Model comparison
Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs GPT-5.5 Instant
GPT-5.5 Instant is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.7 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 2 categories and GPT-5.5 Instant in 7 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads 37.5 to 26.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 57.8% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 68.1% for GPT-5.5 Instant.
Side by side
| Claude 3.7 Sonnet | GPT-5.5 Instant | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 39.5 | 42.7 |
| Released | 2025-02-24 | 2026-05-05 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 58 | 27 |
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Category by category
Coding GPT-5.5 Instant leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136), GPT-5.5 Instant: 44.3 (#74)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1361 | 1433 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 61% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 52.8% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 64.9% | — |
| SciCode | — | 48.6% |
| GSO | 3.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 74.5% | — |
| CadEval | 54% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50), GPT-5.5 Instant: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 30.9% | — |
| Cybench | 20% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 43.6% | — |
| OSWorld | 35.8% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 60% | — |
Reasoning GPT-5.5 Instant leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277), GPT-5.5 Instant: 24.9 (#155)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1333 | 1426 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.16 | 142.52 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.9% | — |
| SimpleBench | 46.4% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 28.6% | — |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 12% |
| EnigmaEval | 4.2% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 87.8% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 74% | — |
| ForecastBench | 61.8 | — |
| LiveBench | 76.1% | — |
Math Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153), GPT-5.5 Instant: 26.5 (#259)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | 68.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1337 | 1420 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 26.3% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 2.4% |
| Omni-MATH | 33% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 79% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 91.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.1% | — |
Knowledge GPT-5.5 Instant leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130), GPT-5.5 Instant: 48.9 (#74)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 79.7% | 82.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1321 | 1409 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 8% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.4% | — |
| Confabulations | 14.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 60.8% | — |
Multimodal GPT-5.5 Instant leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95), GPT-5.5 Instant: 40.0 (#52)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1169 | 1250 |
| GeoBench | 68% | — |
| VPCT | 39% | — |
| LMArena Document | — | 1403 |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 33.9% | — |
Multilingual GPT-5.5 Instant leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179), GPT-5.5 Instant: 52.8 (#80)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1296 | 1417 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1299 | 1456 |
| LMArena French | 1303 | 1428 |
| LMArena German | 1301 | 1411 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1267 | 1408 |
| LMArena Korean | 1249 | 1392 |
| LMArena Russian | 1311 | 1431 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1298 | 1429 |
Instruction Following GPT-5.5 Instant leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125), GPT-5.5 Instant: 74.2 (#100)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1352 | 1406 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 81.3% | — |
| IFEval | 83.4% | — |
Long Context Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10), GPT-5.5 Instant: 43.4 (#96)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1373 | 1422 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 83.3% | — |
Writing & Preference GPT-5.5 Instant leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150), GPT-5.5 Instant: 61.8 (#85)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1314 | 1419 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1332 | 1419 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | 1433 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 81.1% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1412 | — |
| WildBench | 81.4% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 59.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than GPT-5.5 Instant?
GPT-5.5 Instant is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.7 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or GPT-5.5 Instant better for coding?
GPT-5.5 Instant scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.3 versus 40.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and GPT-5.5 Instant share?
21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.5 Instant has 27.