Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs GPT-4 Turbo

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.6 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 33 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic

34.6

Rank #231 Confirmed

GPT-4 Turbo OpenAI

30.5

Rank #292 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 33 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 8 categories and GPT-4 Turbo in 1 category; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads 19.2 to 9.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is WeirdML: 40% for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and 18% for GPT-4 Turbo.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4 Turbo specifications
Claude 3.5 SonnetGPT-4 Turbo
ProviderAnthropicOpenAI
Noometry Index34.630.5
Released2024-06-202023-11-06
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$10
Output $ / M tokens—$30
Results tracked6036

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.0 (#165), GPT-4 Turbo: 33.8 (#249)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGPT-4 Turbo
WeirdML40%18%
BigCodeBench Instruct46.8%48.2%
LMArena Coding13421268
BigCodeBench Complete58.6%58.2%
HumanEval+81.7%86.6%
MBPP+74.3%73.3%
Aider Polyglot51.6%—
GSO4.6%—
LiveBench Coding67.1%—
CadEval48%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.3 (#67), GPT-4 Turbo: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGPT-4 Turbo
METR Time Horizons45.2%36.7%
TheAgentCompany24%—
Cybench17.5%—
BALROG32.6%—

Reasoning Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 23.1 (#183), GPT-4 Turbo: 15.3 (#317)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGPT-4 Turbo
SimpleBench41.4%25.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts13051251
DTBench67.8%61.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index133.55127.25
ForecastBench60.759.4
Chess Puzzles—6%
EnigmaEval0.9%—
LiveBench Reasoning56.7%—
LiveBench Data Analysis55%—
LMCA—9.8%
LiveBench59%—

Math Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 19.2 (#288), GPT-4 Turbo: 9.0 (#322)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGPT-4 Turbo
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20258.5%6.7%
LMArena Math13071272
MATH Level 556.9%46.7%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—0.7%
Omni-MATH27.6%—
LiveBench Math52.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)2.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.6 (#245), GPT-4 Turbo: 24.3 (#268)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGPT-4 Turbo
GPQA Diamond55.3%46.6%
Confabulations19.9%28.4%
LMArena Expert12651223
MMLU87.3%81.3%
Humanity's Last Exam4.1%—
MMLU-Pro77.7%—
GPQA (HELM)56.5%—

Multimodal GPT-4 Turbo leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.5 (#120), GPT-4 Turbo: 30.6 (#110)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Vision11251090
Video-MME60%—
GeoBench62%—
VPCT33%—

Multilingual Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.2 (#185), GPT-4 Turbo: 40.5 (#216)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Non-English12831245
LMArena Chinese12721242
LMArena French13051276
LMArena German12971259
LMArena Japanese12341194
LMArena Korean12001187
LMArena Russian13061259
LMArena Spanish12901260

Instruction Following Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 68.8 (#182), GPT-4 Turbo: 65.8 (#216)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Instruction Following12971249
LiveBench Instruction Following69.3%—
IFEval85.5%—

Long Context Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#167), GPT-4 Turbo: 38.0 (#206)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Longer Query13111254

Writing & Preference Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 52.9 (#164), GPT-4 Turbo: 47.7 (#206)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Text12981272
LMArena Creative Writing12921269
LMArena Multi-Turn13261267
Short-Story Creative Writing80.3%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1451—
WildBench79.2%—
LiveBench Language53.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than GPT-4 Turbo?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.6 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or GPT-4 Turbo better for coding?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.0 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4 Turbo share?

33 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4 Turbo has 36.

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