Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-5.4 Mini
Head to head on 28 shared benchmarks, with price, context window, and release dates.
Benchmark scores
37evals · sort by any column, ⤢ to expand fullscreen
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| Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic | 47.6% | 65.3% | 1810elo | 79.9 | 51.0% | 32.4% | 87.5% | 33.6% | 56.6% | 92.2% | 78.4% | 80.0% | 76.1% | 63.9% | 77.7% | 86.5% | 86.4% | 67.7% | 45.0% | 46.6% | 50.1% | 77.1% | 53.0% | 76.3 | 50.6% | 60.6% | 51.5% | 75.7% | 87.1% | 47.2% | 1.35 | 76.0% | - | - | 1207elo | 89.3 | 72.1% | 64.7% |
| GPT-5.4 Mini OpenAI | 37.0% | 60.9% | 1665elo | 73 | 45.4% | 28.3% | 87.5% | 28.1% | 73.3% | 80.3% | 70.9% | 71.6% | 70.9% | 60.3% | 71.5% | 78.6% | 72.5% | 63.5% | 21.0% | 50.8% | 52.1% | 71.2% | 52.3% | 61.7 | 33.2% | 54.2% | 48.0% | 83.3% | - | - | - | - | 21.2% | 3.9% | - | - | - | 55.2% |
2 / 2 models
| Attribute | Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic | GPT-5.4 Mini OpenAI |
|---|---|---|
| Description | Claude Sonnet 4.6 is an AI model from Anthropic. | GPT-5.4 mini is an AI model from OpenAI. |
| Family | Claude | GPT |
| Params | - | - |
| Open weights | closed | closed |
| License | proprietary | proprietary |
| Released | 17 Feb 2026 | 17 Mar 2026 |
| Context | 1,000,000 | 400,000 |
| Input $/1M | $3.00 | $0.75 |
| Output $/1M | $15.00 | $4.50 |
| Cache read $/1M | $0.300 | $0.075 |
| Cache write $/1M | $3.750 | - |
| Speed | 0 tok/s | 0 tok/s |
| Latency | 0.00 s | 0.00 s |
| Modalities | text, image, file | file, image, text |
| Providers | - | - |
| Publisher | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Reported scores |
FAQ
- Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 or GPT-5.4 Mini better?
- Across the 28 benchmarks both models report on Sophon, Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads on 23 of them. Which one is "better" depends on the benchmark - the table above shows every shared score.
- How do Claude Sonnet 4.6 and GPT-5.4 Mini compare on GPQA Diamond?
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 scores 87.5% and GPT-5.4 Mini scores 87.5% on GPQA Diamond.
- Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 4.6 or GPT-5.4 Mini?
- GPT-5.4 Mini is cheaper at $4.50 per million output tokens against $15.00 for Claude Sonnet 4.6 - about 3.3x.
- When were Claude Sonnet 4.6 and GPT-5.4 Mini released?
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 was released 17 Feb 2026 by Anthropic. GPT-5.4 Mini was released 17 Mar 2026 by OpenAI.
Other head-to-heads
56Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview32 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-5.530 shared evalsGemini 3.1 Pro Preview vs GPT-5.4 Mini30 shared evalsClaude Opus 4.8 vs Claude Sonnet 4.629 shared evalsClaude Opus 4.7 vs Claude Sonnet 4.629 shared evalsClaude Fable 5 vs Claude Sonnet 4.628 shared evalsClaude Opus 4.6 vs Claude Sonnet 4.628 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-5.428 shared evalsGPT-5.4 Mini vs GPT-5.427 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs Kimi K2.527 shared evalsGPT-5.4 Mini vs GPT-5.526 shared evalsClaude Opus 4.8 vs GPT-5.4 Mini26 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs Qwen3.6 Plus26 shared evalsClaude Opus 4.7 vs GPT-5.4 Mini26 shared evalsGPT-5.4 Mini vs GPT-5.225 shared evalsClaude Opus 4.5 vs GPT-5.4 Mini25 shared evalsClaude Fable 5 vs GPT-5.4 Mini25 shared evalsClaude Opus 4.6 vs GPT-5.4 Mini25 shared evalsGPT-5.4 Mini vs Kimi K2.525 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs GLM 5.125 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.5 vs Claude Sonnet 4.624 shared evalsGPT-5.4 Mini vs GPT-5 Mini24 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-5.224 shared evalsGLM 5.1 vs GPT-5.4 Mini24 shared evalsGPT-5.4 Mini vs Qwen3.6 Plus24 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.5 vs GPT-5.4 Mini23 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-5 Mini23 shared evalsClaude Opus 4.5 vs Claude Sonnet 4.623 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs DeepSeek V3.223 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs Grok 4.1 Fast22 shared evalsDeepSeek V3.2 vs GPT-5.4 Mini22 shared evalsGPT-5.4 Mini vs Grok 4.1 Fast22 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-5 Nano20 shared evalsGPT-5.4 Mini vs GPT-5 Nano20 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs Claude Sonnet 4.620 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs GPT-5.4 Mini19 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs Gemini 2.5 Pro19 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs GLM 4.719 shared evalsGLM 4.7 vs GPT-5.4 Mini19 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs gpt-oss-120b18 shared evalsGemini 2.5 Pro vs GPT-5.4 Mini18 shared evalsGPT-5.4 Mini vs gpt-oss-120b17 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-516 shared evalsGPT-5 vs GPT-5.4 Mini16 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-4o14 shared evalsGPT-4o vs GPT-5.4 Mini14 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-6 Astra13 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-4.1 Mini12 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-4.112 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-4o-mini12 shared evalsGPT-4o-mini vs GPT-5.4 Mini12 shared evalsGPT-5.4 Mini vs GPT-6 Astra12 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-4.1 Nano12 shared evalsGPT-4.1 Nano vs GPT-5.4 Mini12 shared evalsGPT-4.1 Mini vs GPT-5.4 Mini11 shared evalsGPT-4.1 vs GPT-5.4 Mini11 shared evals
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