Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs GPT-5.2 Pro

GPT-5.2 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.2 to 34.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic

34.4

Rank #225 Confirmed

GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI

52.2

Rank #34 Reported

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.2 Pro in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.2 Pro leads 64.8 to 18.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SimpleBench: 41.4% for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and 57.4% for GPT-5.2 Pro.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-5.2 Pro specifications
Claude 3.5 SonnetGPT-5.2 Pro
ProviderAnthropicOpenAI
Noometry Index34.452.2
Released2024-06-202025-12-11
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—400K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$21
Output $ / M tokens—$168
Results tracked608

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.5 (#145), GPT-5.2 Pro: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGPT-5.2 Pro
Aider Polyglot51.6%—
GSO4.6%—
WeirdML40%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46.8%—
LiveBench Coding67.1%—
LMArena Coding1343—
BigCodeBench Complete58.6%—
CadEval48%—
HumanEval+81.7%—
MBPP+74.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.1 (#61), GPT-5.2 Pro: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGPT-5.2 Pro
TheAgentCompany24%—
Cybench17.5%—
BALROG32.6%—
METR Time Horizons45.2%—

Reasoning GPT-5.2 Pro leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 22.5 (#176), GPT-5.2 Pro: 51.8 (#31)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGPT-5.2 Pro
SimpleBench41.4%57.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index133.55155.41
ARC-AGI-2—54.2%
NYT Connections (extended)—79.3%
ARC-AGI-1—90.5%
EnigmaEval0.9%—
LiveBench Reasoning56.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1305—
DTBench67.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis55%—
ForecastBench60.7—
LiveBench59%—

Math GPT-5.2 Pro leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 18.0 (#282), GPT-5.2 Pro: 64.8 (#23)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGPT-5.2 Pro
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%31.3%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—74%
FrontierMath Tier 4—46%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20258.5%—
Omni-MATH27.6%—
LiveBench Math52.3%—
LMArena Math1306—
MATH Level 556.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)2.1%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.5 (#236), GPT-5.2 Pro: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGPT-5.2 Pro
GPQA Diamond55.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam4.1%—
MMLU-Pro77.7%—
Confabulations19.9%—
GPQA (HELM)56.5%—
LMArena Expert1264—
MMLU87.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.0 (#115), GPT-5.2 Pro: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGPT-5.2 Pro
LMArena Vision1125—
Video-MME60%—
GeoBench62%—
VPCT33%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.4 (#180), GPT-5.2 Pro: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGPT-5.2 Pro
LMArena Non-English1283—
LMArena Chinese1271—
LMArena French1304—
LMArena German1297—
LMArena Japanese1234—
LMArena Korean1200—
LMArena Russian1305—
LMArena Spanish1289—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 69.0 (#177), GPT-5.2 Pro: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGPT-5.2 Pro
LiveBench Instruction Following69.3%—
IFEval85.5%—
LMArena Instruction Following1297—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#162), GPT-5.2 Pro: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGPT-5.2 Pro
LMArena Longer Query1311—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 53.0 (#159), GPT-5.2 Pro: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGPT-5.2 Pro
LMArena Text1298—
LMArena Creative Writing1292—
Short-Story Creative Writing80.3%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1451—
WildBench79.2%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1326—
LiveBench Language53.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than GPT-5.2 Pro?

GPT-5.2 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.2 to 34.4 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-5.2 Pro share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.2 Pro has 8.

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