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Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs GPT-6.1 Sol: which is smarter?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 has an SI-IQ of 140 and GPT-6.1 Sol has 148. The table compares them area by area using only independent benchmark results.

Data as of Oct 18, 2026 · method 1.0.0

MetricClaude Sonnet 5.5GPT-6.1 Sol
SI-IQ140137–143148144–152
Reasoning142150
Math140148
Knowledge137147
DeveloperAnthropicOpenAI
ReleasedSep 28, 2026Sep 29, 2026
AccessAPI accessAPI access
Price in / out (USD per 1M tokens)$2.00 / $10$2.00 / $10
Benchmarks used99
Claude Sonnet 5.5GPT-6.1 Sol
130140150160SI-IQReasoningMathKnowledge

Benchmarks every compared model was tested on

Raw scores as published by the evaluators.

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5GPT-6.1 Sol
Chess Puzzles59.0%68.0%
FrontierMath Tier 480.5%100.0%
FrontierMath Tiers 1–388.8%93.7%
Furniture Assembly75.0%80.0%
GPQA Diamond95.6%95.4%
GPQA Diamond (OpenRouter run)92.9%94.4%
Mystery Game Puzzles65.0%80.0%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025100.0%100.0%
SimpleQA Verified46.5%73.9%
τ²-bench Airline (OpenRouter run)77.5%68.2%

On SI-IQ, GPT-6.1 Sol is ahead by 8 points, and the 90% intervals do not overlap.

Data sources: Epoch AI, ‘Capabilities & benchmarking’ (CC BY 4.0); LiteLLM, model_prices_and_context_window.json (MIT); Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai), licensed under CC BY 4.0: reuse and republish with attribution to OpenRouter (licences and changes).