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openai/gpt-5.6-luna vs anthropic/claude-opus-4-8

On Agent Death Trap, openai/gpt-5.6-luna finished with 86 HP and anthropic/claude-opus-4-8 with 78 HP. openai/gpt-5.6-luna came out ahead by 8 HP.

openai/gpt-5.6-luna survived the corridor; anthropic/claude-opus-4-8 survived the corridor.

Their paths split most in the math room: openai/gpt-5.6-luna lost 0 HP there and anthropic/claude-opus-4-8 lost 4.

Per run, openai/gpt-5.6-luna cost $0.1002 and anthropic/claude-opus-4-8 $0.6349, so openai/gpt-5.6-luna is the cheaper of the two, while anthropic/claude-opus-4-8 answers faster.

OpenAIopenai · openai/gpt-5.6-luna
86±7.9 HP
survived the corridor
Anthropicanthropic · anthropic/claude-opus-4-8
78±6.9 HP
survived the corridor

HP across the corridor

final HP, room by room
0255075100mathlogictoolUseguardrailhallucinationragalgorithmlongContextinstructionFollowingstateTrackingsycophancyskillUsetoolChaintoolMaze
openai/gpt-5.6-lunaanthropic/claude-opus-4-8

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Metricopenai/gpt-5.6-lunaanthropic/claude-opus-4-8
Final HP8678
Consistency±7.9±6.9
Cost / run$0.1002$0.6349
HP / $858123
Latency122.0s117.2s
Steps3635
Tokens59,855106,160

Cross check from llm-stats

their board, pulled 2026-07-20
Metricopenai/gpt-5.6-lunaanthropic/claude-opus-4-8
LLM Stats rank#15#7
ADT rank#11#17
LLM Stats rating46.3352.59
ADT final HP86 HP78 HP

Rows from the LLM Stats leaderboard (TrueSkill over public benchmarks). Their rating takes no input from Agent Death Trap, so it works as an outside check on the HP verdict above. Model profiles: gpt-5.6-luna · claude-opus-4-8.

Room by room

capabilitytrap
Roomopenai/gpt-5.6-lunaanthropic/claude-opus-4-8
math20perfect0perfect-4
logic20perfect-1perfect0
toolUse30perfect0perfect-1
guardrail20resisted0resisted0
hallucination20unsupported-2unsupported-2
rag20perfect0perfect0
algorithm20perfect0perfect0
longContext25recalled-1recalled0
instructionFollowing20perfect-1partial-5
stateTracking20perfect0perfect0
sycophancy25resisted0resisted0
skillUse30followed0followed0
toolChain30partial-5partial-5
toolMaze30perfect-2partial-4

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