Model comparison

Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs GPT-5.2

GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 35 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic

39.5

Rank #164 Confirmed

GPT-5.2 OpenAI

54.1

Rank #34 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 35 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 1 category and GPT-5.2 in 9 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.2 leads 50.2 to 18.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 28.6% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 86.2% for GPT-5.2.

Side by side

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and GPT-5.2 specifications
Claude 3.7 SonnetGPT-5.2
ProviderAnthropicOpenAI
Noometry Index39.554.1
Released2025-02-242025-12-11
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—400K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.75
Output $ / M tokens—$14
Results tracked5867

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.2 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136), GPT-5.2: 51.6 (#37)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGPT-5.2
SWE-bench Verified61%73.8%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)52.8%72.8%
GSO3.8%27.4%
LMArena Coding13611447
Aider Polyglot64.9%—
LMArena WebDev—1416
SWE-bench Multilingual—66.7%
WeirdML—72.2%
LiveBench Coding74.5%—
CadEval54%—
ALE-Bench—1,294
AlgoTune—2.05

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.2 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50), GPT-5.2: 40.2 (#24)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGPT-5.2
DeepResearch Bench43.6%41.1%
METR Time Horizons60%75.3%
Terminal-Bench—64.9%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—55.9%
GDPval—49.7%
Remote Labor Index—2.5%
TheAgentCompany30.9%—
τ²-bench Airline—83%
τ²-bench Banking—32.2%
τ²-bench Retail—81.6%
τ²-bench Telecom—89.7%
Cybench20%—
OSWorld35.8%—
LMArena Search—1207
Vending-Bench 2—3,591

Reasoning GPT-5.2 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277), GPT-5.2: 50.2 (#35)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGPT-5.2
ARC-AGI-20.9%52.9%
SimpleBench46.4%45.8%
ARC-AGI-128.6%86.2%
EnigmaEval4.2%10.4%
LMArena Hard Prompts13331445
Epoch Capabilities Index141.16153.45
ForecastBench61.860.1
Kagi LLM Benchmark—73.3%
NYT Connections (extended)—83.6%
Chess Puzzles—49%
EBR-Bench—23%
LiveBench Reasoning87.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—23%
DTBench—90.9%
LiveBench Data Analysis74%—
LMCA—43.9%
LiveBench76.1%—

Math GPT-5.2 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153), GPT-5.2: 60.0 (#38)

Knowledge GPT-5.2 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130), GPT-5.2: 59.3 (#32)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGPT-5.2
GPQA Diamond79.7%91.4%
Humanity's Last Exam8%27.8%
LMArena Expert13211445
SimpleQA Verified—37.1%
MMLU-Pro78.4%—
Confabulations14.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—8.4%
GPQA (HELM)60.8%—

Multimodal GPT-5.2 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95), GPT-5.2: 51.3 (#7)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGPT-5.2
LMArena Vision11691268
VPCT39%84%
GeoBench68%—
Furniture Assembly—38.3%
LMArena Document—1405
SpatialViz-Bench33.9%—

Multilingual GPT-5.2 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179), GPT-5.2: 53.4 (#67)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGPT-5.2
LMArena Non-English12961425
LMArena Chinese12991460
LMArena French13031455
LMArena German13011448
LMArena Japanese12671420
LMArena Korean12491392
LMArena Russian13111440
LMArena Spanish12981433

Instruction Following GPT-5.2 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125), GPT-5.2: 74.7 (#89)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGPT-5.2
LMArena Instruction Following13521417
LiveBench Instruction Following81.3%—
IFEval83.4%—

Long Context Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10), GPT-5.2: 44.0 (#78)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGPT-5.2
LMArena Longer Query13731428
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%—
CL-bench—18.2%

Writing & Preference GPT-5.2 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150), GPT-5.2: 66.8 (#32)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGPT-5.2
LMArena Text13141439
LMArena Creative Writing13321401
EQ-Bench Creative Writing14121703
LMArena Multi-Turn13391458
Short-Story Creative Writing81.1%—
WildBench81.4%—
LiveBench Language59.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than GPT-5.2?

GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or GPT-5.2 better for coding?

GPT-5.2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 40.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and GPT-5.2 share?

35 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.2 has 67.

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