Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs o3-pro

o3-pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 34.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic

34.6

Rank #231 Confirmed

o3-pro OpenAI

42.9

Rank #105 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 0 categories and o3-pro in 5 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where o3-pro leads 72.2 to 39.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 51.6% for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and 84.9% for o3-pro.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and o3-pro specifications
Claude 3.5 Sonneto3-pro
ProviderAnthropicOpenAI
Noometry Index34.642.9
Released2024-06-202025-06-10
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—200K
Max output—100K
Input $ / M tokens—$20
Output $ / M tokens—$80
Results tracked6012

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Category by category

Coding o3-pro leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.0 (#165), o3-pro: 55.5 (#24)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 Sonneto3-pro
Aider Polyglot51.6%84.9%
WeirdML40%58.2%
GSO4.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46.8%—
LiveBench Coding67.1%—
LMArena Coding1342—
BigCodeBench Complete58.6%—
CadEval48%—
HumanEval+81.7%—
MBPP+74.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.3 (#67), o3-pro: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 Sonneto3-pro
TheAgentCompany24%—
Cybench17.5%—
BALROG32.6%—
METR Time Horizons45.2%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 23.1 (#183), o3-pro: 23.8 (#171)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 Sonneto3-pro
DTBench67.8%86.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index133.55147.42
ARC-AGI-2—4.9%
SimpleBench41.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—72.1%
ARC-AGI-1—59.3%
EnigmaEval0.9%—
LiveBench Reasoning56.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1305—
LiveBench Data Analysis55%—
LMCA—38.5%
ForecastBench60.7—
LiveBench59%—

Math Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 19.2 (#288), o3-pro: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 Sonneto3-pro
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20258.5%—
Omni-MATH27.6%—
LiveBench Math52.3%—
LMArena Math1307—
MATH Level 556.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)2.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Too close to call

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.6 (#245), o3-pro: 29.5 (#238)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 Sonneto3-pro
Confabulations19.9%14.2%
GPQA Diamond55.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam4.1%—
MMLU-Pro77.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—23.3%
GPQA (HELM)56.5%—
LMArena Expert1265—
MMLU87.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.5 (#120), o3-pro: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 Sonneto3-pro
LMArena Vision1125—
Video-MME60%—
GeoBench62%—
VPCT33%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.2 (#185), o3-pro: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 Sonneto3-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), o3-pro: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 Sonneto3-pro
LiveBench Instruction Following69.3%—
IFEval85.5%—
LMArena Instruction Following1297—

Long Context o3-pro leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#167), o3-pro: 72.2 (#1)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 Sonneto3-pro
Fiction.LiveBench—97.2%
LMArena Longer Query1311—

Writing & Preference o3-pro leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 52.9 (#164), o3-pro: 57.1 (#133)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 Sonneto3-pro
Short-Story Creative Writing80.3%84.4%
LMArena Text1298—
LMArena Creative Writing1292—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1451—
WildBench79.2%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1326—
LiveBench Language53.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than o3-pro?

o3-pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 34.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or o3-pro better for coding?

o3-pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.5 versus 39.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and o3-pro share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and o3-pro has 12.

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