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Claude Sonnet 5 vs GPT-5.5 Pro

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 5
anthropic/claude-sonnet-5
GPT-5.5 Pro
openai/gpt-5.5-pro
Provider
Anthropic
OpenAI
Family
Claude 4
GPT-5
Modality
text
text
Context window
1,000,000 tok
1,000,000 tok
Max output
128,000 tok
16,384 tok
Released
2026-07-07
2026-05-22
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Input price
$2.00 /1M
$30.00 /1M
Output price
$10.00 /1M
$180.00 /1M
Tools
yes
yes
Streaming
yes
yes
Vision
yes
yes
JSON mode
yes
yes
Reasoning
yes
yes
Prompt caching
Batch API
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Claude Sonnet 5
anthropic/claude-sonnet-5
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Claude Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's most agentic Sonnet model yet, built for coding, tool use, reasoning, and long-horizon professional work at lower cost than Opus-class models.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
Use cases
ChatbotsContent generationAgentic workflows
GPT-5.5 Pro
openai/gpt-5.5-pro
Full spec →

GPT-5.5 pro uses OpenAI's Responses API with built-in tools, improved reasoning, and stateful context management.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
Use cases
ChatbotsContent generationAgentic workflows

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Glm-5.3 vs Claude Sonnet 5
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Grok 4.6 vs Claude Sonnet 5
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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 5
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="anthropic/claude-sonnet-5",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# GPT-5.5 Pro
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="openai/gpt-5.5-pro",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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