Benchmark Almanac

Claude Sonnet 5

Claude Sonnet 5 ranks first on 3 of the 272 benchmarks with five or more models scored.

Anthropic Released June 30th, 2026 Family Claude 5 The lab's model card Compare with others
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Benchmarks with a score
3
Ranked first, out of five or more models
15
In the top three
Anthropic Jun 2026

Claude Sonnet 5

Closed weights Mid-size

156.9 #33 of 256
Epoch Capabilities Index
Self-Reported Index 156.3 #53 of 404
  • DeepSWE 53.9% #18 /28
  • AutomationBench 10.7% #28 /42
  • Terminal-Bench 4.0 12.4% #32 /41

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
Phare 78.1% #3 of 62 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench V2 80.8% #9 of 129 Official leaderboard
Humanity's Last Exam 57.4% #18 of 154 Lab model card
INCLUDE 86.5% #4 of 31 Lab model card
BullshitBench 65.5% #14 of 107 Official leaderboard
LMArena (Elo) 1,461 #50 of 335 Official leaderboard
Longform Creative Writing (EQ-Bench) 78.3 #20 of 119 Official leaderboard
Continual Learning Exam 40.2% #2 of 11 Official leaderboard
Creative Writing v3 76.3 #28 of 120 Official leaderboard
Structured Output Benchmark 86.2% #5 of 19 Official leaderboard
SEA-HELM 73.8 #21 of 71 Official leaderboard
OpenAI MRCR v2 52.2% #17 of 47 Official leaderboard
Judgemark v4 70.9 #15 of 40 Official leaderboard
StudyArena Text 1,242 #32 of 85 Official leaderboard
DesignArena ASCII Art 1,200 #30 of 77 Official leaderboard
Document Arena 1,469 #16 of 39 Official leaderboard
EQ-Bench 4 1,221 #14 of 32 Official leaderboard
Extended NYT Connections 75.1% #51 of 103 Official leaderboard
SimpleQA Verified 32.1% #28 of 56 Official leaderboard
AA-LCR Extended 61.8% #27 of 49 Official leaderboard
Global MMLU 89% #8 of 14 Lab model card
HLE Extended 29.1% #18 of 31 Official leaderboard
Corp Speak Arena 1,462 #14 of 22 Official leaderboard
ELI5 Arena 1,416 #14 of 18 Official leaderboard
MILU 89.3% #9 of 11 Lab model card
FACTS Parametric V2 20.5% #24 of 27 Official leaderboard
Joke Arena 1,418 #24 of 25 Official leaderboard

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
ProofBench 66% #7 of 59 Official leaderboard
GPQA Diamond 90.5% #45 of 229 Epoch AI run
DTBench 92.5% #36 of 180 Official leaderboard
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 94.7% #51 of 212 Epoch AI run
ProofBench v1.1 77% #17 of 52 Official leaderboard
SimpleBench 60.6% #41 of 106 Official leaderboard
Surface Evolver Bench 60% #10 of 25 Official leaderboard
Organic Chemistry (Anthropic) 81% #2 of 5 Lab model card
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 65.6% #36 of 86 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 29.3% #35 of 68 Official leaderboard
ForecastBench 0.14 #47 of 82 Official leaderboard
scBench (LatchBio SingleCellBench) 55.6% #15 of 26 Official leaderboard
LatchBio Capabilities v1.0 40.9% #16 of 27 Official leaderboard
Verifying the Verifiers (Project APE CRED benchmark) 77.5% #15 of 23 Official leaderboard
USAMO 2026 79.5% #4 of 6 Lab model card
SpatialBench (LatchBio) 70% #5 of 7 Lab model card
BTF-3 0.14 #6 of 8 Official leaderboard
ArXivMath 65.7% #8 of 9 Lab model card
Structural Biology (Anthropic) 69% #2 of 2 Lab model card

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
SWE-bench Verified 85.2% #6 of 155 Lab model card
SWE Atlas Codebase QnA Extended 32.7% #7 of 38 Official leaderboard
WeirdML 69% #22 of 112 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Game Dev 1,271 #35 of 144 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Website 1,268 #37 of 152 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Code 1,267 #36 of 144 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Verified Extended 67.3% #11 of 44 Official leaderboard
MirrorCode 63.3% #10 of 39 Epoch AI run
Vibe Code Bench 81.3% #31 of 120 Official leaderboard
SWE-Bench Pro 63.2% #21 of 81 Lab model card
SWE-bench Multilingual 78.3% #19 of 73 Lab model card
DesignArena Android (Kotlin) 1,211 #12 of 46 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Full Stack 1,222 #14 of 50 Official leaderboard
AndroidBench 76.2% #9 of 32 Official leaderboard
ALE-Bench 1,783 #37 of 126 Official leaderboard
Code Migration 44.4% #23 of 78 Official leaderboard
DesignArena UI Component 1,267 #42 of 140 Official leaderboard
GSO-Bench 37.3% #9 of 30 Official leaderboard
DesignArena 3D Design 1,237 #42 of 137 Official leaderboard
WebDev Arena 1,537 #34 of 105 arena.ai, via Epoch AI
GBAEval 65.3% #8 of 24 Official leaderboard
SWE-Bench Pro V2 Hard 88.2% #6 of 18 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Frontend Web App 1,217 #18 of 53 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Agentic Overall 1,216 #26 of 76 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Data Visualization 1,247 #42 of 119 Official leaderboard
APEX-SWE 46.4% #24 of 65 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Agentic Game Dev 1,166 #11 of 29 Official leaderboard
Code Arena 1,539 #49 of 128 Official leaderboard
DesignArena React Native 1,202 #22 of 57 Official leaderboard
Senior SWE-Bench 28% #9 of 23 Official leaderboard
DesignArena SVG 1,184 #47 of 105 Official leaderboard
SWE-rebench 56.8% #6 of 13 Official leaderboard
FrontierCode 1.1 42.7% #4 of 8 Official leaderboard
Quadruped reinforcement learning task (Anthropic) 19.9 #4 of 8 Lab model card
SWE Refactor Bench 15% #4 of 8 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Godot Game Dev 1,198 #13 of 24 Official leaderboard
Image-to-WebDev Arena 1,539 #31 of 55 Official leaderboard
ReactBench 32.3% #16 of 28 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Image to Frontend 1,182 #18 of 31 Official leaderboard
DeepSWE 53.9% #18 of 28 Official leaderboard
Landing Page Arena 1,423 #10 of 14 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Image to HTML 1,172 #37 of 51 Official leaderboard
DAXBench v2 70.4% #35 of 48 Official leaderboard
IOI v2 (Vals) 45% #33 of 45 Official leaderboard
FrontierCode 38.8% #3 of 4 Lab model card
Novel compiler task (Anthropic) 76.1% #3 of 4 Lab model card
Time series forecasting task (Anthropic) 5.80 #7 of 9 Lab model card
SWE-Bench Pro V2 93.2% #15 of 18 Official leaderboard
Vibe Code Bench 1-100 13.8% #22 of 26 Official leaderboard
MLS-Bench 31.4% #13 of 15 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Blender 990 #13 of 14 Official leaderboard
Next.js Agent Evals 82% #13 of 14 Official leaderboard
CursorBench 34.1% #20 of 21 cursor.com, via Epoch AI
CursorBench 4.0 34.1% #20 of 21 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Multimodal 28.1% #12 of 12 Lab model card
CursorBench 3.1 61.2% #5 of 5 Lab model card
τ^τ-bench 14.9% #5 of 5 Official leaderboard

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
LisanBench 5724.0 #21 of 133 Official leaderboard
OSWorld-Verified 81.2% #8 of 41 Lab model card
Long-Horizon-Terminal-Bench (LHTB) 49.7% #5 of 25 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Five in a Row 865 #4 of 20 Official leaderboard
BrowseComp 86.6% #17 of 81 Lab model card
Toolathlon 54.3% #7 of 29 Lab model card
LLM Chess 806 #31 of 123 Official leaderboard
Mystery Game Puzzles 35% #25 of 84 Epoch AI run
Toolathlon-Verified 71.6% #8 of 25 Official leaderboard
Chess Puzzles 45% #31 of 93 Epoch AI run
Game Arena Go 1,118 #13 of 39 Official leaderboard
DuetBench 1,022 #3 of 9 Official leaderboard
Era by Eon 67.7% #3 of 9 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Nine Men's Morris 750 #15 of 39 Official leaderboard
Agent Arena 2.00% #23 of 56 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Dots and Boxes 931 #17 of 40 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Checkers 954 #19 of 41 Official leaderboard
RuneBench 4.81 #36 of 76 Official leaderboard
CEO-Bench $64,459 #9 of 19 Official leaderboard
CLASHarness 20.8% #7 of 14 Official leaderboard
ApprenticeBench 16% #10 of 18 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Clobber 247 #23 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Four in a Row 322 #26 of 43 Official leaderboard
OSWorld-Science 26.3% #7 of 11 Official leaderboard
GameHorizon 64.7 #24 of 37 Official leaderboard
LMArena Search Arena 1,191 #24 of 37 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Dark Hex 206 #27 of 41 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 2.1 Extended 28.9% #29 of 44 Official leaderboard
AutomationBench 10.7% #28 of 42 Official leaderboard
BrowseComp Extended 19% #28 of 42 Official leaderboard
Kaggle Game Arena 260 #28 of 42 Official leaderboard
BabaIsBench 67% #22 of 32 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe 186 #27 of 39 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 2.1 74.6% #9 of 13 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Reversi 253 #28 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Poker -7.27 #23 of 31 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 4.0 12.4% #32 of 41 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Chess 587 #34 of 42 Official leaderboard
Learn2Play Bench 55.9 #9 of 11 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 3.0 14.6% #9 of 11 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Coin Game 237 #32 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Lines of Action 222 #32 of 39 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 4.1 12.1% #39 of 46 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Word Art 146 #34 of 39 Official leaderboard
CAR-bench 43.3% #11 of 12 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Bargaining 82 #37 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Word Association 25 #38 of 40 Official leaderboard

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
ProfBench 60.4% #3 of 72 Official leaderboard
MortgageTax 70% #4 of 87 Official leaderboard
TaxEval v2 75.6% #15 of 129 Official leaderboard
CorpFin v2 67% #15 of 119 Official leaderboard
RCM-Bench-1 91.2% #4 of 22 Official leaderboard
Vals Index v2 59.6% #14 of 65 Official leaderboard
LMBuild 62.5% #5 of 18 Official leaderboard
Excel Modeling Benchmark 66.3% #22 of 76 Official leaderboard
Legal Research Bench 41.8% #30 of 93 Official leaderboard
LegalBench 83.9% #46 of 138 Official leaderboard
MedCode 47.5% #32 of 96 Official leaderboard
Vending-Bench 2 $6,378 #25 of 69 Official leaderboard
DesignArena PDF 1,211 #14 of 38 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Agent v2 53.9% #30 of 80 Official leaderboard
PatientAgentBench 4.20 #3 of 8 Official leaderboard
DesignArena HTML Slides 1,112 #11 of 28 Official leaderboard
Public Benefits Bench 66% #20 of 50 Official leaderboard
GDPval-AA v2 1,618 #11 of 27 Lab model card
EnterpriseBench: CoreCraft 51.3% #21 of 51 Official leaderboard
CHI-Bench 20% #10 of 23 Official leaderboard
Tax Agent Bench 29.4% #37 of 84 Official leaderboard
APEX-Agents 54.5% #27 of 61 Collected by Epoch AI, source not named
HealthBench 58.7% #14 of 31 Lab model card
DesignArena Python-PPTX Slides 1,180 #17 of 36 Official leaderboard
YC-Bench $1,163,518 #28 of 59 Official leaderboard
Harvey LAB (Legal Agent Benchmark) 5.00% #38 of 80 Official leaderboard
GDPval Extended 1.10% #21 of 43 Official leaderboard
Vals Index v2.1 51.9% #24 of 49 Official leaderboard
APEX-Agents 1.1 67.4% #32 of 65 Official leaderboard
LifeSci Diamond 1.80% #10 of 18 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Spreadsheet 1,046 #22 of 39 Official leaderboard
Tuesday Work Index 46.1 #25 of 44 Official leaderboard
DAYJOB: Healthcare 2.80% #22 of 37 Official leaderboard
OfficeQA 73.3% #9 of 14 Lab model card
TRLawBench 8.92 #22 of 34 Official leaderboard
DAYJOB: Finance 4.50% #26 of 39 Official leaderboard
Holdings-IndividualTaxBench 71.5% #9 of 13 Official leaderboard
APEX-Accounting 55.7% #34 of 49 Official leaderboard
GDP.xlsx 16.9% #14 of 20 Official leaderboard
AA-Briefcase 1,393 #5 of 7 Lab model card
HealthBench Professional 57.8% #19 of 26 Lab model card
MedScribe 76% #71 of 97 Official leaderboard
RealmPathology 71.7% #10 of 13 Official leaderboard
EEBench 40.3% #24 of 31 Official leaderboard
TaxCalcBench v2 6.00% #28 of 34 Official leaderboard
OfficeQA Pro 59.4% #14 of 16 Lab model card
MedXpertQA MM Extended 43.8% #38 of 41 Official leaderboard
APEX-1 49.6% #68 of 71 Official leaderboard
PolicyBench 72.3% #49 of 51 Official leaderboard
BenchCAD 26.6% #11 of 11 Lab model card
Real-World Finance v2 (Anthropic) 1,219 #3 of 3 Lab model card

Vision, audio and robotics

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
GeoGuesser environment (FineEnvs) 0.64 #1 of 14 Official leaderboard
GDP.pdf 67.5% #3 of 17 Lab model card
Vision Arena 1,261 #38 of 136 Official leaderboard
MineBench 1,611 #30 of 75 Official leaderboard
ChartMuseum 70.1% #2 of 5 Lab model card
vCX Benchmark 87.5% #18 of 42 Official leaderboard
ZeroBench 13% #33 of 76 Official leaderboard
GeoBench 74% #22 of 48 Official leaderboard
CharXiv 77% #46 of 75 Lab model card
BVB 64.6 #29 of 47 Official leaderboard
ParseBench 61.2% #28 of 45 Official leaderboard
Chartography 16.6% #28 of 43 Official leaderboard
VoxelBench 1,546 #37 of 56 Official leaderboard
ArtifactArena 986 #14 of 21 Official leaderboard
Blueprint-Bench 2 24.9% #28 of 38 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Code to Video 1,102 #23 of 31 Official leaderboard
Humanity's Sixth Sense 24.8% #28 of 34 Official leaderboard
RoTA-Bench 0% #7 of 8 Official leaderboard
CharXiv Extended 71.1% #34 of 38 Official leaderboard
MMMU-Pro Extended 20.7% #36 of 38 Official leaderboard

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
BioTIER Refuse 96.1% #4 of 69 Official leaderboard
Molecular Biology Capabilities Test 59.2% #9 of 90 Official leaderboard
Human Pathogen Capabilities Test 66.5% #12 of 86 Official leaderboard
MASK 96.9% #3 of 19 Lab model card
BrowseSafe-Adapt 30.7% #1 of 6 Official leaderboard
LinuxArena 0% #1 of 6 Lab model card
Malicious use of Claude Code (Anthropic) 92.4% #3 of 17 Lab model card
nocot-bench (NCRI) 90.8 #36 of 185 Official leaderboard
Human Pathogen Capabilities Test v2 (HPCT v2) 65% #14 of 71 Official leaderboard
BrowseSafe++ 88.4% #5 of 15 Official leaderboard
Protocols (Anthropic life sciences) 62% #1 of 3 Lab model card
MetagenomicsBench 42.3% #9 of 26 Official leaderboard
Gray Swan Agent Red Teaming (ART) benchmark 0.10% #5 of 14 Lab model card
Dictatorship Eval 83.5% #8 of 20 Official leaderboard
VariantBench 39.8% #11 of 27 Official leaderboard
Prompt injection robustness against adaptive attackers, coding (Anthropic) 0.31% #6 of 14 Lab model card
World-Class Bio 49% #32 of 74 Official leaderboard
SHADE-Arena 10% #7 of 16 Lab model card
DrugDiscoveryBench 50% #10 of 21 Official leaderboard
TxBench-Oligo-Discovery 36.6% #16 of 30 Official leaderboard
BioSecBench-Function 33.8% #16 of 27 Official leaderboard
scBench-Long 15.9% #16 of 27 Official leaderboard
Prompt injection robustness against adaptive attackers, browser use (Anthropic) 0.93% #8 of 13 Lab model card
EpiBench 21.7% #17 of 27 Official leaderboard
TxBench-Preclinical-Pharmacology 49.3% #19 of 30 Official leaderboard
Gray Swan IPI Arena benchmark 0.60% #7 of 11 Lab model card
OncologyBench 14.7% #20 of 30 Official leaderboard
Anthropic automated behavioral audit 2.53 #4 of 6 Lab model card
Prompt injection live bug bounty (Anthropic with Gray Swan) 0.19% #2 of 3 Lab model card
SpatialBench-Long 24.4% #19 of 27 Official leaderboard
Anthropic political even-handedness eval 96.4% #10 of 14 Lab model card
Malicious computer use (Anthropic) 84.7% #10 of 14 Lab model card
DistressBench 68% #31 of 43 Official leaderboard
DeepsecBench 14.9 #21 of 29 Official leaderboard
CyberBench v1.1 (Vals) 61.9% #32 of 44 Official leaderboard
Single-turn harmful request evaluations (Anthropic) 96.7% #14 of 19 Lab model card
BioSecBench-Surveillance 39% #21 of 27 Official leaderboard
Prompt injection robustness against adaptive attackers, computer use (Anthropic) 2.25% #11 of 14 Lab model card
TxBench-Antibody-Discovery 32% #24 of 30 Official leaderboard
BBQ (Bias Benchmark for QA) 72.4% #20 of 25 Lab model card
DNA Synthesis Screening Evasion 50% #4 of 5 Lab model card
Firefox 147 exploit evaluation (Anthropic) 13.2% #4 of 5 Lab model card
Virology Capabilities Test (VCT) 45% #25 of 31 Lab model card
Anthropic undermining liberal democracy (behavioral audit metric) 1.22 #5 of 6 Lab model card
Binary Exploitation Benchmark (Anthropic, OSS-Fuzz based) 54.5% #5 of 6 Lab model card
SecIT Bench 65.9% #22 of 26 Official leaderboard
CyberGym 52.7% #29 of 34 Lab model card
SRE-Bench 0.38% #30 of 35 Official leaderboard
Single-turn benign request evaluations (Anthropic) 0.59% #18 of 19 Lab model card
ExploitBench 31% #20 of 21 Lab model card
BioTIER Permit 78.3% #66 of 69 Official leaderboard
Uncritically reporting flawed results (Anthropic) 8.60 #3 of 3 Lab model card

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Political Science LLM Benchmark 69.7% #3 of 42 Official leaderboard
ACCoRD 76.9 #25 of 152 Official leaderboard
LMCA 50% #29 of 147 Official leaderboard
Conceptual Reasoning Index 61.8 #33 of 151 Official leaderboard
Vals Multimodal Index 68.8% #8 of 33 Official leaderboard
SAGE (Vals) 48.9% #24 of 81 Official leaderboard

Its lab's numbers put it at 156.3, in line with its ECI

The Self-Reported Index fits one score to the 22 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 152.5 to 160.1. 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
Terminal-Bench 2.1 80.4% Agentic coding Terminal-Bench 2.1 74.6% Leaderboard, high, Claude Code +5.8 pts
Harvey LAB (Legal Agent Benchmark) 8.90% Best of Legal Agent Benchmark Full Public Set / Legal Agent Benchmark Harvey's Held-Out Set 5.00% Leaderboard +3.9 pts
AutomationBench 13.5% AutomationBench 10.7% Leaderboard, max +2.8 pts
scBench (LatchBio SingleCellBench) 56% LatchBio SingleCellBench, 195 problems, score 0.56 (8.14.2, Figure 8.14.6.A) 55.6% Leaderboard, published v1, Pi +0.4 pts

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. 67 of them aren't in the launch post.

Hallucination