Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) vs GPT-5.6 Terra (xhigh)

Anthropic · OpenAI · catalog 2026-09-14

Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) beats GPT-5.6 Terra (xhigh): cheaper ($1.54 vs $1.74/M) and at least as smart (index 38.4 vs 38.2).
Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)GPT-5.6 Terra (xhigh)
Speed (tok/s)73 measured82.6 measured
Blended $/M$1.54 derived$1.74 derived
Intelligence index38.4 measured38.2 measured
TTFT (ms)18739 measured2343 measured
Context1000k list—
Coding index72 measured71 measured
Agentic index44 measured42 measured

Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) card · GPT-5.6 Terra (xhigh) card · 3D observatory

Verdicts use price×intelligence dominance only, and only where both sides are measured; null cells stay null with their provenance (em-dash = not in catalog). Percentile-free by design — this page compares two models, not the field. Generated page — do not hand-edit.