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Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-5.4

Pricing per million tokens, context window, capabilities — pulled from each provider's public docs. All 2 are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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Claude Sonnet 4.6
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
GPT-5.4
openai/gpt-5.4
Provider
Anthropic
OpenAI
Family
Claude 4
GPT-5
Modality
text
text
Context window
200,000 tok
1,000,000 tok
Max output
128,000 tok
16,384 tok
Released
2026-05-22
2026-05-22
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Input price
$3.00 /1M
$2.50 /1M
Output price
$15.00 /1M
$15.00 /1M
Cache read
$0.300 /1M
$0.250 /1M
Cache write
$3.75 /1M
Tools
yes
yes
Streaming
yes
yes
Vision
yes
yes
JSON mode
yes
yes
Reasoning
yes
yes
Prompt caching
yes
yes
Batch API
yes
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Claude Sonnet 4.6
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
Full spec →

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's latest balanced model offering strong coding, reasoning, and agentic capabilities with improved instruction following.

Strengths
  • Best cost/quality ratio for agentic workloads
  • Low latency
  • Strong tool calling
Use cases
Production agentsRAGCustomer-facing chatData extraction
GPT-5.4
openai/gpt-5.4
Full spec →

GPT-5.4 is OpenAI's flagship model with strong coding, reasoning, and multimodal capabilities.

Strengths
  • Huge context window
  • Strong on math + code
  • Excellent JSON mode
Use cases
Long-document Q&AStructured extractionCode generationAnalytical work

Benchmarks

Claude Sonnet 4.6
GPT-5.4
GSM8K
98.2
HumanEval
93.4
94.0
MMLU
87.2
91.8
SWE-Bench
62.1

Source: each provider's published benchmarks. Higher is better. Run an eval to compare on your own data.

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SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, all 2, one line different.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# Claude Sonnet 4.6
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# GPT-5.4
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="openai/gpt-5.4",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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