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OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Sol 90 minutes after Claude Opus 5.5, at half the token price. Artificial Analysis ran both on the same tests: Sol is cheaper to any index score up to about 44, then runs out of headroom. Every benchmark, both effort ladders and the real bill.
Opus 5.5 wins eight of the nine benchmarks Anthropic publishes against Fable 5.1 at 2.5x lower token price - but four of those margins sit inside the disclosed error bars. Includes the HAProxy same-task test, the 16-0 research-report result and the one-way thinking-block handoff.
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 matches Fable 5.1 on most work at $4/$20 per million tokens: 66.4% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, 1,846 GDPval-AA Elo, and 40% lower cost per task than Opus 5. Full benchmark table with footnotes, real tester results, the four breaking API changes, and where GPT-6 Astra still wins.
FrontierBench v0.1 / Terminal-Bench 3.0 historic leaderboard: Claude Opus 5 leads at 42.7%; adds Ornith-1.5-397B at vendor-reported 13.5%. Harness and version caveats preserved. Updated October 9, 2026.
GPT-5.6 Luna vs MiniMax M3 compared across coding, browsing, 1M context, video input, agent workflows, pricing and open-weight deployment. Luna leads published coding rows; M3 brings multimodal value.
GPT-5.6 Luna vs GLM 5.2 compared across coding, reasoning, long context, tools, pricing, licensing and deployment. After Luna's permanent 80% price cut, Luna has the stronger managed capability and economics package; GLM 5.2 brings MIT weights and openness.
Hy3 (295B MoE, Apache 2.0, $0.80/1M) vs Claude Sonnet 5 (proprietary, $10/1M). Sonnet leads every shared benchmark (+0.5 to +8.7 pts). But Hy3 ties on BrowseComp (84.2 vs 84.7), leads MCP Atlas (79.1%), costs 12.5x less. Open-weight agent vs proprietary coder — 5 charts, 10-point verdict.
Hy3 (295B MoE, Apache 2.0, $0.80/1M) vs GLM 5.2 (753B MoE, MIT, $4.40/1M). GLM 5.2 wins every coding benchmark by 4-18 points. Hy3 counters with MCP Atlas #1 open-weight (79.1%), BrowseComp 84.2%, DeepSearchQA 91.0%, 47% fewer tokens, and 5.5× cheaper. Full comparison with 5 charts and a 10-point verdict.
The 2026 AI code generator landscape has fundamentally changed. Agents now handle file systems, build entire projects from one prompt, and verify their own output. We tested 8 tools — and CodingFleet's sandbox execution + 40+ multi-model flexibility puts it ahead of the pack. Full comparison.
Claude Fable 5 (80.3% SWE-bench Pro, $50/1M) vs Claude Sonnet 5 (63.2%, $15/1M). Fable 5 leads all 8 shared benchmarks by +8.2 pts avg — but Sonnet 5 delivers 79% of the capability at 30% of the price. Full comparison with 4 custom charts, pricing deep-dive, tokenizer analysis, and a 10-point verdict matrix.
Claude Sonnet 5 vs Qwen 3.7 Max: Sonnet leads coding (+2.6 Pro, +4.8 Verified). Qwen dominates math (92.4% GPQA), runs 35-hour autonomous agents, and is 2.7x cheaper ($3.75 vs $15 output). The coder vs the marathon runner — full comparison.
Claude Sonnet 5 vs Gemini 3.5 Flash: Speed vs Depth. Sonnet leads every coding benchmark (+8.1 Pro, +4.2 TB). Gemini leads MCP Atlas (83.6%), is 4x faster (289 tok/s), 2x cheaper. Coding specialist vs tool orchestration speed king — pick your weapon.