Claude Haiku 4.5 vs GPT-5.6 Sol
Pricing & Specs

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$5
Claude Haiku 4.5 output / 1M
$30
GPT-5.6 Sol output / 1M
200K / 1.05M
context windows

TL;DR: On a typical task (1K input + 500 output tokens), Claude Haiku 4.5 is about 5.7x cheaper than GPT-5.6 Sol. But per-token price is not cost per result: a cheaper model that needs more tokens, retries, or hand-holding can end up more expensive on your workload. The specs below are facts; which one is better at YOUR task is measurable, not guessable.

API Pricing: Claude Haiku 4.5 vs GPT-5.6 Sol

TokensClaude Haiku 4.5GPT-5.6 Sol
Input$1 / 1M$5 / 1M
Output$5 / 1M$30 / 1M
Cached input$0.1 / 1M$0.5 / 1M

What that means in practice (1K input + 500 output tokens)

1x One typical task: $0.0035 on Claude Haiku 4.5 vs $0.0200 on GPT-5.6 Sol
1K 1,000 runs: $3.50 vs $20.00
💡 Real cost depends on how verbose each model is on YOUR prompts. Benchmark to measure actual tokens, not estimates.

Specs Compared

SpecClaude Haiku 4.5GPT-5.6 Sol
Context window200K tokens1.05M tokens
Max output tokens64K tokens128K tokens
Input modalitiestext, imagetext, image
Knowledge cutoff-February 16, 2026
Latency (measured)~847ms median response-
Reasoning modelYesYes
Tool / function callingYesYes
JSON modeYesYes
Prompt cachingYesYes

When to Choose Which

High volume on a budget: start with Claude Haiku 4.5; only pay for GPT-5.6 Sol if the benchmark shows a quality gap that matters.
Long documents or big codebases: GPT-5.6 Sol has the larger context window (1.05M vs 200K tokens).
Everything else: the honest answer is to benchmark both on your actual task. Quality differences are task-specific and shift with every release.

FAQ

Which is cheaper, Claude Haiku 4.5 or GPT-5.6 Sol?

Claude Haiku 4.5 costs $1/$5 per 1M input/output tokens; GPT-5.6 Sol costs $5/$30. On a typical task (1K input + 500 output tokens), Claude Haiku 4.5 is about 5.7x cheaper than GPT-5.6 Sol.

Which has the bigger context window, Claude Haiku 4.5 or GPT-5.6 Sol?

Claude Haiku 4.5 has a 200K-token context window; GPT-5.6 Sol has 1.05M tokens.

Is Claude Haiku 4.5 better than GPT-5.6 Sol?

It depends on the task. Generic leaderboards won't tell you which one wins on YOUR workload. OpenMark lets you benchmark Claude Haiku 4.5 and GPT-5.6 Sol head to head on your own task with real API calls, no API keys needed, free tier available.

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