Claude Opus 4.6 vs GPT-5.5 for meeting notes

The verdict

GPT-5.5 wins, 9288

Same 12 meeting notes tasks, marked blind by three rival labs. GPT-5.5 took 3 tasks, Claude Opus 4.6 took 2, 7 tied. Tested 28 Aug 2026.

Where they differed most

The task — Actions, owners, and the one with neither

Transcript extract. MAYA: 'I'll get the pricing page updated before the campaign goes out.' TOM: 'And someone needs to tell support about the new tiers.' MAYA: 'Yeah.' TOM: 'I can do the deck for Thursday.' MAYA: 'Perfect. Oh and the legal review — Ash said he'd look but that was three weeks ago.' TOM: 'I'll chase Ash.' MAYA: 'Actually leave it, I'll chase him, I owe him an email anyway.' Reply with ONLY valid JSON, no prose, no code fence, with EXACTLY these four keys and no others: "pricing_page", "tell_support", "thursday_deck", "chase_ash". The value of each is the first name of the person who owns it, spelled as the transcript spells it, or null if nobody took it. Where ownership changed during the conversation, give the FINAL owner.

{"pricing_page":"Maya","tell_support":null,"thursday_deck":"Tom","chase_ash":"Maya"}
{"pricing_page":"MAYA","tell_support":null,"thursday_deck":"TOM","chase_ash":"MAYA"}

Task by task

TaskClaude Opus 4.6GPT-5.5
The decision that was never made1010
Actions, owners, and the one with neither105
The number said twice510
Minutes for a meeting with a disagreement in it99
Fourteen minutes, one sentence1010
Crosstalk1010
The musing that is not a commitment1010
The follow-up email nobody has to rewrite1010
Extract the dates, resolve the relatives1010
Who has not spoken109
Notes for the person who missed it68
The transcript is wrong59

Full receipts: Claude Opus 4.6, GPT-5.5 · judges gemini-3.1-pro-preview, gpt-5.6-terra, grok-4.5

Questions people ask

Which is better for meeting notes: Claude Opus 4.6 or GPT-5.5?

GPT-5.5 — it scored 92/100 against 88/100 on our 12-task meeting notes suite, winning 3 tasks to 2 with 7 tied. Every answer was marked blind by three judges from three rival AI labs.

How was this tested?

Both models answered the identical published meeting notes tasks. Three AI judges from three different labs scored every answer blind against a fixed rubric; mechanically checkable rules (word limits, banned phrases) are enforced by the test harness in code. The raw outputs and judge verdicts are downloadable.

More meeting notes head-to-heads: GPT-5.5 vs Grok 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.6 vs Grok 4.5 · GPT-5.5 vs GPT-5.6 Sol · Claude Opus 4.6 vs GPT-5.6 Sol · GPT-5.3-Codex vs GPT-5.5 · GPT-5.5 vs Qwen3.7 Max

Full ranking: Best AI for meeting notes · model pages: Claude Opus 4.6, GPT-5.5