Claude Opus 4.8 vs GPT-5.6 Sol

Side-by-side pricing per provider, context window, benchmark scores and speed, all on one OpenAI-compatible API.

Metric
Claude Opus 4.8Anthropicanthropic/claude-opus-4.8
GPT-5.6 SolOpenAIopenai/gpt-5.6-sol
Creator
Anthropic
OpenAI
Released
May 27, 2026
Jul 9, 2026
Context window
1M
1.05M (best)
Max output
128K
128K
Input / 1MLowest provider price
$5.00
$4.00 (best)
Output / 1MLowest provider price
$25.00
$20.00 (best)
Providers
3 (best)
1
IntelligenceArtificial Analysis index
41.8
42.3 (best)
CodingArtificial Analysis index
74.3
77.2 (best)
LatencyMedian time to first token
19s
5.7s (best)
ThroughputMedian tokens per second
<1 t/s (best)
<1 t/s
Accepts
Text, Image, Files
Text, Image
Produces
Text
Text
Tool calling
Yes
Yes
Structured output
Yes
Yes
Reasoning
Yes
Yes

Claude Opus 4.8 vs GPT-5.6 Sol: summary

Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.6 Sol are both available through FastRouter's OpenAI-compatible API, so switching between them is a change of model id, not a new integration.

Claude Opus 4.8, from Anthropic, has a 1,000,000-token context window, costs from $5.00/1M input and $25.00/1M output tokens across 3 providers and scores 41.8 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

GPT-5.6 Sol, from OpenAI, has a 1,050,000-token context window, costs $4.00/1M input and $20.00/1M output tokens and scores 42.3 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

GPT-5.6 Sol is the cheapest on input, 1.3× cheaper than the next model, GPT-5.6 Sol has the largest context window, GPT-5.6 Sol scores highest for intelligence, GPT-5.6 Sol leads on coding and Claude Opus 4.8 has the highest throughput.

Switch with one line

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.fastrouter.ai/api/v1", api_key="<FASTROUTER_API_KEY>") client.chat.completions.create(model="anthropic/claude-opus-4.8", messages=[...]) # or client.chat.completions.create(model="openai/gpt-5.6-sol", messages=[...])
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