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Claude Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6.1 Terra: which delivered after 7 days?
Claude Opus 5.5 is stamped Delivered; GPT-6.1 Terra is still Too early to call, so this comparison isn't settled yet.
| Claude Opus 5.5 | GPT-6.1 Terra | |
|---|---|---|
| Verdict | Delivered | Too early |
| Claims held | 2 | 3 |
| Claims mixed | 2 | 0 |
| Claims failed | 0 | 1 |
| Claims unclear | 1 | 0 |
| User reports | 10 | 2 |
| Launched | 22 Sept 2026 | 26 Oct 2026 |
| Last stamped | 30 Oct 2026 | 30 Oct 2026 |
No. 002 · Anthropic
Claude Opus 5.5
The 20% price cut and 30% speed-up check out, and Epoch and Agent Arena put it at Fable level. It uses more tokens, so cost per task isn't 40% lower.
- Launched
- 22 Sept 2026
- Stamped
- 30 Oct 2026
- Claims
- ✓2 held · ~2 mixed · ✗0 failed · ?1 unclear
- Reports
- 10 (2 praise · 7 problem · 1 mixed)
What they claimed
“It performs at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 on most work and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5.”~ Mixed
“Input and output tokens are $4 and $20 per million, 20% less than Opus 5.”✓ Holds
“In addition to the price drop, we’re increasing five-hour usage limits on Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans.”~ Mixed
“It is much less likely than recent models to take hard-to-reverse actions or act outside the boundaries it’s been given”? Unclear
“Opus 5.5 also generates output more than 30% faster than Opus 5.”✓ Holds
No. 011 · OpenAI
GPT-6.1 Terra
Day 4 of 7Cheap and the coding gain is real, but independent timing finds it about 15 to 25% faster than Sol, nowhere near 3x.
- Launched
- 26 Oct 2026
- Stamped
- 30 Oct 2026
- Claims
- ✓3 held · ~0 mixed · ✗1 failed · ?0 unclear
- Reports
- 2 (0 praise · 0 problem · 2 mixed)
What they claimed
“At max effort, Terra is over three times as token efficient as Claude Opus 5.5, and one-fourth its price per token, resulting in a ~9x lower cost per task.”✓ Holds
“Terra is also much quicker, completing tasks over three times faster than both GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol.”✗ Fails
“At maximum reasoning effort, GPT‑6.1 Terra solves 50.3% of tasks, more than double GPT‑5.6 Terra’s published score of 21.5%.”✓ Holds
“Standard API pricing is $1 per million input tokens, $0.05 per million cached input tokens, and $5 per million output tokens.”✓ Holds
Both stamps come from the public user reports linked on each receipt, under the same method. Verdicts are opinion and are never paid for.
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