# Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs GPT-5.6 Luna

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Sonnet 5.5 and GPT-5.6 Luna across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-sonnet-5-5-vs-gpt-5-6-luna
- Last updated: September 28, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 5
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.7

## Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Sonnet 5.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GPT-5.6 Luna only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads overall 80.49 to 65.55.
- The clearest category separation is in reasoning, where the averages are 79.2 for Claude Sonnet 5.5 and 55.8 for GPT-5.6 Luna.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is cursorBench40 in Coding, with scores of 55.5% and 35.9%.
- GPT-5.6 Luna is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- GPT-5.6 Luna also has the larger context window at 1.05M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 1.05M |
| Overall Score | 80.49 | 65.55 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 47 | 30 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $2.00 / $10.00 | $0.20 / $1.20 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Claude Sonnet 5.5
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 public-lane score: 66.1 (Supported · #10/111)
- GPT-5.6 Luna public-lane score: 55.2 (Supported · #30/111)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | GPT-5.6 Luna | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 70.60% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | 64.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DRACO | 87.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 | 59.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LAB all-pass (Harvey held-out) | 10.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LAB criterion-pass (Harvey held-out) | 93.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon Verified Pass@3 | 85.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon Verified Pass³ | 68.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon Verified avg. turns | 31.6 turns | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AutomationBench (Zapier 1.0.6) | 44.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | 77.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | Coming soon | 14.3% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 84.7% | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 83.3% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | Coming soon | 45.6% | Coming soon |
| CyberGym | Coming soon | 77.9% | Coming soon |
| ExploitGym | Coming soon | 12.4% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | Coming soon | 53.4% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 79.0% | Coming soon |
| ApprenticeBench | Coming soon | 7% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 public-lane score: 79.6 (Estimated · #3/136)
- GPT-5.6 Luna public-lane score: 63.1 (Supported · #10/136)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | GPT-5.6 Luna | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| FrontierCode 1.1 Main | 46.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| cursorBench40 | 55.5% | 35.9% | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| SWE-bench Pro | 81.3% | 62.7% | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| SWE Multilingual | 90.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multimodal | 54.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | 71.0% | 67.2% | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Extended | 59.1% | 55.1% | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| ProgramBench | 79.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE v2 | 61.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 84.7% | Coming soon |
| cursorBench32 | Coming soon | 61.1% | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench v3 | Coming soon | 85.5% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 93.0% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 public-lane score: 79.2 (#7/27)
- GPT-5.6 Luna public-lane score: 55.8 (#24/27)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | GPT-5.6 Luna | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | Coming soon | 59.5% | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-3 | Coming soon | 0.2% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 public-lane score: 83.3 (Unranked · 7 rankable rows)
- GPT-5.6 Luna public-lane score: 68.1 (#22/50)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | GPT-5.6 Luna | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Chartography (no tools) | 61.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Chartography (tools) | 90.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BenchCAD Vision2Code (no tools) | 0.747 | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BenchCAD Vision2Code (tools) | 0.963 | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Biomedical image analysis | 72.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OfficeQA | 76.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OfficeQA Pro | 65.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 78.4% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro w/ Python | Coming soon | 79.5% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Claude Sonnet 5.5
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 public-lane score: 80.9 (Supported · #6/160)
- GPT-5.6 Luna public-lane score: 64.7 (Supported · #23/160)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | GPT-5.6 Luna | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HealthBench (raw) | 69.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench (length-adjusted) | 65.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Professional (raw) | 77.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Professional | 69.2% | 55.7% | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| BioMysteryBench (human-solvable) | 89.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BioMysteryBench (human-difficult) | 44.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SpatialBench Verified | 72.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SingleCellBench | 59.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Protein Design | 51.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Morphology-to-molecule matching | 25.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Medicinal chemistry | 65.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Protein Design library ranking | 54.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| De novo protein-binder design | 82.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Protocols (troubleshooting) | 67.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Protocols (understanding) | 66.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | 56.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 92.3% | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 92.3% | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Hard | Coming soon | 32.0% | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 91.7% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 86.0% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- GPT-5.6 Luna public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | GPT-5.6 Luna | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GMMLU | 92.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MILU | 91.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- GPT-5.6 Luna public-lane score: 94.2 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | GPT-5.6 Luna | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ArXivMath Aug. 2026 (no tools) | 86.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ArXivMath Aug. 2026 (tools) | 95.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath (legacy) | Coming soon | 78.6% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | Coming soon | 78.600% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | Coming soon | 58.500% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude Sonnet 5.5 or GPT-5.6 Luna?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Claude Sonnet 5.5 and GPT-5.6 Luna?

The widest category gap is in reasoning, where the averages are 79.2 for Claude Sonnet 5.5 and 55.8 for GPT-5.6 Luna.

### How many benchmarks does Claude Sonnet 5.5 cover on BenchLM?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 currently has 47 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does GPT-5.6 Luna cover on BenchLM?

GPT-5.6 Luna currently has 30 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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