Benchmark Almanac

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Claude 3.5 Sonnet ranks first on 6 of the 139 benchmarks with five or more models scored.

Anthropic Released June 20th, 2024 Family Claude 3.5 The lab's model card Compare with others
150
Benchmarks with a score
6
Ranked first, out of five or more models
22
In the top three
Anthropic Jun 2024

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Closed weights Mid-size

130.0 #157 of 256
Epoch Capabilities Index
Self-Reported Index 132.0 #261 of 404
  • ZeroBench 2.00% #63 /76
  • GPQA Diamond 54% #149 /229
  • FrontierMath 2.07% #48 /55

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
EQ-Bench v2 86.4 #1 of 85 Official leaderboard
MixEval 89.9% #1 of 34 Official leaderboard
BIG-Bench Hard 93.1% #3 of 73 Lab model card
ThaiExam 75.1% #1 of 24 Official leaderboard
MMLU 90.4% #11 of 131 Lab model card
MGSM 91.6% #6 of 57 Lab model card
WildBench 54.5 #6 of 47 Official leaderboard
FACTS Grounding 83.3% #5 of 34 Official leaderboard
Chinese SimpleQA 53.5% #5 of 27 Official leaderboard
Arena-Hard-Auto 79.3% #8 of 38 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench 52.7% #24 of 107 Official leaderboard
SEAL Precise Instruction Following 86.0 #5 of 18 Official leaderboard
MMBench-CN v1.1 79.3% #53 of 178 Official leaderboard
MMLU-Pro 76.1% #69 of 212 Official leaderboard
Needle In A Haystack 99.7% #3 of 9 Lab model card
Honesty human feedback win rate (Anthropic) 66% #2 of 6 Lab model card
DROP 87.1% #14 of 41 Lab model card
JudgeBench 64.3% #4 of 11 Official leaderboard
RewardBench 84.2% #19 of 48 Official leaderboard
ECLeKTic 20% #15 of 35 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench V2 46% #58 of 129 Official leaderboard
AidanBench 1439.0 #6 of 13 Official leaderboard
MARS-Bench 43.2% #7 of 15 Official leaderboard
Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard (HHEM) 4.60% #81 of 148 Official leaderboard
LMArena (Elo) 1,343 #184 of 335 Official leaderboard
Longform Creative Writing (EQ-Bench) 58.4 #67 of 119 Official leaderboard
Creative Writing v3 64.2 #73 of 120 Official leaderboard
RewardBench 2 64.7% #27 of 42 Official leaderboard
EQ-Bench 3 1,102 #52 of 78 Official leaderboard
SEAL Multilingual 992 #13 of 19 Official leaderboard
MultiLoKo 23.2% #5 of 7 Official leaderboard
WritingBench 53.8 #36 of 45 Official leaderboard

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
GSM8K 96.4% #4 of 92 Lab model card
GSM1k 96.6% #1 of 15 Official leaderboard
OlympicArena 39.2% #2 of 25 Official leaderboard
KOR-Bench 59% #3 of 33 Official leaderboard
ZebraLogic 33.4% #8 of 46 Official leaderboard
MATH 71.1% #44 of 99 Lab model card
ForecastBench 0.13 #40 of 82 Official leaderboard
MATH Level 5 51.7% #49 of 94 Epoch AI run
Omni-MATH 26.2% #5 of 9 Official leaderboard
GPQA Diamond 54% #149 of 229 Epoch AI run
DTBench 67.8% #120 of 180 Official leaderboard
GSM8K Platinum Initial 268 98.1% #14 of 19 Official leaderboard
SimpleBench 27.5% #86 of 106 Official leaderboard
3SAT-Search 12.9% #9 of 11 Official leaderboard
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 6.53% #175 of 212 Epoch AI run
FrontierMath Tier 4 0% #46 of 55 Epoch AI run
FrontierMath 2.07% #48 of 55 Official leaderboard
MATH-500 72.4% #35 of 38 Official leaderboard
AIME 2025 3.33% #53 of 53 Official leaderboard
HMMT 2025 1.67% #53 of 53 Official leaderboard

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
HumanEval 92% #9 of 101 Lab model card
Aider-Edit 77.4% #4 of 34 Official leaderboard
BigCodeBench 52.7% #9 of 69 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Lite 51.3% #2 of 15 Official leaderboard
SciCode 4.60% #3 of 18 Official leaderboard
MBPP+ 74.3% #6 of 35 Official leaderboard
BigCodeBench-Hard 30.4% #19 of 96 Official leaderboard
MBPP 89.4% #7 of 35 Official leaderboard
MHPP 45.2% #5 of 23 Official leaderboard
HumanEval+ 81.7% #11 of 46 Official leaderboard
GitTaskBench 40.7% #3 of 10 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench 24.9% #3 of 9 Official leaderboard
SEAL Coding 1,079 #9 of 26 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Verified 63.4% #26 of 60 Official leaderboard
Aider Polyglot 51.6% #21 of 46 Official leaderboard
METR Time Horizon 20 min #20 of 31 Official leaderboard
WeirdML 40% #77 of 112 Official leaderboard
METR Time Horizon 1.1 11 min #18 of 26 Official leaderboard
BIRD-CRITIC 21.5% #7 of 9 Official leaderboard
Spider 2.0 19% #18 of 23 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Multimodal 12.2% #8 of 9 Official leaderboard
MLE-bench 7.56% #11 of 12 Official leaderboard
Internal agentic coding evaluation (Anthropic) 64% #3 of 3 Lab model card

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
GroundUI 17.3% #3 of 11 Official leaderboard
BALROG 32.6% #12 of 33 Official leaderboard
GAIA 65.1% #24 of 64 Official leaderboard
CRMArena 41.8% #4 of 9 Official leaderboard
ToolComp 59.4% #17 of 32 Official leaderboard
AceBench 68.9% #9 of 16 Official leaderboard
LisanBench 365.3 #75 of 133 Official leaderboard
LLM Chess -134 #85 of 123 Official leaderboard
lmgame-Bench 13.5 #19 of 23 Official leaderboard
Online-Mind2Web 29% #5 of 5 Official leaderboard
tau-bench Airline 36% #2 of 2 Official leaderboard
tau-bench Retail 62.6% #2 of 2 Official leaderboard

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
MedQA 82.5% #4 of 71 Official leaderboard
MortgageTax 64.1% #45 of 87 Official leaderboard
MedXpertQA-MM 33.2% #6 of 9 Official leaderboard
TaxEval v2 70.2% #87 of 129 Official leaderboard
FailureSensorIQ 58.6% #17 of 24 Official leaderboard
CorpFin v2 53.6% #90 of 119 Official leaderboard

Vision, audio and robotics

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
SEED-Bench-2-Plus 71.7% #6 of 136 Official leaderboard
SGP-Bench 67.4% #1 of 22 Official leaderboard
CharXiv 60.2% #4 of 77 Official leaderboard
ChartQA 90.8% #2 of 37 Lab model card
AI2D 94.7% #4 of 52 Lab model card
CoreCognition 61.9% #14 of 119 Official leaderboard
MEGA-Bench 52.1% #3 of 22 Official leaderboard
DynaMath 64.8% #2 of 11 Official leaderboard
Image2Struct 73.7 #4 of 18 Official leaderboard
VCR (Visual Caption Restoration) 35.6% #10 of 42 Official leaderboard
MMStar 62.2% #46 of 173 Official leaderboard
DocVQA 95.2% #10 of 36 Lab model card
MMMU 68.3% #38 of 136 Official leaderboard
MicroVQA 51.7% #6 of 19 Official leaderboard
CCBench (MMBench Chinese Culture) 54.1% #53 of 152 Official leaderboard
VisualPuzzles 42.4% #11 of 29 Official leaderboard
MMBench 79.7% #59 of 155 Official leaderboard
MMBench-EN v1.1 77.7% #73 of 178 Official leaderboard
MMMU-Pro 51.5% #25 of 57 Official leaderboard
TOMATO 27.8% #11 of 22 Official leaderboard
MATH-Vision (MathVision) 38% #63 of 105 Official leaderboard
VHELM 48.2 #25 of 41 Official leaderboard
Video-MME 62.9% #17 of 26 Official leaderboard
VISTA 38.4% #36 of 54 Official leaderboard
GeoBench 62% #33 of 48 Official leaderboard
Vision Arena 1,146 #101 of 136 Official leaderboard
MathVista 67.7% #52 of 70 Lab model card
ZeroBench 2.00% #63 of 76 Official leaderboard
VPCT 33% #25 of 27 VPCT leaderboard, via Epoch AI

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
SimpleSafetyTests 100% #4 of 75 Official leaderboard
HELM Safety 97.7 #8 of 75 Official leaderboard
Situational Awareness Dataset (SAD) 57.1% #2 of 17 Official leaderboard
Anthropic Red Team 99.8% #9 of 75 Official leaderboard
XSTest 1.70% #2 of 16 Lab model card
AIR-Bench 2024 85.9% #11 of 82 Official leaderboard
FORTRESS 13% #10 of 73 Official leaderboard
NYU CTF Bench 22% #1 of 7 Official leaderboard
SORRY-Bench 14.3% #6 of 23 Official leaderboard
LAB-Bench CloningScenarios 28% #1 of 3 Official leaderboard
LAB-Bench FigQA 46% #1 of 3 Official leaderboard
WildChat toxic refusals (Anthropic) 96.4% #1 of 3 Lab model card
BaxBench 36% #12 of 34 Official leaderboard
Spiral-Bench v1.2 42.6 #9 of 21 Official leaderboard
Cybench 17.5% #7 of 16 Official leaderboard
OR-Bench 43.8% #13 of 28 Official leaderboard
BrowserART 22% #3 of 6 Official leaderboard
Harmlessness human feedback win rate (Anthropic) 52% #2 of 4 Lab model card
SEAL Adversarial Robustness 16.0 #5 of 8 Official leaderboard
LAB-Bench 35.1% #2 of 3 Official leaderboard
LAB-Bench ProtocolQA 48% #2 of 3 Official leaderboard
Human Pathogen Capabilities Test 42.7% #63 of 86 Official leaderboard
Spiral-Bench v1.0 47.7 #10 of 13 Official leaderboard
AgentDojo 33.9% #19 of 20 Official leaderboard
LAB-Bench LitQA2 6.00% #3 of 3 Official leaderboard
WildChat non-toxic incorrect refusals (Anthropic) 11% #3 of 3 Lab model card

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
HELM Lite 88.5 #4 of 71 Official leaderboard
OpenVLM Leaderboard 67.9 #45 of 173 Official leaderboard

Its lab's numbers put it at 132.0, 2.0 points above its ECI

The Self-Reported Index fits one score to the 14 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 129.3 to 134.6. How we compute it.

Its lab's numbers next to 4 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 67.2% GPQA (Diamond) (Maj@32 5-shot CoT) 54% Epoch AI run, Jun 2024 +13 pts
HumanEval 92% HumanEval (0-shot) 87.2% Leaderboard +4.8 pts
MathVista 67.7% MathVista (testmini) 67.7% Leaderboard Same
MMMU 68.3% MMMU (validation) 68.3% 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.