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Claude Opus 5 vs GPT-5.6 Sol API pricing

For a chat message (1K input, 500 output), GPT-5.6 Sol costs $0.014 per request and Claude Opus 5 costs $0.0175, so GPT-5.6 Sol is about 1.3× cheaper.

On the overall leaderboard Claude Opus 5 ranks #7 and GPT-5.6 Sol ranks #11.

Prices are the standard pay-as-you-go prices in OpenRouter's public model list, with input at the cache-miss price. Models OpenRouter does not list use the vendor's official price; those listed in CNY are converted to USD at this round's exchange rate.

Prices and rankings

USD per million tokensClaude Opus 5GPT-5.6 Sol
Input$5$4
Output$25$20
Cached input$0.5$0.4
ProviderAnthropicOpenAI
Release date2026-07-242026-07-09
Overall rank#7#11
Coding rank#6#9
Reasoning rank#9#5
Knowledge rank#15#8
Professional work rank#6#24
Verified2026-10-192026-10-19
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Cost per request by usage

Without cache discounts or batch pricing.

UsageClaude Opus 5GPT-5.6 SolDifference
Chat message1K in / 500 out$0.0175$17.5 per 1,000$0.014$14 per 1,000GPT-5.6 Sol is 1.3× cheaper
Long document100K in / 2K out$0.55$550 per 1,000$0.44$440 per 1,000GPT-5.6 Sol is 1.3× cheaper
Agent session500K in / 50K out$3.75$3,750 per 1,000$3$3,000 per 1,000GPT-5.6 Sol is 1.3× cheaper

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