Model comparison
Claude 3 Opus vs Claude Sonnet 5.5
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.9 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 0 categories and Claude Sonnet 5.5 in 10 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads 87.9 to 14.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.7% for Claude 3 Opus and 100% for Claude Sonnet 5.5.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Opus | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 61.9 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2026-09-28 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1M |
| Max output | — | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $10 |
| Results tracked | 46 | 32 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads
Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Claude Sonnet 5.5: 67.3 (#6)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1264 | 1513 |
| FrontierCode | — | 52.1% |
| CursorBench | — | 55.5% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1774 |
| FrontierSWE | — | 61.9% |
| SciCode | — | 61% |
| WeirdML | 19.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.5% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.6% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.4% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 1,819 |
| HumanEval+ | 77.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 73.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads
Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Claude Sonnet 5.5: 45.0 (#16)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | — | 75.5% |
| Cybench | 10% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 29.5% | — |
Reasoning Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads
Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Claude Sonnet 5.5: 54.0 (#28)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1245 | 1495 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 126.91 | 165.03 |
| SimpleBench | 23.5% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 80.5% |
| CritPt | — | 31.4% |
| Chess Puzzles | 5% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.8% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 40.6% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 65% |
| DTBench | 61.6% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| LMCA | 17% | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | — |
| LiveBench | 49.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 88.5% | — |
Math Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads
Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Claude Sonnet 5.5: 87.9 (#6)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.7% | 100% |
| LMArena Math | 1273 | 1510 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 88.8% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 80.5% |
| ProofBench | — | 100% |
| LiveBench Math | 43.6% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 37.5% | — |
| FrontierMath Erdős | — | 2.9% |
Knowledge Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads
Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Claude Sonnet 5.5: 66.0 (#12)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.2% | 95.6% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 12.6% | 46.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | 1540 |
| Confabulations | 22.7% | — |
| MMLU | 84.6% | — |
Multimodal Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads
Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Claude Sonnet 5.5: 51.5 (#6)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1023 | 1289 |
| Furniture Assembly | — | 75% |
Multilingual Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads
Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Claude Sonnet 5.5: 55.3 (#30)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1258 | 1452 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1248 | 1522 |
| LMArena Russian | 1280 | 1451 |
| LMArena French | 1275 | — |
| LMArena German | 1258 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1204 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1246 | — |
Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads
Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Claude Sonnet 5.5: 78.3 (#11)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1248 | 1495 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.9% | — |
Long Context Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads
Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Claude Sonnet 5.5: 45.9 (#28)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1259 | 1498 |
Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads
Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Claude Sonnet 5.5: 66.0 (#40)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1262 | 1471 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | 1465 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1474 |
| LiveBench Language | 50.4% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Opus better than Claude Sonnet 5.5?
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.9 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3 Opus or Claude Sonnet 5.5 better for coding?
Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 67.3 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Claude Sonnet 5.5 share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Claude Sonnet 5.5 has 32.