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Claude Opus 4 vs GPT-6 Sol

Compare Claude Opus 4 and GPT-6 Sol side-by-side. See how these vision models stack up in Image Captioning, OCR, Object Detection, Open Prompt, and Classification.

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Claude Opus 4 vs GPT-6 Sol Comparison Table

Evals updated October 8, 2026Pricing updated October 11, 2026

PropertyClaude Opus 4GPT-6 Sol
OrganizationAnthropicOpenAI
Categoryclosedclosed
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateMay 2025Sep 2026
Context Window200K1.1M
ParametersUnknownundisclosed
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1MNo published price$2.00
Output $/1MNo published price$10.00
Vision Tasks
CaptioningSupportedDemo
Chart Question AnsweringSupportedSupported
ClassificationSupportedDemo
Document Question AnsweringSupportedSupported
Image TaggingSupportedSupported
Multi-Label ClassificationSupportedSupported
Object DetectionSupportedDemo
OCRSupportedDemo
Vision LanguageSupportedSupported
Visual Question AnsweringSupportedDemo
Promptable Concept SegmentationNot listedDemo
Model Features
Foundation VisionSupportedSupported
LLMs with Vision CapabilitiesSupportedSupported
Multimodal VisionSupportedSupported
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 5 vision tasks, pooled at low effort
OverallDeprecated
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 Opus 4 vs GPT-6 Sol: Overview

Claude Opus 4

Claude 4 Opus, released by Anthropic in May 2025, is the flagship model of the Claude 4 family, built for complex, long-horizon reasoning and advanced coding workflows. It is multimodal, supporting text (including voice), images, and tool use, and operates as a hybrid reasoning model—able to deliver quick answers in fast mode or switch to extended thinking for deeper, multi-step problem solving. With a ~200,000-token context window and a training cutoff around March 2025, it is optimized for handling large documents, long conversations, and sophisticated agentic tasks.

Positioned at the high end of Anthropic’s offerings, Opus 4 achieves state-of-the-art results on coding benchmarks like SWE-Bench (72.5%) and Terminal-Bench (43.2%). It is best suited for research, enterprise automation, and software development at scale. The model is classified at Anthropic’s ASL-3 safety level, denoting advanced oversight and safety features.

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. OpenAI reports results including 33.2% on AutomationBench at xhigh effort and 56.4% on Agents' Last Exam at max effort, while its reported DeepSWE and OSWorld 2.0 figures of 68.8% and 64.4% fall below those of the earlier GPT-5.6 Sol. Its vision behavior covers image understanding tasks such as visual question answering, captioning, document and chart interpretation, and text recognition.

Frequently Asked Questions

Claude Opus 4 has been deprecated by its provider and can no longer be run, so it is not part of Roboflow's current Vision Evals. This page compares the models on specs, licensing, and pricing instead.

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