Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs GPT-6 Luna
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Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs GPT-6 Luna Comparison Table
Evals updated September 22, 2026Pricing updated September 22, 2026
| Property | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | GPT-6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Category | closed | closed |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | Sep 2025 | Sep 2026 |
| Context Window | 200K | 1.1M |
| Parameters | ||
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $3.00 | $0.100 |
| Output $/1M | $15.00 | $0.500 |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Captioning | Demo | |
| Chart Question Answering | ||
| Classification | Demo | |
| Document Question Answering | ||
| Image Tagging | ||
| Multi-Label Classification | ||
| Object Detection | Demo | |
| OCR | Demo | |
| Vision Language | ||
| Visual Question Answering | Demo | |
| Model Features | ||
| Foundation Vision | ||
| LLMs with Vision Capabilities | ||
| Multimodal Vision | ||
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 6 vision tasks, pooled at low effort | ||
| Overall | Not evaluated | 68.6% |
| Avg cost / sample | – | $0.0004 |
| Avg speed / sample | – | 11.27s |
| By task | ||
| Object Detection (low) | – | 56.8% ±1.9, Mean of 3 runs, range 54.8 to 58.5 |
| Object Detection (high) | – | 64.1% ±0.5, Mean of 3 runs, range 63.6 to 64.5 |
| Counting (low) | – | 65.8% ±1.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 64.9 to 67.6 |
| Counting (high) | – | 64.4% ±2.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 62.2 to 66.2 |
| Identification (low) | – | 81.3% ±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 81.3 to 81.3 |
| Identification (high) | – | 80.2% ±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 78.1 to 81.3 |
| OCR (low) | – | 87.9% ±0.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 87.2 to 88.3 |
| OCR (high) | – | 88.5% ±0.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 87.9 to 89.2 |
| Data Extraction (low) | – | 68.0% ±3.1, Mean of 3 runs, range 65.0 to 71.1 |
| Data Extraction (high) | – | 66.7% ±0.5, Mean of 3 runs, range 66.0 to 67.0 |
| Reasoning (low) | – | 52.1% ±2.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 49.7 to 53.6 |
| Reasoning (high) | – | 60.7% ±1.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 58.9 to 62.3 |
Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs GPT-6 Luna: Overview
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 Luna is the fast, cost-efficient tier of OpenAI's GPT-6 model family, sitting below GPT-6 Sol and the larger GPT-6 Astra model that opened the generation. It is a proprietary multimodal transformer that accepts text and image input and returns text, and it exposes an adjustable reasoning effort setting so the same model can run in a low-latency mode or spend additional inference compute on harder problems. OpenAI positions it for high-volume and latency-sensitive workloads such as conversational assistants, classification, and lightweight agentic pipelines, while noting that at higher reasoning effort it handles software engineering and computer-use tasks that previously required a Sol-tier model.
The model supports a context window of roughly 1,050,000 input tokens with a maximum output of 128,000 tokens, which allows long documents, extended agent traces, and large code repositories to be processed in a single request. OpenAI describes the GPT-6 generation as improving factual reliability and adopting a more concise communication style relative to the GPT-5.6 series, and attributes the efficiency of the Sol and Luna tiers to gains in caching and inference rather than to reduced capability. Architecture details, parameter counts, and training data are not published.