# Claude Opus 4.8 vs GPT-5.6 Luna

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads GPT-5.6 Luna in 9 of 10 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, Coding, Coding › Agentic, Coding › Web dev, Long context, Vision, Factuality, and Abstraction (ARC).

Claude Opus 4.8: $10 per 1M blended tokens.

GPT-5.6 Luna: $0.44999999999999996 per 1M blended tokens.

Claude Opus 4.8: closed weights.

GPT-5.6 Luna: closed weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads GPT-5.6 Luna in General LLM at #20 against #53.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads GPT-5.6 Luna in Reasoning at #10 against #55.
- Which to pick, Science: As of Oct 14, 2026, GPT-5.6 Luna leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Science at #25 against #27.
- Which to pick, Coding: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads GPT-5.6 Luna in Coding at #12 against #16.
- Which to pick, Coding › Agentic: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads GPT-5.6 Luna in Coding › Agentic at #12 against #16.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads GPT-5.6 Luna in Coding › Web dev at #33 against #43.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads GPT-5.6 Luna in Long context at #10 against #65.
- Which to pick, Vision: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads GPT-5.6 Luna in Vision at #13 against #19.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads GPT-5.6 Luna in Factuality at #21 against #35.
- Which to pick, Abstraction (ARC): As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads GPT-5.6 Luna in Abstraction (ARC) at #12 against #19.

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 is a former state-of-the-art holder in Coding › Web dev (since Jun 5, 2026; sources LMArena WebDev; methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 14, 2026, GPT-5.6 Luna is ranked #16 in Coding (since Oct 14, 2026; sources Terminal-Bench 4.0; methodology v1.0).
