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Claude Opus 4.8 vs GPT-6 Sol

Compare Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-6 Sol side-by-side. See how these vision models stack up in Image Captioning, Classification, OCR, Object Detection, and Open Prompt.

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Claude Opus 4.8 vs GPT-6 Sol on Vision Evals

GPT-6 Sol scores higher on all five Vision Evals tasks.

The widest gap is Object Detection, where GPT-6 Sol leads 74.7% to 38.6%.

Overall, Claude Opus 4.8 averages 58.3% (#38 of 63) against 76.9% (#12 of 63) for GPT-6 Sol.

GPT-6 Sol is cheaper ($0.0074 vs $0.021 per sample), while Claude Opus 4.8 is faster (7.7s vs 10.2s per sample).

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Claude Opus 4.8 vs GPT-6 Sol Comparison Table

Evals updated October 13, 2026Pricing updated October 16, 2026

PropertyClaude Opus 4.8GPT-6 Sol
OrganizationAnthropicOpenAI
Categoryclosedclosed
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateMay 2026Sep 2026
Context Window1.0M1.1M
ParametersUnknownundisclosed
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
Commercial usecommercial use per vendor termscommercial use per vendor terms
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$5.00$2.00
Output $/1M$25.00$10.00
Vision Tasks
CaptioningDemoDemo
Chart Question AnsweringSupportedSupported
ClassificationDemoDemo
Document Question AnsweringSupportedSupported
Image TaggingSupportedSupported
Multi-Label ClassificationSupportedSupported
Object DetectionDemoDemo
OCRDemoDemo
Vision LanguageSupportedSupported
Visual Question AnsweringDemoDemo
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
Overall
58.3%
76.9%
Avg cost / sample$0.021$0.0074
Avg speed / sample7.66s10.20s
By task
Object Detection (low)
38.6%
$0.026
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)
54.0%
$0.0076
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)
84.4%
$0.0067
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)
61.5%
$0.025
66.7%
$0.0077
by category
Single value
53.0%
Transcription
70.8%
Structured JSON
82.4%
Text localization
24.2%
Single value
45.6%
Transcription
88.3%
Structured JSON
83.4%
Text localization
65.7%
OCR (high)
62.1%
$0.038
68.8%
$0.018
by category
Single value
54.8%
Transcription
67.0%
Structured JSON
83.5%
Text localization
23.6%
Single value
47.4%
Transcription
91.0%
Structured JSON
85.3%
Text localization
68.7%
Reasoning (low)
53.0%
$0.0078
72.6%
±3.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 69.5 to 76.8
$0.0037
Reasoning (high)
52.3%
$0.0078
77.7%
±1.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 76.8 to 78.8
$0.0061

Claude Opus 4.8 vs GPT-6 Sol: Overview

Claude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic's most capable generally available large language model, released on May 28, 2026 as an incremental upgrade to Claude Opus 4.7. The model accepts text and image inputs and produces text outputs, with a 1 million token context window on the Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud Vertex AI (200k tokens on Microsoft Foundry) and up to 128k max output tokens. It uses adaptive thinking and supports adjustable effort tiers — high by default, with extra and max tiers available for more demanding tasks. A fast mode operates at approximately 2.5x standard speed. The model is described by Anthropic as a hybrid reasoning model designed for advanced coding, agentic workflows, long-context reasoning, and professional knowledge work.

Key behavioral improvements over Opus 4.7 include substantially reduced rates of unreported code flaws, improved honesty in self-assessment, and better tool-calling reliability. On Anthropic's Super-Agent benchmark, Opus 4.8 completes every case end-to-end, and it scores 84% on Online-Mind2Web for computer-use and browser-agent tasks. It achieves 88.6% on SWE-bench Verified and 69.2% on SWE-bench Pro. Alongside the model, Anthropic launched Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code (research preview), which enables Claude to orchestrate hundreds of parallel subagents for codebase-scale tasks such as large migrations. The Messages API was also updated to accept mid-task system messages without breaking prompt caching, improving support for long-running agentic pipelines.

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

On Roboflow's Vision Evals, GPT-6 Sol performed better. It scores higher on all five vision tasks and averages 76.9% (#12 of 63) against 58.3% (#38 of 63) for Claude Opus 4.8. These scores measure vision capabilities only; either model may perform differently on work outside this benchmark's tasks.

No. On the Vision Evals Object Detection benchmark at low effort, GPT-6 Sol leads with 74.7% against 38.6%. This is the widest gap between the two models across the benchmark's tasks.

GPT-6 Sol is cheaper to run. Across Roboflow's Vision Evals task mix it averaged $0.0074 per sample against $0.021. Claude Opus 4.8 is priced at $5.00 per 1M input tokens and $25.00 per 1M output; GPT-6 Sol is priced at $2.00 per 1M input tokens and $10.00 per 1M output. Actual costs depend on your image sizes, prompts, and output length.

Claude Opus 4.8 is faster. Across Roboflow's Vision Evals it averaged 7.7s per inference against 10.2s. Latency varies with image size, prompt length, and provider load, so treat these as relative rather than guaranteed figures.

Yes. The comparison demo on this page runs both models on the same image side by side for image captioning and image classification in the free Roboflow Playground. You can try it instantly, and a free account unlocks unlimited runs.