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Vision-language
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
- Released
- 20 Jun 2024
- Status
- Retired
- Retired
- 28 Oct 2025
- Context
- 200K
- Max output
- 8.2K
- Input per 1M tokens
- $3.00
- Output per 1M tokens
- $15.00
- Open weights
- No
- License
- proprietary
- Parameters
- —
- Knowledge cutoff
- Apr 2024
- Reasoning
- No
- Modalities
- text, image → text
Category scores
Out of 100, from independent and third-party results only, by method category-2026-09-29.1.
| Category | Score | Rank | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knowledge & reasoning | 29.7 | Not ranked | 1 of 4 |
| Coding & software engineering | 28.1 | Not ranked | 2 of 5 |
| Agentic tool use | 32.6 | Not ranked | 1 of 2 |
| Professional knowledge work | 24.0 | 6 | 1 of 1 |
| Vision & multimodal understanding | 31.0 | 13 | 2 of 3 |
| Human preference | 33.2 | Not ranked | 2 of 5 |
Benchmark results
Every result we hold for this model, with who ran it and where it was published.
Knowledge & reasoning
| Benchmark | Metric | Value | Provenance | Setting | Evaluated | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DTBench (Decision Theory Benchmark) | Accuracy (capability questions) | 67.8% | Third party | — | — | https://conceptualreasoning.ai/dtbench via Epoch AI |
| DTBench (Decision Theory Benchmark) | Accuracy (capability questions) | 67.8% | Third party | — | — | https://conceptualreasoning.ai/dtbench via Epoch AI |
| MMLU | Accuracy | 87.3% | Third party | — | — | Stanford CRFM Leaderboard via Epoch AI |
| MMLU | Accuracy | 86.5% | Third party | — | — | Stanford CRFM Leaderboard via Epoch AI |
| SimpleBench | Score (AVG@5) | 41.4% | Third party | — | — | SimpleBench Leaderboard via Epoch AI |
| SimpleBench | Score (AVG@5) | 27.5% | Third party | — | — | SimpleBench Leaderboard via Epoch AI |
Scientific reasoning
| Benchmark | Metric | Value | Provenance | Setting | Evaluated | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | Accuracy | 55.3% | Independent | — | 27 Jan 2025 | Epoch AI |
| GPQA Diamond | Accuracy | 54.0% | Independent | — | 27 Jan 2025 | Epoch AI |
Mathematics
| Benchmark | Metric | Value | Provenance | Setting | Evaluated | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | Accuracy | 0.0% | Independent | — | 1 Jul 2025 | Epoch AI |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | Accuracy | 0.0% | Independent | — | 1 Jul 2025 | Epoch AI |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (v1) | Accuracy | 2.1% | Independent | — | 6 Mar 2025 | Epoch AI |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (v1) | Accuracy | 1.0% | Independent | — | 7 Mar 2025 | Epoch AI |
| MATH Level 5 | Accuracy | 56.9% | Independent | — | 27 Jan 2025 | Epoch AI |
| MATH Level 5 | Accuracy | 51.7% | Independent | — | 27 Jan 2025 | Epoch AI |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | Accuracy | 8.5% | Independent | — | 25 Feb 2025 | Epoch AI |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | Accuracy | 6.5% | Independent | — | 25 Feb 2025 | Epoch AI |
Coding & software engineering
| Benchmark | Metric | Value | Provenance | Setting | Evaluated | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | Percent correct | 51.6% | Third party | — | — | https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/ via Epoch AI |
| CadEval | Overall pass rate | 48.0% | Third party | — | — | CadEval Dashboard via Epoch AI |
| Cybench | Unguided challenges solved | 17.5% | Third party | — | — | Cybench leaderboard via Epoch AI |
| GSO | OPT@1 | 4.6% | Third party | — | — | GSO Leaderboard via Epoch AI |
| METR Time Horizons | Average task success (Epoch's column) | 45.2% | Third party | — | — | https://metr.org/blog/2025-03-19-measuring-ai-ability-to-complete-long-tasks/ via Epoch AI |
| METR Time Horizons | Average task success (Epoch's column) | 40.2% | Third party | — | — | https://metr.org/blog/2025-03-19-measuring-ai-ability-to-complete-long-tasks/ via Epoch AI |
| WeirdML (v2) | Average accuracy | 40.0% | Third party | — | — | https://htihle.github.io/weirdml.html via Epoch AI |
| WeirdML (v2) | Average accuracy | 31.0% | Third party | — | — | https://htihle.github.io/weirdml.html via Epoch AI |
Agentic tool use
| Benchmark | Metric | Value | Provenance | Setting | Evaluated | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BALROG | Average progress | 32.6% | Third party | — | — | https://balrogai.com/ via Epoch AI |
Professional knowledge work
| Benchmark | Metric | Value | Provenance | Setting | Evaluated | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | Tasks resolved | 24.0% | Third party | — | — | TheAgentCompany experiment results github via Epoch AI |
Vision & multimodal understanding
| Benchmark | Metric | Value | Provenance | Setting | Evaluated | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GeoBench | Country accuracy | 62.0% | Third party | — | — | GeoBench leaderboard via Epoch AI |
| Visual Physics Comprehension Test (VPCT) | Correct | 33.0% | Third party | — | — | VPCT leaderboard via Epoch AI |
| Visual Physics Comprehension Test (VPCT) | Correct | 33.0% | Third party | — | — | VPCT leaderboard via Epoch AI |
Writing
| Benchmark | Metric | Value | Provenance | Setting | Evaluated | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LLM Creative Story-Writing Benchmark V1 (Lech Mazur) | Mean rubric score (percent of the 10-point scale) | 80.3% | Third party | — | — | lechmazur/writing Github repository via Epoch AI |
Human preference
| Benchmark | Metric | Value | Provenance | Setting | Evaluated | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text Arena (arena.ai) | Arena score (Elo scale) | 1374 | Independent | — | 25 Sep 2026 | Arena |
| Text Arena (arena.ai) | Arena score (Elo scale) | 1343 | Independent | — | 25 Sep 2026 | Arena |
| Text Arena (arena.ai) | Votes | 87644 | Independent | — | 25 Sep 2026 | Arena |
| Text Arena (arena.ai) | Votes | 82419 | Independent | — | 25 Sep 2026 | Arena |
| Vision Arena (arena.ai) | Arena score (Elo scale) | 1161 | Independent | — | 28 Sep 2026 | Arena |
| Vision Arena (arena.ai) | Arena score (Elo scale) | 1145 | Independent | — | 28 Sep 2026 | Arena |
| Vision Arena (arena.ai) | Votes | 21624 | Independent | — | 28 Sep 2026 | Arena |
| Vision Arena (arena.ai) | Votes | 10376 | Independent | — | 28 Sep 2026 | Arena |
Other Claude Sonnet versions
- Claude Sonnet 5.528 Sep 2026
- Claude Sonnet 530 Jun 2026
- Claude Sonnet 4.617 Feb 2026
- Claude Sonnet 4.529 Sep 2025
- Claude Sonnet 422 May 2025
- Claude 3.7 Sonnet24 Feb 2025
- Claude 3 Sonnet4 Mar 2024