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Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs GPT-6 Sol

GPT-6 Sol: 76.9% average across five Vision Evals tasks (#13 of 65 models). We have not run Claude Sonnet 4.5 through Roboflow's Vision Evals, so there is no head-to-head score. Run both on your own image below.

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Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs GPT-6 Sol Comparison Table

Evals updated October 26, 2026Pricing updated November 6, 2026

PropertyClaude Sonnet 4.5GPT-6 Sol
OrganizationAnthropicOpenAI
Categoryclosedclosed
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateSep 2025Sep 2026
Context Window200K1.1M
ParametersUnknownundisclosed
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
Commercial usecommercial use per vendor termscommercial use per vendor terms
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$3.00$2.00
Output $/1M$15.00$10.00
Vision Tasks
Promptable Concept SegmentationNot listedDemo
Both support 10 more tasks
Model Features
Both support 3 more features
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 5 vision tasks, pooled at low effort
OverallNot evaluated
76.9%
Avg cost / sample–$0.0074
Avg speed / sample–10.20s
By task
Object Detection (low)–
74.7%
±0.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 74.1 to 75.5
$0.011
Object Detection (high)–
76.4%
±1.2, Mean of 3 runs, range 75.0 to 77.4
$0.022
Counting (low)–
76.6%
±2.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 74.3 to 78.4
$0.0039
Counting (high)–
77.5%
±1.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 75.7 to 78.4
$0.0070
Identification (low)–
93.8%
±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 93.8 to 93.8
$0.0027
Identification (high)–
92.7%
±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 90.6 to 93.8
$0.0036
OCR (low)–
66.7%
$0.0077
by category
Single value
45.6%
Transcription
88.3%
Structured JSON
83.4%
Text localization
65.7%
OCR (high)–
68.8%
$0.018
by category
Single value
47.4%
Transcription
91.0%
Structured JSON
85.3%
Text localization
68.7%
Reasoning (low)–
72.6%
±3.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 69.5 to 76.8
$0.0037
Reasoning (high)–
77.7%
±1.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 76.8 to 78.8
$0.0061

Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs GPT-6 Sol: 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.

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 Sol

GPT-6 Sol is a proprietary multimodal reasoning model from OpenAI, released on September 22, 2026 alongside GPT-6 Luna as an efficiency-oriented tier of the GPT-6 family that began with GPT-6 Astra. OpenAI states that Sol and Luna are trained with methods similar to those used for Astra, carrying the same work on professional tasks, factuality, coding, computer use, and alignment into models that run faster. Sol accepts text and image input and returns text output, and OpenAI documents a context window of roughly one million tokens together with a knowledge cutoff of April 20, 2026.

The model targets complex coding and agentic workflows and exposes a configurable reasoning effort setting with levels of none, low, medium, high, xhigh, and max, which trades latency and token consumption against answer quality. Its vision behavior covers image understanding tasks such as visual question answering, captioning, document and chart interpretation, and text recognition.