Model comparison
Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs o1-mini
Claude 3.5 Sonnet and o1-mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (34.6 vs 34.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 37 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 37 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 5 categories and o1-mini in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where o1-mini leads 35.4 to 19.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 8.5% for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and 46.9% for o1-mini.
Side by side
| Claude 3.5 Sonnet | o1-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 34.6 | 34.0 |
| Released | 2024-06-20 | 2024-09-12 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 60 | 39 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.0 (#165), o1-mini: 35.5 (#224)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 51.6% | 32.9% |
| WeirdML | 40% | 36.3% |
| LiveBench Coding | 67.1% | 48% |
| LMArena Coding | 1342 | 1362 |
| HumanEval+ | 81.7% | 89% |
| MBPP+ | 74.3% | 78.8% |
| GSO | 4.6% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 58.6% | — |
| CadEval | 48% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.3 (#67), o1-mini: 24.6 (#118)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 17.5% | 10% |
| TheAgentCompany | 24% | — |
| BALROG | 32.6% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 45.2% | — |
Reasoning Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 23.1 (#183), o1-mini: 8.8 (#346)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | 41.4% | 18.1% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 56.7% | 72.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1305 | 1333 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 55% | 57.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.55 | 135.82 |
| LiveBench | 59% | 57.8% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0.8% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 14% |
| EnigmaEval | 0.9% | — |
| DTBench | 67.8% | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.7 | — |
Math o1-mini leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 19.2 (#288), o1-mini: 35.4 (#186)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 8.5% | 46.9% |
| LiveBench Math | 52.3% | 62% |
| LMArena Math | 1307 | 1358 |
| MATH Level 5 | 56.9% | 89.2% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 2.1% | 1.7% |
| Omni-MATH | 27.6% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |
Knowledge o1-mini leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.6 (#245), o1-mini: 34.9 (#192)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 55.3% | 62.4% |
| Confabulations | 19.9% | 18.6% |
| LMArena Expert | 1265 | 1316 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 77.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 56.5% | — |
| MMLU | 87.3% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.5 (#120), o1-mini: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1125 | — |
| Video-MME | 60% | — |
| GeoBench | 62% | — |
| VPCT | 33% | — |
Multilingual Too close to call
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.2 (#185), o1-mini: 43.6 (#182)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1283 | 1289 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1272 | 1314 |
| LMArena French | 1305 | 1293 |
| LMArena German | 1297 | 1278 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1234 | 1245 |
| LMArena Korean | 1200 | 1223 |
| LMArena Russian | 1306 | 1283 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1290 | 1303 |
Instruction Following Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 68.8 (#182), o1-mini: 66.7 (#206)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 69.3% | 65.4% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1297 | 1304 |
| IFEval | 85.5% | — |
Long Context Too close to call
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#167), o1-mini: 40.1 (#161)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1311 | 1320 |
Writing & Preference Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 52.9 (#164), o1-mini: 48.4 (#202)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1298 | 1317 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1292 | 1244 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 80.3% | 64.9% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1326 | 1314 |
| LiveBench Language | 53.8% | 40.9% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1451 | — |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than o1-mini?
Claude 3.5 Sonnet and o1-mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (34.6 vs 34.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or o1-mini better for coding?
Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.0 versus 35.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and o1-mini share?
37 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and o1-mini has 39.