Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs OpenAI: GPT-5.1

Side-by-side pricing, context window, and capabilities — try both on ChatLima.

Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6

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Description

Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's most capable Sonnet-class model yet, with frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work. It excels at iterative development, complex codebase navigation, end-to-end project management with...

Strengths

  • Multimodal understanding with text and image support
  • Large context window (1000k tokens)

Best For

Image and document understanding

OpenAI: GPT-5.1

Premium

Description

GPT-5.1 is the latest frontier-grade model in the GPT-5 series, offering stronger general-purpose reasoning, improved instruction adherence, and a more natural conversational style compared to GPT-5. It uses adaptive reasoning...

Strengths

  • Multimodal understanding with text and image support
  • Large context window (400k tokens)

Best For

Image and document understanding

FeatureAnthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6OpenAI: GPT-5.1
ProviderOpenRouterOpenRouter
Context Length1,000,000 tokens400,000 tokens
Input Price$3.00/M$1.25/M
Output Price$15.00/M$10.00/M
Vision SupportYesYes
Higher costYesYes
Capabilities
TextVision
TextVision