Claude 3.7 Sonnet Extended Thinking vs GPT-3.5 Turbo 1106: Benchmarks, Pricing, and Context Window Comparison
Claude 3.7 Sonnet Extended Thinking vs GPT-3.5 Turbo 1106 compares provider, context window, token pricing, benchmark performance, and release timeline in one side-by-side view. Use this page to quickly identify which model is a better fit for your production constraints, quality targets, and estimated cost per request.
Verdict
GPT-3.5 Turbo 1106 has lower listed token pricing, while Claude 3.7 Sonnet Extended Thinking can still be preferable if benchmark results better match your workload.
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Overview
Claude 3.7 Sonnet Extended Thinking was released 16 months after GPT-3.5 Turbo 1106.
 Claude 3.7 Sonnet Extended Thinking |  GPT-3.5 Turbo 1106 | |
|---|---|---|
Provider The entity that provides this model. | Anthropic | OpenAI |
Input Context Window The number of tokens supported by the input context window. | 200K tokens | 16.4K tokens |
Maximum Output Tokens The number of tokens that can be generated by the model in a single request. | 64000 tokens | 16.4K tokens |
Release Date When the model was first released. | Feb 24, 2025 over 1 yearago 2025-02-24 | Nov 06, 2023 over 1 year 2023-11-06 |
Leaderboard
| Claude 3.7 Sonnet Extended Thinking | GPT-3.5 Turbo 1106 | |
|---|---|---|
Rank | Unknown | 46 |
Arena Elo | Not specified. | 1072 |
95% CI | Not specified. | +5/-4 |
Votes | Not specified. | 17819 |
License | Not specified. | Proprietary |
Knowledge Cutoff | Unknown | 9/2021 9/2021 |
Pricing
| Claude 3.7 Sonnet Extended Thinking | GPT-3.5 Turbo 1106 | |
|---|---|---|
Input Cost of input data provided to the model. | $3 per million tokens | $1.00 per million tokens |
Output Cost of output tokens generated by the model. | $15 per million tokens | $2.00 per million tokens |
Benchmarks
Compare relevant benchmarks between Claude 3.7 Sonnet Extended Thinking and GPT-3.5 Turbo 1106 Instruct.
| Claude 3.7 Sonnet Extended Thinking | GPT-3.5 Turbo 1106 | |
|---|---|---|
MMLU Evaluating LLM knowledge acquisition in zero-shot and few-shot settings. | Benchmark not available. | Benchmark not available. |
MMMU A wide ranging multi-discipline and multimodal benchmark. | 75 | Benchmark not available. |
HellaSwag A challenging sentence completion benchmark. | Benchmark not available. | Benchmark not available. |