Benchmark Almanac

Claude 3 Sonnet

Claude 3 Sonnet ranks first on Honesty human feedback win rate (Anthropic).

Anthropic Released February 29th, 2024 Compare with others
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Benchmarks with a score
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Ranked first, out of five or more models
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In the top three
Anthropic Feb 2024

Claude 3 Sonnet

Closed weights

119.5 #186 of 256
Epoch Capabilities Index
Self-Reported Index 118.5 #354 of 404
  • ZeroBench 1.00% #69 /76
  • GPQA Diamond 40.6% #184 /229
  • IHEval 30.7% #5 /10

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
Honesty human feedback win rate (Anthropic) 69% #1 of 6 Lab model card
HellaSwag 89% #10 of 53 Lab model card
ARC-Challenge 93.2% #11 of 49 Lab model card
RepoQA 87.4% #5 of 22 Official leaderboard
TurkishMMLU 67.3% #2 of 8 Official leaderboard
AlpacaEval 2.0 34.9% #12 of 47 Official leaderboard
EQ-Bench v2 80.5 #23 of 85 Official leaderboard
RACE-H 88.8% #2 of 7 Lab model card
ThaiExam 57.9% #9 of 24 Official leaderboard
BIG-Bench Hard 82.9% #30 of 73 Lab model card
WildBench 45.2 #20 of 47 Official leaderboard
QuALITY 85.9% #3 of 7 Lab model card
MixEval 81.7% #15 of 34 Official leaderboard
Arena-Hard-Auto 46.8% #19 of 38 Official leaderboard
MGSM 83.5% #29 of 57 Lab model card
MMLU 81.5% #68 of 131 Lab model card
MMLU-Pro 56.8% #119 of 212 Official leaderboard
WinoGrande 75.1% #31 of 47 Lab model card
Summary of a Haystack 41.2% #2 of 3 Official leaderboard
RewardBench 74.6% #34 of 48 Official leaderboard
LMArena (Elo) 1,281 #246 of 335 Official leaderboard
MMBench-CN v1.1 63.5% #132 of 178 Official leaderboard
Okapi MMLU 69% #6 of 8 Lab model card
LSAT 158.3 #3 of 4 Lab model card
AlignBench 6.71 #6 of 7 Official leaderboard
Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard (HHEM) 16.3% #142 of 148 Official leaderboard
Needle In A Haystack 95.4% #9 of 9 Lab model card

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
GSM8K 92.3% #30 of 92 Lab model card
OlympicArena 25.5% #10 of 25 Official leaderboard
ZebraLogic 18.7% #22 of 46 Official leaderboard
GSM1k 93.3% #8 of 15 Official leaderboard
AMC 8 2023 54.0 #2 of 3 Lab model card
GPQA Extended 38% #2 of 3 Lab model card
GPQA Main 38.5% #5 of 7 Lab model card
GPQA Diamond 40.6% #184 of 229 Epoch AI run
MATH 40.5% #81 of 99 Lab model card
MATH Level 5 18.2% #78 of 94 Epoch AI run
DTBench 53.6% #155 of 180 Official leaderboard
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 2.50% #192 of 212 Epoch AI run
AMC 10 2023 24.0 #3 of 3 Lab model card
AMC 12 2023 27.0 #3 of 3 Lab model card

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
MBPP 79.4% #24 of 71 Lab model card
MBPP+ 69.3% #14 of 35 Official leaderboard
NaturalCodeBench 38.9% #2 of 5 Official leaderboard
BigCodeBench 48.3% #28 of 69 Official leaderboard
HumanEval+ 64% #23 of 46 Official leaderboard
SciCode 1.50% #9 of 18 Official leaderboard
BigCodeBench-Hard 23.4% #52 of 96 Official leaderboard
APPS 55.9% #2 of 3 Lab model card
HumanEval 73% #68 of 101 Lab model card
Aider-Edit 54.9% #28 of 34 Official leaderboard
SEAL Coding 879 #22 of 26 Official leaderboard
WeirdML 10.2% #110 of 112 Official leaderboard
USACO 2.61% #1 of 1 Official leaderboard

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
ToolComp 54.2% #19 of 32 Official leaderboard
LLM Chess -322 #103 of 123 Official leaderboard
CRMArena 17.3% #8 of 9 Official leaderboard
LLM Colosseum 1,315 #3 of 3 Official leaderboard

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
PubMedQA 78.3% #1 of 3 Lab model card
MedQA 68.4% #30 of 71 Official leaderboard
MBE (Multistate Bar Examination) 71% #3 of 4 Lab model card

Vision, audio and robotics

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
CharXiv (DQ) 73.7% #20 of 67 Official leaderboard
WildVision Arena 1,044 #3 of 10 Official leaderboard
WildVision 50.0 #5 of 14 Official leaderboard
SGP-Bench 56.5% #8 of 22 Official leaderboard
AI2D 88.7% #25 of 52 Lab model card
Image2Struct 49.1 #9 of 18 Official leaderboard
MM-Vet 51.7% #83 of 164 Official leaderboard
CharXiv 32.2% #39 of 77 Official leaderboard
MMMU 53.1% #76 of 136 Official leaderboard
MTVQA-Test 21.1% #11 of 18 Official leaderboard
CoreCognition 52.5% #77 of 119 Official leaderboard
MMStar 44.2% #129 of 173 Official leaderboard
CCBench (MMBench Chinese Culture) 27.8% #119 of 152 Official leaderboard
MMBench 67.8% #122 of 155 Official leaderboard
VHELM 29.8 #33 of 41 Official leaderboard
DocVQA 89.5% #29 of 36 Lab model card
ChartQA 81.1% #30 of 37 Lab model card
MMBench-EN v1.1 64.2% #149 of 178 Official leaderboard
ZeroBench 1.00% #69 of 76 Official leaderboard
Vision Arena 1,017 #127 of 136 Official leaderboard
MathVista 47.9% #68 of 70 Lab model card
SEED-Bench-2-Plus 27.1% #134 of 136 Official leaderboard

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
SimpleSafetyTests 100% #2 of 75 Official leaderboard
Anthropic Red Team 99.8% #7 of 75 Official leaderboard
AIR-Bench 2024 84.7% #14 of 82 Official leaderboard
SORRY-Bench 10.7% #5 of 23 Official leaderboard
Harmlessness human feedback win rate (Anthropic) 87% #1 of 4 Lab model card
HELM Safety 94.3 #27 of 75 Official leaderboard
Situational Awareness Dataset (SAD) 50% #7 of 17 Official leaderboard
IHEval 30.7% #5 of 10 Official leaderboard
Multimodal policy red-teaming (Anthropic) 99.2% #1 of 2 Lab model card
AgentDojo 26.7% #15 of 20 Official leaderboard
PrivacyLens 37.3% #3 of 4 Official leaderboard
AgentHarm 20.7% #7 of 8 Official leaderboard
OR-Bench 94.5% #25 of 28 Official leaderboard

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
OpenVLM Leaderboard 53.5 #114 of 173 Official leaderboard
HELM Lite 37.6 #52 of 71 Official leaderboard

Its lab's numbers put it at 118.5, in line with its ECI

The Self-Reported Index fits one score to the 18 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 115.9 to 121.0. How we compute it.

Its lab's numbers next to 5 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
MBPP 79.4% MBPP, Pass@1 (Table 1) 83.6% Leaderboard, EvalPlus subset, original tests −4.2 pts
HumanEval 73% HumanEval, 0-shot (Table 1) 70.7% Leaderboard +2.3 pts
GPQA Diamond 40.4% GPQA (Diamond), 0-shot CoT, mean of 10 rollouts. 5-shot CoT 42.9, Maj@32 5-shot CoT 46.3 (Table 1, Table 8) 40.6% Epoch AI run −0.2 pts
MathVista 47.9% MathVista (testmini), 0-shot CoT (Table 3) 47.9% Leaderboard Same
MMMU 53.1% MMMU (val), Overall, 0-shot. Per-discipline values also given (Table 3) 53.1% 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 system card

Every result in the longer documents the lab published with it. 41 of them aren't in the launch post.