Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-6.1 Terra
GPT-6.1 Terra: 85.8% average across five Vision Evals tasks (#2 of 65 models). We have not run Claude Sonnet 4.6 through Roboflow's Vision Evals, so there is no head-to-head score.
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Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-6.1 Terra Comparison Table
Evals updated October 26, 2026Pricing updated October 27, 2026
| Property | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | GPT-6.1 Terra |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Category | closed | closed |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | Feb 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| Context Window | 1.0M | 1.1M |
| Parameters | Unknown | undisclosed |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Commercial use | commercial use per vendor terms | commercial use per vendor terms |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $3.00 | $1.00 |
| Output $/1M | $15.00 | $5.00 |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Captioning | Demo | Supported |
| Classification | Demo | Supported |
| Object Detection | Demo | Supported |
| OCR | Demo | Supported |
| Visual Question Answering | Demo | Supported |
| Model Features | ||
Both support 3 more features | ||
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 5 vision tasks, pooled at low effort | ||
| Overall | Not evaluated | 85.8% |
| Avg cost / sample | – | $0.0033 |
| Avg speed / sample | – | 10.05s |
| By task | ||
| Object Detection (low) | – | 84.7% ±0.1, Mean of 3 runs, range 84.7 to 84.8 |
| Object Detection (high) | – | 84.7% ±0.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 84.2 to 84.9 |
| Counting (low) | – | 80.2% ±2.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 78.4 to 82.4 |
| Counting (high) | – | 84.2% ±3.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 81.1 to 87.8 |
| Identification (low) | – | 96.9% ±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 96.9 to 96.9 |
| Identification (high) | – | 96.9% ±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 96.9 to 96.9 |
| OCR (low) | – | 81.9% |
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| OCR (high) | – | 84.4% |
| by category |
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| Reasoning (low) | – | 85.4% ±1.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 83.4 to 86.8 |
| Reasoning (high) | – | 87.0% ±1.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 85.4 to 88.1 |
Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-6.1 Terra: Overview
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's mid-tier large language model, released February 17, 2026, designed to balance performance, cost, and versatility for professional and developer use. It supports text and vision-based tasks with advanced reasoning, agentic capabilities, and Adaptive Thinking — a mode where the model dynamically scales its internal reasoning depth. A beta context window of up to 1,000,000 tokens (200K standard) enables processing of entire codebases or document collections in a single request. Parameters are undisclosed.
Optimized for coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, and knowledge work, Sonnet 4.6 delivers a full generational upgrade over Sonnet 4.5 and approaches Opus 4.5-level performance across many benchmarks at a fraction of the cost. It is the default model on Claude.ai, Claude Cowork, and is available via API and major cloud platforms — making it well suited for production workloads requiring strong reasoning without flagship pricing.
GPT-6.1 Terra is an OpenAI model released on October 26, 2026 for visual reasoning, computer use and writing. It accepts text and image inputs and produces text, with a 1,050,000-token context window and up to 128,000 output tokens. OpenAI lists applications including matching product photographs to catalog entries, interpreting technical drawings and operating application screens.
The API exposes six reasoning effort settings: none, low, medium, high, xhigh and max. Medium is the default. The model supports structured outputs and tool calling through the Responses API. Vision Evals reports its Low and High results for text understanding, counting, identification, reasoning and object detection, using native OpenAI API inference. Terra is a proprietary model; its weights are not released.