tool use, and tighter integration with VS Code. Compared to Opus, which targets broader reasoning, Sonnet 4.5 is optimized for structured, long-duration tasks. Positioned against leading offerings from OpenAI and Google, it is aimed at enterprise automation, software engineering, and research-intensive applications.

GPT-6 Astra

GPT-6 Astra is a proprietary multimodal reasoning model from OpenAI that accepts text and image input and produces text output. It is positioned as the company's flagship system for long-horizon end-to-end work spanning complex reasoning, software engineering, computer use, browsing, research and document creation. The model exposes a graduated reasoning effort control with low, medium, high, xhigh and max settings, and it accepts a change to that setting partway through a conversation rather than only at request time. It launches as a single tier with no smaller mini or nano variants, carries a context window of roughly 1.05 million tokens with a maximum output of 128,000 tokens, and reports a knowledge cutoff of April 30, 2026.

OpenAI reports evaluation results across agentic, scientific and security benchmarks, including 96.0% on GPQA Diamond, 64.6% on Terminal-Bench Science, 72.6% on OSWorld 2.0, and a perfect score on ExploitBench, along with near saturation on FrontierMath Tier 4 and ARC-AGI-3. The model supports computer use, structured outputs, streaming, programmatic tool calling, multi-agent orchestration, prompt caching and persisted reasoning, and it keeps earlier context windows searchable so it can recover requirements or tool outputs from previous turns. OpenAI describes Astra as the first of its models to cross the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under its Preparedness Framework.

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