Comparing 2 models

Claude Opus 4.6 vs GPT-6 Astra

Facts first, then task-specific rankings. A highlighted cell is better only for that row, not universally.

metric

Model 1Claude Opus 4.6

Model 2GPT-6 Astra

Best for

OCR & Documents (#1)

Everyday Translation (#7)

Provider

anthropic

openai

Context

1.1MBest

Input / 1M

$5Best

$10

Output / 1M

$25Best

$50

Tool use

yesBest

Vision

yesBest

Reasoning

yesBest

Open-weight

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Released

Aug 26, 2025

Sep 3, 2026

task evidence

How they place when the question changes

Lower ranks are better. “Best” marks the strongest option in this shortlist for that task.

Best LLM for OpenClaw #4Best —

Best LLM for Charts & Diagrams #2Best —

Best LLM for Fast Summaries #8Best —

Best LLM for Literary Translation #6Best #8

Best LLM for JSON & Schema Output #7Best —

Best LLM for Vision & Documents #1Best —

Best LLM for Business Writing #2Best —

Best Value LLM #8Best —

Best LLM for Everyday Translation #5Best #7

Best LLM for Writing #2Best —

Best LLM for Creative Writing #3Best —

Best LLM for Document Summarization #8Best —

Best LLM for Marketing Copy #2Best —

Best LLM for Debugging & Code Review #7Best —

Best LLM for OpenHands #3Best —

Best LLM for Summarization #8Best —

Best LLM for Math & Reasoning #2Best —

Best LLM for Logic & Problem Solving #4Best #9

Best LLM for Agentic Coding #5Best —

Best LLM for Translation #6Best #8

Best LLM for a General Assistant #5Best #10

Best LLM for RAG & Long Context #3Best —

Best LLM for OCR & Documents #1Best —

Best LLM for AI Agents #6Best —

Best LLM for Roleplay & Character #2Best —

Best LLM for Structured Data Extraction #7Best —

Best LLM for Document Parsing #3Best —

Best LLM for Frontend & UI #6Best —

Best LLM for Chat & Roleplay #2Best —

Best LLM for Competition Math #3Best —

Best LLM for Massive Context #3Best —

Best Cheap LLM for High Volume #8Best —

Cheapest Capable LLM #5Best —

Best LLM for Hermes Agent #6Best —