Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs GPT-5 Pro

GPT-5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.4 to 34.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic

34.6

Rank #231 Confirmed

GPT-5 Pro OpenAI

46.4

Rank #64 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5 Pro in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5 Pro leads 48.5 to 19.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Humanity's Last Exam: 4.1% for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and 31.6% for GPT-5 Pro.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-5 Pro specifications
Claude 3.5 SonnetGPT-5 Pro
ProviderAnthropicOpenAI
Noometry Index34.646.4
Released2024-06-202025-10-06
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—400K
Max output—272K
Input $ / M tokens—$15
Output $ / M tokens—$120
Results tracked6012

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 Pro leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.0 (#165), GPT-5 Pro: 44.0 (#80)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGPT-5 Pro
WeirdML40%60.4%
Aider Polyglot51.6%—
GSO4.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46.8%—
LiveBench Coding67.1%—
LMArena Coding1342—
BigCodeBench Complete58.6%—
CadEval48%—
AlgoTune—1.31
HumanEval+81.7%—
MBPP+74.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.3 (#67), GPT-5 Pro: —

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

Reasoning GPT-5 Pro leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 23.1 (#183), GPT-5 Pro: 38.9 (#62)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGPT-5 Pro
SimpleBench41.4%61.6%
EnigmaEval0.9%18.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index133.55150.28
ARC-AGI-2—18.3%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—76.8%
ARC-AGI-1—70.2%
LiveBench Reasoning56.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1305—
DTBench67.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis55%—
ForecastBench60.7—
LiveBench59%—

Math GPT-5 Pro leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 19.2 (#288), GPT-5 Pro: 48.5 (#63)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGPT-5 Pro
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%14.6%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—55.8%
FrontierMath Tier 4—19.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20258.5%—
Omni-MATH27.6%—
LiveBench Math52.3%—
LMArena Math1307—
MATH Level 556.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)2.1%—

Knowledge GPT-5 Pro leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.6 (#245), GPT-5 Pro: 56.7 (#42)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGPT-5 Pro
Humanity's Last Exam4.1%31.6%
GPQA Diamond55.3%—
MMLU-Pro77.7%—
Confabulations19.9%—
GPQA (HELM)56.5%—
LMArena Expert1265—
MMLU87.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.5 (#120), GPT-5 Pro: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGPT-5 Pro
LMArena Vision1125—
Video-MME60%—
GeoBench62%—
VPCT33%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.2 (#185), GPT-5 Pro: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGPT-5 Pro
LMArena Non-English1283—
LMArena Chinese1272—
LMArena French1305—
LMArena German1297—
LMArena Japanese1234—
LMArena Korean1200—
LMArena Russian1306—
LMArena Spanish1290—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 68.8 (#182), GPT-5 Pro: —

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

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#167), GPT-5 Pro: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGPT-5 Pro
LMArena Longer Query1311—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 52.9 (#164), GPT-5 Pro: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGPT-5 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 Pro?

GPT-5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.4 to 34.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or GPT-5 Pro better for coding?

GPT-5 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 39.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-5 Pro share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5 Pro has 12.

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