Benchmark Almanac

Claude Sonnet 4

Claude Sonnet 4 ranks first on 8 of the 205 benchmarks with five or more models scored.

Anthropic Released May 22nd, 2025 Compare with others
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Benchmarks with a score
8
Ranked first, out of five or more models
22
In the top three
Anthropic May 2025

Claude Sonnet 4

Closed weights

141.9 #112 of 256
Epoch Capabilities Index
Self-Reported Index 143.8 #144 of 404
  • Humanity's Last Exam 7.76% #36 /47
  • SWE-Bench Pro 42.7% #9 /24
  • MultiChallenge 57.1% #21 /42

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
Meeseeks Utility Rate 90.5% #1 of 10 Official leaderboard
MMLU-Pro 83.7% #38 of 212 Official leaderboard
AraGen 75.6% #8 of 42 Official leaderboard
LLM Confabulation Leaderboard 13.2% #13 of 58 Official leaderboard
Slop Score 27.3 #4 of 17 Official leaderboard
Video SimpleQA 35.6% #7 of 27 Official leaderboard
Judgemark v2.1 82.0 #11 of 42 Official leaderboard
SuperGPQA 57% #17 of 59 Official leaderboard
MMMLU 86.5% #23 of 71 Lab model card
FACTS Grounding 79.1% #13 of 34 Official leaderboard
LMArena (Elo) 1,402 #129 of 335 Official leaderboard
IFEval 84% #24 of 60 Official leaderboard
SnorkelSpatial 33.3% #11 of 27 Official leaderboard
WritingBench 74.1 #19 of 45 Official leaderboard
RewardBench 2 71.2% #18 of 42 Official leaderboard
EQ-Bench 3 1,304 #35 of 78 Official leaderboard
AMemGym 46.2% #5 of 11 Official leaderboard
ECLeKTic 18.5% #17 of 35 Official leaderboard
Global MMLU Lite 90.6% #21 of 43 Official leaderboard
MultiChallenge 57.1% #21 of 42 Official leaderboard
WideSearch 3.60% #3 of 6 Official leaderboard
FaithJudge 18.2% #19 of 37 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench 25.4% #56 of 107 Official leaderboard
Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard (HHEM) 4.50% #79 of 148 Official leaderboard
Longform Creative Writing (EQ-Bench) 58.4 #68 of 119 Official leaderboard
Creative Writing v3 65.4 #70 of 120 Official leaderboard
Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard (2025 dataset) 10.3% #61 of 104 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench V2 30% #78 of 129 Official leaderboard
FACTS Search 66.3% #19 of 31 Official leaderboard
HUMAINE 23 #34 of 50 Official leaderboard
FACTS Parametric 20.4% #34 of 45 Official leaderboard
Humanity's Last Exam 7.76% #36 of 47 Official leaderboard
Fiction.LiveBench 46.9% #45 of 57 Fiction.live leaderboard, via Epoch AI
MultiNRC 18.4% #30 of 38 Official leaderboard

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Misguided Attention 68.6% #2 of 45 Official leaderboard
GPQA Main 70.6% #10 of 60 Official leaderboard
CORE-Bench 46.7% #4 of 17 Official leaderboard
SnorkelSequences 70.4% #6 of 25 Official leaderboard
MATH Level 5 84.4% #23 of 94 Epoch AI run
SciArena 1,025 #13 of 34 Official leaderboard
HiPhO 58% #14 of 36 Official leaderboard
ForecastBench 0.13 #32 of 82 Official leaderboard
MATH-500 93.8% #15 of 38 Official leaderboard
GPQA Diamond 79.2% #99 of 229 Epoch AI run
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 71.1% #106 of 212 Epoch AI run
AIME 2025 85% #73 of 143 Lab model card
SnorkelGraph 58% #13 of 24 Official leaderboard
DTBench 77.1% #99 of 180 Official leaderboard
IneqMath 3.00% #20 of 34 Official leaderboard
SimpleBench 45.5% #68 of 106 Official leaderboard
PHYBench 19.2% #18 of 28 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI-2 5.93% #65 of 98 Official leaderboard
AstaBench 37.5% #9 of 13 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI 40% #72 of 95 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath 4.14% #44 of 55 Official leaderboard
IMO-ProofBench 4.80% #17 of 20 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tier 4 0% #50 of 55 Epoch AI run
CMT-Benchmark 6.00% #10 of 11 Official leaderboard

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
SWE-bench Verified 76.8% #3 of 60 Official leaderboard
SArena 0.92 #1 of 17 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Lite 60.3% #1 of 15 Official leaderboard
AutoCodeBench 51.1% #3 of 34 Official leaderboard
ArtifactsBench 57.3% #4 of 20 Official leaderboard
CATArena SWE-Perf-10 1.95× #1 of 5 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Multimodal 35.6% #2 of 9 Official leaderboard
CC-Bench 41.9% #1 of 4 Official leaderboard
Aider Polyglot 61.3% #13 of 46 Official leaderboard
METR Time Horizon 74 min #9 of 31 Official leaderboard
SWE-Bench Pro 42.7% #9 of 24 Official leaderboard
CATArena OIBench-5 0.31 #2 of 5 Official leaderboard
CATArena Texas Holdem 1,372 #2 of 5 Official leaderboard
WeirdML 46.1% #56 of 112 Official leaderboard
CodeClash 1,224 #4 of 8 Official leaderboard
ts-bench v1 92% #5 of 9 Official leaderboard
DesignArena 3D Design 1,122 #83 of 136 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Game Dev 1,129 #92 of 143 Official leaderboard
Time series forecasting task (Anthropic) 5.80 #6 of 9 Lab model card
BIRD-Interact 23.3% #2 of 3 Official leaderboard
METR data deduplication 27.6% #2 of 3 Lab model card
DesignArena Website 1,139 #104 of 151 Official leaderboard
IOI (Vals) 6.50% #38 of 55 Official leaderboard
GSO-Bench 4.90% #21 of 30 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Code 1,132 #102 of 143 Official leaderboard
LiveCodeBench 74.7% #15 of 21 Official leaderboard
LiveCodeBench v5 57.9% #15 of 21 Official leaderboard
LiveCodeBench v6 55.9% #15 of 21 Official leaderboard
Text-based reinforcement learning task (Anthropic) 0.68 #5 of 7 Lab model card
DesignArena UI Component 1,120 #100 of 139 Official leaderboard
LiveSQLBench 20% #26 of 36 Official leaderboard
ALE-Bench 1,088 #96 of 126 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Data Visualization 1,155 #90 of 118 Official leaderboard
DesignArena SVG 1,069 #79 of 103 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Verified (hard subset) 36.7% #7 of 9 Lab model card
CATArena Gomoku 868 #4 of 5 Official leaderboard
Internal AI research evaluation suite 2 0.36 #5 of 6 Lab model card
DAXBench v2 58.4% #47 of 47 Official leaderboard
SWE-Bench Pro Private 9.06% #12 of 12 Official leaderboard
Quadruped reinforcement learning task (Anthropic) 0.35 #8 of 8 Lab model card

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
C3-Bench 12.5% #1 of 30 Official leaderboard
tau-bench 70.3% #2 of 23 Lab model card
CompileBench 93.3% #2 of 20 Official leaderboard
WARC-Bench 64.8% #1 of 8 Official leaderboard
SnakeBench 32 #27 of 188 Official leaderboard
Meta Agents Research Environments (ARE) / Gaia2 37.8% #2 of 13 Official leaderboard
AgentBench FC 58.2% #2 of 12 Official leaderboard
Galileo Agent Leaderboard v2 55% #4 of 21 Official leaderboard
MCP-Universe 32.9% #6 of 30 Official leaderboard
MCP-Bench 0.68 #4 of 15 Official leaderboard
PinchBench 74% #14 of 48 Official leaderboard
LisanBench 2236.0 #42 of 133 Official leaderboard
Elimination Game 5 #18 of 56 Official leaderboard
OSWorld-MCP 45% #3 of 9 Official leaderboard
MCPMark 28.4% #10 of 28 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 41.3% #8 of 22 Lab model card
Step Race 3 #23 of 59 Official leaderboard
TextQuests 16.0 #11 of 28 Official leaderboard
lmgame-Bench 31.1 #10 of 23 Official leaderboard
GAIA 55.5% #31 of 64 Official leaderboard
LLM Chess 115 #60 of 123 Official leaderboard
OSWorld 43.9% #4 of 8 OS World Website, via Epoch AI
BrowseComp-Plus 36.8% #4 of 7 Official leaderboard
SnorkelWordle 83% #11 of 19 Official leaderboard
DeepResearch Bench 46.6% #13 of 22 evals.futuresearch.ai, via Epoch AI
OSWorld-Verified 43.9% #20 of 33 Official leaderboard
Deep Research Bench (FutureSearch) 0.47 #13 of 21 Official leaderboard
Toolathlon 29.9% #31 of 50 Official leaderboard
Research-Eval 44.8% #2 of 3 Official leaderboard
LiveResearchBench 62.3 #5 of 7 Official leaderboard
RuneBench 3.71 #62 of 76 Official leaderboard
PinchBench 2.0 48.8% #49 of 57 Official leaderboard

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
TheAgentCompany 33.1% #1 of 7 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Agent v1 44.5% #10 of 47 Official leaderboard
Finance Reasoning (Snorkel) 49.4% #5 of 21 Official leaderboard
SnorkelUnderwrite 72.3% #11 of 27 Official leaderboard
FinQA (Snorkel OpenEnv environment) 76.6% #9 of 22 Official leaderboard
SnorkelFinance 76.6% #9 of 22 Official leaderboard
LegalBench 83% #63 of 138 Official leaderboard
CorpFin v2 61.2% #56 of 119 Official leaderboard
TaxEval v2 72% #66 of 129 Official leaderboard
StockBench 7.00 #7 of 13 Official leaderboard
BizFinBench v2 39.5% #5 of 9 Official leaderboard
MortgageTax 62.5% #51 of 87 Official leaderboard
MedCode 35% #73 of 96 Official leaderboard
ProfBench 42.5% #55 of 72 Official leaderboard
MedScribe 72.4% #79 of 97 Official leaderboard
PLawBench 53.5% #9 of 11 Official leaderboard
TaxCalcBench 23% #16 of 17 Official leaderboard
OccuBench 53.4% #14 of 14 Official leaderboard

Vision, audio and robotics

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
MMMU 74.4% #24 of 136 Official leaderboard
VisualPuzzles 47.3% #7 of 29 Official leaderboard
MathCanvas-Bench 25% #5 of 16 Official leaderboard
MME-Reasoning 36.1% #4 of 11 Official leaderboard
VISTA 45.5% #25 of 54 Official leaderboard
Vision Arena 1,206 #76 of 136 Official leaderboard
ChartMuseum 52.6% #12 of 21 Official leaderboard
Math-VR 28.1% #15 of 26 Official leaderboard
ZeroBench 6.00% #48 of 76 Official leaderboard
MeasureBench Real-world 12.6% #12 of 19 Official leaderboard
MeasureBench Synthetic 11% #12 of 19 Official leaderboard
Blueprint-Bench 0.27 #7 of 8 Official leaderboard
VisFactor 17.4% #23 of 26 Official leaderboard
VPCT 34% #24 of 27 VPCT leaderboard, via Epoch AI
ClockBench 6.70% #34 of 37 Official leaderboard
GeoBench 37% #47 of 48 Official leaderboard

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
AIR-Bench 2024 88.3% #4 of 82 Official leaderboard
HELM Safety 98.1 #4 of 75 Official leaderboard
BaxBench 56.1% #2 of 34 Official leaderboard
AutoBaxBench 37.9% #2 of 11 Official leaderboard
nocot-bench (NCRI) 91.3 #35 of 185 Official leaderboard
SimpleSafetyTests 100% #15 of 75 Official leaderboard
Lakera B3 (Backbone Breaker Benchmark) 74.7% #7 of 35 Official leaderboard
Average in-eval reward hacking rate (Anthropic) 14.3% #1 of 5 Lab model card
ABC Bench Fragment Design 96% #6 of 27 Official leaderboard
Single-turn harmful request evaluations (Anthropic) 99% #6 of 19 Lab model card
FORTRESS 18.1% #26 of 73 Official leaderboard
Malicious use of Claude Code (Anthropic) 90% #7 of 17 Lab model card
Anthropic Red Team 99.2% #31 of 75 Official leaderboard
BBQ (Bias Benchmark for QA) 86.3% #11 of 25 Lab model card
Impossible tasks (Anthropic) 45% #5 of 11 Lab model card
Cybench 56.4% #9 of 18 Lab model card
HelpBench 82% #5 of 9 Official leaderboard
Molecular Biology Capabilities Test 46.4% #54 of 90 Official leaderboard
Reward-hack-prone coding tasks (Anthropic) 4.00% #5 of 8 Lab model card
Spiral-Bench v1.2 32.1 #14 of 21 Official leaderboard
Single-turn benign request evaluations (Anthropic) 0.23% #13 of 19 Lab model card
SusVibes 11.8% #7 of 10 Official leaderboard
SCONE-bench $331,500,000 #5 of 7 Official leaderboard
Human Pathogen Capabilities Test 42% #64 of 86 Official leaderboard
BinaryAudit 14% #15 of 20 Official leaderboard
Prompt injection robustness against adaptive attackers, browser use (Anthropic) 2.00% #3 of 4 Official leaderboard
CyberGym 22.6% #26 of 34 Official leaderboard
ABC Bench Liquid-Handling Robot 51.3% #28 of 34 Official leaderboard
Network CTF challenges (Anthropic) 25% #5 of 6 Lab model card
Rev CTF challenges (Anthropic) 37.5% #5 of 6 Lab model card
World-Class Bio 27% #65 of 74 Official leaderboard
Spiral-Bench v1.0 41.1 #12 of 13 Official leaderboard
ABC Bench Screening Evasion 39.2% #16 of 17 Official leaderboard
Creative biology 37% #7 of 7 Lab model card
Crypto CTF challenges (Anthropic) 31.8% #6 of 6 Lab model card
Pwn CTF challenges (Anthropic) 33.3% #6 of 6 Lab model card
Web CTF challenges (Anthropic) 73.3% #6 of 6 Lab model card
Computer use prompt injection evaluation (Anthropic) 69% #5 of 5 Lab model card
Bioweapons acquisition uplift trial (Anthropic) 1.70 #3 of 3 Lab model card
Bioweapons knowledge questions 51.5% #3 of 3 Lab model card

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
HELM Capabilities 76.6 #11 of 60 Official leaderboard
CAIS Risk Index 47.1 #27 of 67 Official leaderboard
Conceptual Reasoning Index 41.1 #98 of 151 Official leaderboard
LMCA 29% #96 of 147 Official leaderboard
ACCoRD 57.0 #100 of 152 Official leaderboard
SAGE (Vals) 35% #67 of 81 Official leaderboard
CAIS Text Capabilities Index 17.1 #57 of 68 Official leaderboard
CAIS Vision Capabilities Index 26.4 #53 of 53 Official leaderboard

Its lab's numbers put it at 143.8, 2.0 points above its ECI

The Self-Reported Index fits one score to the 8 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 140.5 to 147.2. 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 83.8% Graduate-level reasoning GPQA Diamond (parallel test-time compute) 79.2% Epoch AI run, 59K +4.6 pts
SWE-bench Verified 80.2% Agentic coding SWE-bench Verified (parallel test-time compute) 76.8% Leaderboard, EPAM AI/Run Developer Agent +3.4 pts
MMMU 74.4% Visual reasoning MMMU (validation) 74.4% 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. 42 of them aren't in the launch post.