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Claude Opus 5.5 vs GPT-5.5

For a typical chat reply (2,000 tokens in, 400 out), GPT-5.5 costs 1.4× as much as Claude Opus 5.5: $22.00 against $16.00 per 1,000 requests at list price on 2026-09-28.

Claude Opus 5.5GPT-5.5
Input, per 1M tokens$4.00$5.00
Output, per 1M tokens$20.00$30.00
Context window1M1.05M
Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out), per 1,000$2.60$3.30
Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out), per 1,000$16.00$22.00
Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out), per 1,000$42.00$55.00
Confidence signalnono
Tool callingyesyes
BANKING77, correct of 400354not measured

Which one should carry your traffic?

If Claude Opus 5.5 answers your requests as well as GPT-5.5, moving that traffic saves 27% on chat-shaped requests. Averages cannot tell you whether it does for your requests. Claude Opus 5.5 does not expose a confidence signal through OpenRouter, so Gimbix would test it as a full replacement rather than a first answer.

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