Claude Sonnet 5.5 Burns ~193k Output Tokens Per Task, 7x More Than GPT-6 Astra
ArtificialAnlys · x · 2026-09-29
Artificial Analysis measured that Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max) uses 193k output tokens per Intelligence Index task — the most they have measured and roughly 7x GPT-6 Astra (max) — trading massive reasoning volume for top performance.
At lower effort settings the tradeoff is less favorable: low, medium, and high efforts each sit behind GPT-6 Sol's high, xhigh, and max efforts on the intelligence-versus-output-token curve, meaning Sol achieves higher performance with fewer tokens at comparable budgets.
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