Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs GPT-6 Luna
Reading a 26.2K-token pull request costs $0.0524 on Claude Sonnet 5.5, 20× the $0.0026 it costs on GPT-6 Luna. Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a mid-range model and GPT-6 Luna a economy one. The benchmark cannot separate their recall: Claude Sonnet 5.5 minus GPT-6 Luna is +10 pts (95% interval −7 pts to +27 pts).
Side by side
| Figure | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | GPT-6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid-range | Economy |
| Bugs caughtshare of known bugs | 77% (better) | 67% |
| False alarmsper clean PR | 2.0 | 0.7 (better) |
| Cost per reviewmeasured | $0.0571 | $0.0028 (better) |
| Cost per bug caught | $0.083 | $0.0046 (better) |
| Exact linecatches on the expected lines | 82% | 97% (better) |
| Review timemean | 11s (better) | 29s |
| Typical review calllist price | $0.0766 | $0.0038 (better) |
| Input / 1M tokens | $2.00 | $0.10 (better) |
| Output / 1M tokens | $10.00 | $0.50 (better) |
| Context window | 1M | 1.1M |
Head to head
The known bugs both were scored on, by who caught each in at least one run.
By language
| Model | All | TypeScript6 bugs | Go4 bugs | Java4 bugs | Rust4 bugs | C#3 bugs | JavaScript3 bugs | Kotlin3 bugs | PHP3 bugs | Python3 bugs | Ruby3 bugs | Swift3 bugs | C++2 bugs | C1 bug |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | 77% | 83% | 50% | 45% | 100% | 56% | 100% | 67% | 67% | 67% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| GPT-6 Luna | 67% | 83% | 25% | 65% | 75% | 56% | 67% | 67% | 67% | 100% | 67% | 100% | 50% | 0% |
Of the 42 known bugs both were scored on, both caught 24 and neither caught 4. Claude Sonnet 5.5 caught 9 bugs that GPT-6 Luna missed: 1 in C, 1 in C++, 1 in Go, 1 in JavaScript, 1 in Kotlin, 1 in PHP, 1 in Ruby, 1 in Rust and 1 in TypeScript. GPT-6 Luna caught 5 bugs that Claude Sonnet 5.5 missed: 1 in Java, 1 in Kotlin, 1 in PHP, 1 in Python and 1 in TypeScript, most of them logic bugs.
On pull requests with no known bug, Claude Sonnet 5.5 raised 2 false alarms per review and GPT-6 Luna 0.7. A measured review cost $0.0571 on Claude Sonnet 5.5, 20× the cost of $0.0028 on GPT-6 Luna.
| Pull request | Language · kind | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | GPT-6 Luna |
|---|---|---|---|
| c-ares/c-aresEvent Thread could stall when not notified of new queries on existing connections that are in a bad state | C · Resource handling | 1/1 | 0/1 |
| ggml-org/llama.cpprpc : cache and reuse compute graphs | C++ · Security | 1/1 | 0/1 |
| golang/gocrypto/tls: add LocalCertificate to ConnectionState | Go · Logic | 1/1 | 0/1 |
| kotest/kotestFix DataClassEq comparator | Kotlin · Logic | 1/1 | 0/1 |
| nushell/nushellreorganize nushell configuration | Rust · Error handling | 1/1 | 0/1 |
| sindresorhus/p-throttleAdd `weight` option | JavaScript · Logic | 1/1 | 0/1 |
| socketry/asyncBarrier wait in completion order + `Queue#close`. | Ruby · Concurrency | 1/1 | 0/1 |
| symfony/symfony[Security] Allow multiple OIDC discovery endpoints | PHP · Security | 1/1 | 0/1 |
| withastro/astroPort Go's csrf protection | TypeScript · Logic | 1/1 | 0/1 |
| TanStack/queryfix(query-core): fix hydration bugs for already resolved promises | TypeScript · Logic | 0/1 | 1/1 |
| aio-libs/aiohttpkeep websocket compression state across interleaved control frames | Python · Logic | 0/1 | 1/1 |
| doctrine/ormFix collection filtering API for IN/NOT IN comparisons that require type conversions | PHP · Logic | 0/1 | 1/1 |
| iBotPeaches/Apktoolrefactor: Improve renaming/injection of resources in stripped APKs | Java · Security | 0/1 | 1/1 |
| ktorio/ktorKTOR-9171 Redesign ByteReadChannel.readUTF8Line API | Kotlin · Logic | 0/1 | 1/1 |
Defects caught over all runs: a PR reviewed three times with one known bug shows 3/3 when it was caught every time.
Every bug each was scored on: Claude Sonnet 5.5 and GPT-6 Luna.