Claude Sonnet 5 vs GPT-5.6 Luna
A side-by-side comparison of Claude Sonnet 5 and GPT-5.6 Luna — intelligence, context, capabilities, and price.
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| Context window | 1M | 1.1M |
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Claude Sonnet 5 pricing
- Input$3 / 1M tokens
- Cached input$0.3 / 1M tokens
- 5m cache write$3.75 / 1M tokens
- 1h cache write$6 / 1M tokens
- Output$15 / 1M tokens
- Web search (when used)$10 / 1,000 searchs
Provider-equivalent rates. Higher reasoning can use more output tokens. TryAI charges a one-credit minimum and rounds each run's aggregate cost up once.
View Claude Sonnet 5details →GPT-5.6 Luna pricing
- Input$1 / 1M tokens
- Cached input$0.1 / 1M tokens
- Cache write$1.25 / 1M tokens
- Output$6 / 1M tokens
- Web search (when used)$10 / 1,000 calls
Provider-equivalent rates. Higher reasoning can use more output tokens. TryAI charges a one-credit minimum and rounds each run's aggregate cost up once.
View GPT-5.6 Lunadetails →Claude Sonnet 5 vs GPT-5.6 Luna: FAQ
- Is Claude Sonnet 5 better than GPT-5.6 Luna?
- Anthropic's current fast workhorse — near-Opus quality at much lower latency and cost. Fastest, most affordable GPT-5.6 tier — outperforms Claude Opus 4.8 on the Coding Agent Index at roughly a quarter of the cost. The best choice depends on your workload — compare context window, capabilities, and price above, or try both on TryAI.
- Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 5 or GPT-5.6 Luna?
- See the pricing rows above for live per-token or per-generation costs. TryAI bills both from one pay-as-you-go balance.