Benchmark Almanac

Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024)

Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024) ranks first on 7 of the 95 benchmarks with five or more models scored.

Anthropic Released October 22nd, 2024 Compare with others
102
Benchmarks with a score
7
Ranked first, out of five or more models
18
In the top three
Anthropic Oct 2024

Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024)

Closed weights

133.4 #149 of 256
Epoch Capabilities Index
Self-Reported Index 126.8 #304 of 404
  • Humanity's Last Exam 4.08% #45 /47
  • ZeroBench 3.00% #55 /76
  • GPQA Diamond 55.3% #148 /229

Where it ranks

Its best score on each benchmark, and where that ranks among every model with a score there. We rank each model once, at its best setting.

Knowledge and language

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
BIG-Bench Hard 93.2% #2 of 73 Lab model card
MGSM 92.5% #3 of 57 Lab model card
ToRR 49.9 #1 of 14 Official leaderboard
MMLU 90.5% #10 of 131 Lab model card
Arena-Hard-Auto 85.2% #3 of 38 Official leaderboard
MMBench-CN v1.1 82.5% #29 of 178 Official leaderboard
IFEval 90.2% #28 of 135 Lab model card
DROP 88.3% #10 of 41 Lab model card
SuperGPQA 48.2% #25 of 59 Official leaderboard
LMArena (Elo) 1,374 #158 of 335 Official leaderboard
Creation-MMBench -15.46 #9 of 19 Official leaderboard
MMLU-Pro 78% #92 of 167 Lab model card
LongBench v2 46.7% #19 of 33 Official leaderboard
AgentIF 56.6% #7 of 12 Official leaderboard
LLM Confabulation Leaderboard 19.9% #37 of 58 Official leaderboard
Arena-Hard v2.0 33% #16 of 23 Official leaderboard
Honesty human feedback win rate (Anthropic) 55% #5 of 6 Lab model card
Humanity's Last Exam 4.08% #45 of 47 Official leaderboard

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
ZebraLogic 36.2% #7 of 46 Official leaderboard
MATH 78.3% #30 of 99 Lab model card
CNMO 2024 13.1% #3 of 7 Official leaderboard
GPQA Main 56.5% #28 of 60 Official leaderboard
MATH Level 5 57% #44 of 94 Epoch AI run
GSM8K Platinum Initial 268 98.9% #10 of 19 Official leaderboard
Misguided Attention 37.2% #27 of 45 Official leaderboard
GPQA Diamond 55.3% #148 of 229 Epoch AI run
DTBench 67.8% #119 of 180 Official leaderboard
SimpleBench 41.4% #71 of 106 Official leaderboard
TSP-Opt 13.3% #8 of 11 Official leaderboard
GSM8K-Platinum 99.1% #6 of 8 Official leaderboard
U-MATH 38.7% #23 of 30 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath 2.07% #54 of 70 Epoch AI run
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 8.47% #164 of 212 Epoch AI run
FrontierMath Tier 4 0% #47 of 55 Epoch AI run
AIME 2024 27.6% #82 of 88 Lab model card

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Aider-Edit 84.2% #1 of 34 Official leaderboard
HumanEval 93.7% #6 of 101 Lab model card
HumanEval-V 36.8% #2 of 24 Official leaderboard
SWE-PolyBench 14.1% #1 of 6 Official leaderboard
MHPP 48.1% #4 of 23 Official leaderboard
SciCode 4.60% #4 of 18 Official leaderboard
Multi-SWE-bench 7.97% #3 of 11 Official leaderboard
Internal agentic coding evaluation (Anthropic) 78% #1 of 3 Lab model card
METR Time Horizon 30 min #15 of 31 Official leaderboard
METR Time Horizon 1.1 21 min #16 of 26 Official leaderboard
LiveCodeBench v5 36.5% #16 of 21 Official leaderboard
LiveCodeBench v6 36.4% #16 of 21 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Multimodal 25.3% #7 of 9 Official leaderboard
GSO-Bench 4.60% #24 of 30 Official leaderboard
LiveCodeBench 54.1% #17 of 21 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Verified 49% #133 of 155 Lab model card
ArtifactsBench 39.9% #19 of 20 Official leaderboard

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
ComplexFuncBench 61% #1 of 11 Official leaderboard
Factorio Learning Environment 293206.0 #1 of 6 Official leaderboard
Elimination Game 5 #14 of 56 Official leaderboard
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) 56.9% #33 of 67 Official leaderboard
tau-bench Airline 46% #1 of 2 Official leaderboard
tau-bench Retail 69.2% #1 of 2 Official leaderboard
LisanBench 459.7 #69 of 133 Official leaderboard
Step Race 2 #34 of 59 Official leaderboard
LLM Chess -99 #74 of 123 Official leaderboard
tau-bench 57.6% #15 of 23 Lab model card
Galileo Agent Leaderboard 0.80 #23 of 29 Official leaderboard
OSWorld 14.9% #11 of 13 Lab model card
OSWorld-Verified 22% #41 of 41 Lab model card

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
MedQA 85.9% #2 of 71 Official leaderboard
MedHELM 54.2 #6 of 13 Official leaderboard
CadEval 48% #7 of 13 Official leaderboard
Vending-Bench $2,218 #6 of 9 Official leaderboard

Vision, audio and robotics

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
AI2D 95.3% #2 of 52 Lab model card
MEGA-Bench 54.3% #1 of 22 Official leaderboard
ChartQA 90.8% #3 of 37 Lab model card
MM-Vet 70.1% #20 of 164 Official leaderboard
KRETA 80.5% #3 of 17 Official leaderboard
MMStar 65.1% #31 of 173 Official leaderboard
Video-MMMU 65.8% #5 of 24 Official leaderboard
MMVU 65.2% #6 of 28 Official leaderboard
MMBench 82.6% #35 of 155 Official leaderboard
MMBench-EN v1.1 80.9% #47 of 178 Official leaderboard
CCBench (MMBench Chinese Culture) 56.1% #46 of 152 Official leaderboard
DocVQA 94.2% #16 of 36 Lab model card
Image2Struct 60.5 #8 of 18 Official leaderboard
VHELM 49.7 #24 of 41 Official leaderboard
MMMU 70.4% #61 of 103 Lab model card
MathVista 70.7% #45 of 70 Lab model card
VISTA 38.7% #35 of 54 Official leaderboard
Vision Arena 1,161 #94 of 136 Official leaderboard
ZeroBench 3.00% #55 of 76 Official leaderboard
VPCT 33% #26 of 27 VPCT leaderboard, via Epoch AI
CompassArena Multimodal 1,026 #8 of 8 Official leaderboard
CC-OCR 62.7% #3 of 3 Official leaderboard

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
AIR-Bench 2024 90.8% #2 of 82 Official leaderboard
AgentDojo 1.11% #1 of 20 Official leaderboard
XSTest 4.30% #4 of 16 Lab model card
Human Pathogen Capabilities Test 49.9% #47 of 86 Official leaderboard
WildChat non-toxic incorrect refusals (Anthropic) 5.30% #2 of 3 Lab model card
WildChat toxic refusals (Anthropic) 89.2% #2 of 3 Lab model card
Molecular Biology Capabilities Test 42.9% #65 of 90 Official leaderboard
Harmlessness human feedback win rate (Anthropic) 48% #3 of 4 Lab model card

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
HELM Lite 84.6 #9 of 71 Official leaderboard
OpenVLM Leaderboard 70.6 #33 of 173 Official leaderboard
HELM Capabilities 65.3 #32 of 60 Official leaderboard

Its lab's numbers put it at 126.8, 6.6 points below its ECI

The Self-Reported Index fits one score to the 19 capability results Anthropic reported for this model, on the scale of the Epoch Capabilities Index. Labs choose which benchmarks to show and how to run them, so read it as the lab's claim, not an independent measurement. The 90% interval runs from 124.2 to 129.4. How we compute it.

Its lab's numbers next to 3 leaderboards

Where the benchmark's own leaderboard, or Epoch AI's run, also has this model. Gaps mostly come from different harnesses, effort levels and task subsets. Every pair.

Benchmark Lab says Board says Gap
GPQA Diamond 65% GPQA (Diamond) (0-shot CoT) 55.3% Epoch AI run +9.7 pts
IFEval 90.2% IFEval 85.5% Leaderboard, strict, share of instructions followed +4.7 pts
MMLU-Pro 78% MMLU Pro (0-shot CoT) 78% Leaderboard Same

Anthropic's models over time

Anthropic's models in color, against every other model on the Epoch Capabilities Index, by release date.

50 100 150 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Claude Fable 5.2 Claude Haiku 5.5 Claude Sonnet 4.6 Claude Haiku 4.5 Claude 3.7 Sonnet Claude 3.5 Haiku Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024) 50 100 150 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Claude Fable 5.2 Claude Haiku 5.5

Source: Epoch Capabilities Index, Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)

Its launch post

The benchmarks the lab chose to headline, with the scores it gave.

Its system card

Every result in the longer documents the lab published with it. 8 of them aren't in the launch post.