Model comparison

Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 39.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 35 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic

39.4

Rank #154 Confirmed

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.3

Rank #18 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 35 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 1 category and Claude Opus 4.6 in 9 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 57.7 to 18.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Cybench: 20% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 93% for Claude Opus 4.6.

Side by side

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Opus 4.6 specifications
Claude 3.7 SonnetClaude Opus 4.6
ProviderAnthropicAnthropic
Noometry Index39.458.3
Released2025-02-242026-02-04
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$5
Output $ / M tokens—$25
Results tracked5868

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 41.1 (#120), Claude Opus 4.6: 57.7 (#15)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetClaude Opus 4.6
SWE-bench Verified61%78.7%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)52.8%75.6%
GSO3.8%41.2%
LMArena Coding13611535
FrontierCode—26.6%
Aider Polyglot64.9%—
LMArena WebDev—1546
SWE-bench Multilingual—72%
WeirdML—78%
LiveBench Coding74.5%—
CadEval54%—
ALE-Bench—996.5
AlgoTune—1.47

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.9 (#46), Claude Opus 4.6: 51.0 (#4)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetClaude Opus 4.6
Cybench20%93%
DeepResearch Bench43.6%55.3%
METR Time Horizons60%78.9%
Terminal-Bench—79.8%
APEX-Agents—46.3%
Remote Labor Index—4.2%
TheAgentCompany30.9%—
τ²-bench Banking—27.3%
OSWorld35.8%—
GBAEval—44.1%
LMArena Search—1253
Vending-Bench 2—8,018

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.7 (#252), Claude Opus 4.6: 57.7 (#21)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetClaude Opus 4.6
ARC-AGI-20.9%69.2%
SimpleBench46.4%67.6%
ARC-AGI-128.6%94%
EnigmaEval4.2%7.6%
LMArena Hard Prompts13331527
Epoch Capabilities Index141.16155.36
ForecastBench61.860
Kagi LLM Benchmark—83.6%
NYT Connections (extended)—92.1%
Chess Puzzles—17%
Thematic Generalization—80.6%
EBR-Bench—12.7%
LiveBench Reasoning87.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—25%
DTBench—91.2%
LiveBench Data Analysis74%—
LMCA—55.8%
LiveBench76.1%—

Math Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 35.7 (#137), Claude Opus 4.6: 62.7 (#25)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.7 (#117), Claude Opus 4.6: 61.8 (#23)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetClaude Opus 4.6
GPQA Diamond79.7%90.5%
Humanity's Last Exam8%34.4%
LMArena Expert13211546
SimpleQA Verified—47%
MMLU-Pro78.4%—
Confabulations14.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—12.2%
GPQA (HELM)60.8%—

Multimodal Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.1 (#90), Claude Opus 4.6: 37.0 (#67)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetClaude Opus 4.6
LMArena Vision11691316
GeoBench68%—
VPCT39%—
Furniture Assembly—28.3%
LMArena Document—1507
SpatialViz-Bench33.9%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.3 (#174), Claude Opus 4.6: 58.2 (#4)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetClaude Opus 4.6
LMArena Non-English12961490
LMArena Chinese12991551
LMArena French13021513
LMArena German13011504
LMArena Japanese12681484
LMArena Korean12491465
LMArena Russian13111497
LMArena Spanish12991512

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 73.1 (#120), Claude Opus 4.6: 79.7 (#3)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetClaude Opus 4.6
LMArena Instruction Following13521523
LiveBench Instruction Following81.3%—
IFEval83.4%—

Long Context Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.2 (#10), Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetClaude Opus 4.6
LMArena Longer Query13731520
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%—
CL-bench—20.7%
CL-bench Life—17%

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.6 (#145), Claude Opus 4.6: 73.7 (#9)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetClaude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text13141504
LMArena Creative Writing13321506
EQ-Bench Creative Writing14121809
LMArena Multi-Turn13391514
Short-Story Creative Writing81.1%—
WildBench81.4%—
EQ-Bench 4—1223
LiveBench Language59.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Claude Opus 4.6?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 39.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Claude Opus 4.6 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.7 versus 41.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Opus 4.6 share?

35 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Claude Opus 4.6 has 68.

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