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Claude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic Remove
MAI-Transcribe 2Microsoft Remove
GPT-6 AstraOpenAI Remove
Aura-2Deepgram Remove

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claude-sonnet-5.5 vs mai-transcribe-2 vs gpt-6-astra vs aura-2
Attribute	Claude Sonnet 5.5claude-sonnet-5.5	MAI-Transcribe 2mai-transcribe-2	GPT-6 Astragpt-6-astra	Aura-2aura-2
Pricing
Input	$2.00 / 1M	$0 / 1M	$10.00 / 1M	$0 / 1M
Output	$10.00 / 1M	$0 / 1M	$50.00 / 1M	$0 / 1M
Cache Write (5m)	$2.50 / 1M	Not applicable	$10.00 / 1M	Not applicable
Cache Write (1h)	$4.00 / 1M	Not applicable	$10.00 / 1M	Not applicable
Cache Read	$0.20 / 1M	Not applicable	$10.00 / 1M	Not applicable
Web Search	$0 / 1M	$0 / 1M	$0 / 1M	$0 / 1M
Context
Max context	1M	N/A	1M	N/A
Max output	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Capabilities
Vision	Yes	No	Yes	No
Function Calling	Yes	No	Yes	No
JSON Mode	Yes	No	Yes	No
Streaming	Yes	No	Yes	No
Catalogue
Provider	Anthropic	Microsoft	OpenAI	Deepgram
Category	chat	voice	chat	voice
Charge type	Pay As You Go	Pay As You Go	Pay As You Go	Pay As You Go
Released	—	2026-09-03	—	2026-07-16
Description
Summary	Claude Sonnet 5.5 is Anthropic's Sonnet-class model for well-scoped everyday work, serving as a direct upgrade to Sonnet 5. It excels at feature development, bug fixing, and creating polished documents, presentations, and spreadsheets, while offering clearer writing and communication than its predecessor.	Microsoft MAI-Transcribe-2 speech-to-text. Billed per second of audio.	GPT-6 Astra is OpenAI's flagship model for demanding end-to-end professional work, designed for advanced analysis, software engineering, deep research, scientific tasks, and document creation. It is particularly strong in long-horizon agentic workflows, including tasks that require sustained reasoning, tool orchestration, and computer and browser use, making it well suited for complex autonomous workflows and production-grade knowledge work.	Deepgram Aura-2 text-to-speech for real-time voice applications. Billed per input character.