Token efficiency is where things get interesting. GPT-5.5 uses 72% fewer output tokens than Opus 4.7 on the same coding tasks. Fewer tokens means lower cost per task, even though GPT-5.5 costs $30/M output vs Claude's $25/M. But Claude's time-to-first-token is roughly 0.5s vs
Token efficiency: GPT-5.5 vs Claude Opus 4.7 cost and speed
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