
Claude Opus 5 vs GPT-6 Sol API pricing
For a chat message (1K input, 500 output), GPT-6 Sol costs $0.007 per request and Claude Opus 5 costs $0.0175, so GPT-6 Sol is about 2.5× cheaper.
On the overall leaderboard Claude Opus 5 ranks #7 and GPT-6 Sol ranks #10.
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 tokens | Claude Opus 5 | GPT-6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $5 | $2 |
| Output | $25 | $10 |
| Cached input | $0.5 | $0.2 |
| Provider | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Release date | 2026-07-24 | 2026-09-22 |
| Overall rank | #7 | #10 |
| Coding rank | #6 | #5 |
| Reasoning rank | #9 | #7 |
| Knowledge rank | #15 | #14 |
| Professional work rank | #6 | #22 |
| Verified | 2026-10-19 | 2026-10-19 |
| Price source | Price source | Price source |
Cost per request by usage
Without cache discounts or batch pricing.
| Usage | Claude Opus 5 | GPT-6 Sol | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chat message1K in / 500 out | $0.0175$17.5 per 1,000 | $0.007$7 per 1,000 | GPT-6 Sol is 2.5× cheaper |
| Long document100K in / 2K out | $0.55$550 per 1,000 | $0.22$220 per 1,000 | GPT-6 Sol is 2.5× cheaper |
| Agent session500K in / 50K out | $3.75$3,750 per 1,000 | $1.5$1,500 per 1,000 | GPT-6 Sol is 2.5× cheaper |
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