Model comparison

Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs GPT-5 Nano

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 33 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic

39.4

Rank #154 Confirmed

GPT-5 Nano OpenAI

33.4

Rank #234 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 33 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 8 categories and GPT-5 Nano in 2 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads 50.2 to 31.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Fiction.LiveBench: 83.3% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 44.4% for GPT-5 Nano.

Side by side

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and GPT-5 Nano specifications
Claude 3.7 SonnetGPT-5 Nano
ProviderAnthropicOpenAI
Noometry Index39.433.4
Released2025-02-242025-08-07
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—400K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.05
Output $ / M tokens—$0.40
Results tracked5848

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 41.1 (#120), GPT-5 Nano: 33.3 (#248)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGPT-5 Nano
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)52.8%34.8%
LMArena Coding13611351
SWE-bench Verified61%—
Aider Polyglot64.9%—
GSO3.8%—
WeirdML—38.1%
LiveBench Coding74.5%—
CadEval54%—
ALE-Bench—718.67

Agentic & Tool Use Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.9 (#46), GPT-5 Nano: 25.6 (#99)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGPT-5 Nano
Terminal-Bench—21.8%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—51.5%
TheAgentCompany30.9%—
Cybench20%—
DeepResearch Bench43.6%—
OSWorld35.8%—
METR Time Horizons60%—

Reasoning Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.7 (#252), GPT-5 Nano: 16.4 (#291)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGPT-5 Nano
ARC-AGI-20.9%2.6%
ARC-AGI-128.6%20.7%
LMArena Hard Prompts13331329
Epoch Capabilities Index141.16139.39
ForecastBench61.859.1
SimpleBench46.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—62.2%
Chess Puzzles—27%
EnigmaEval4.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning87.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—9%
DTBench—62.7%
LiveBench Data Analysis74%—
LMCA—7.9%
LiveBench76.1%—

Math Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 35.7 (#137), GPT-5 Nano: 29.1 (#221)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGPT-5 Nano
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%81.1%
Omni-MATH33%54.6%
LMArena Math13361318
MATH Level 591.2%95.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%8.3%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—20%
FrontierMath Tier 4—2.4%
ProofBench—12%
LiveBench Math79%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%

Knowledge Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.7 (#117), GPT-5 Nano: 35.8 (#166)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGPT-5 Nano
GPQA Diamond79.7%69.4%
MMLU-Pro78.4%77.8%
GPQA (HELM)60.8%67.9%
LMArena Expert13211321
Humanity's Last Exam8%—
SimpleQA Verified—11.7%
Confabulations14.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.5%

Multimodal Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.1 (#90), GPT-5 Nano: 30.7 (#102)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Vision11691159
VPCT39%37.2%
GeoBench68%—
SpatialViz-Bench33.9%—

Multilingual GPT-5 Nano leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.3 (#174), GPT-5 Nano: 45.5 (#167)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Non-English12961313
LMArena Chinese12991355
LMArena German13011329
LMArena Korean12491269
LMArena Russian13111296
LMArena Spanish12991360
LMArena French1302—
LMArena Japanese1268—

Instruction Following GPT-5 Nano leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 73.1 (#120), GPT-5 Nano: 75.2 (#72)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGPT-5 Nano
IFEval83.4%93.2%
LMArena Instruction Following13521306
LiveBench Instruction Following81.3%—

Long Context Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.2 (#10), GPT-5 Nano: 31.3 (#275)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGPT-5 Nano
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%44.4%
LMArena Longer Query13731313

Writing & Preference Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.6 (#145), GPT-5 Nano: 39.4 (#244)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Text13141320
LMArena Creative Writing13321250
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1412705
WildBench81.4%80.6%
LMArena Multi-Turn13391311
Short-Story Creative Writing81.1%—
LiveBench Language59.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than GPT-5 Nano?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or GPT-5 Nano better for coding?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.1 versus 33.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and GPT-5 Nano share?

33 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5 Nano has 48.

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