Model comparison
Claude 3 Sonnet vs GPT-5
GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5 in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5 leads 54.6 to 10.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 2.5% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 91.4% for GPT-5.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 28.8 | 50.9 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2025-08-07 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 400K |
| Max output | — | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $10 |
| Results tracked | 30 | 69 |
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Category by category
Coding GPT-5 leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.2 (#296), GPT-5: 50.7 (#39)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-5 |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 10.2% | 60.7% |
| LMArena Coding | 1223 | 1436 |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 73.6% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 65% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 88% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1417 |
| SciCode | — | 42.9% |
| GSO | — | 6.9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42.7% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 53.8% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 1,162 |
| AlgoTune | — | 1.67 |
| HumanEval+ | 64% | — |
| MBPP+ | 69.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: —, GPT-5: 33.0 (#53)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-5 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 49.6% |
| GDPval | — | 34.8% |
| Remote Labor Index | — | 1.7% |
| DeepResearch Bench | — | 49.6% |
| BALROG | — | 32.8% |
| LMArena Search | — | 1133 |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 69.6% |
Reasoning GPT-5 leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 19.7 (#232), GPT-5: 38.3 (#55)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1197 | 1415 |
| DTBench | 53.6% | 90.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.69 | 150 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 9.9% |
| SimpleBench | — | 56.7% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 72.7% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 65.7% |
| CritPt | — | 12.6% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 37% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 10.5% |
| EBR-Bench | — | 12.7% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 23% |
| LMCA | — | 40% |
| ForecastBench | — | 61.4 |
| WinoGrande | 75.1% | — |
Math GPT-5 leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.0 (#305), GPT-5: 54.6 (#36)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-5 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | 91.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1213 | 1406 |
| MATH Level 5 | 18.2% | 98.1% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 55.4% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 22% |
| ProofBench | — | 18% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 64.7% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 32.4% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 12.5% |
Knowledge GPT-5 leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#271), GPT-5: 56.5 (#37)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-5 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | 86.2% |
| LMArena Expert | 1173 | 1420 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 25.3% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 50.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 86.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 10.3% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 14.7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 79.2% |
| MMLU | 75.9% | — |
Multimodal GPT-5 leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 24.7 (#120), GPT-5: 46.1 (#12)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 984 | 1232 |
| GeoBench | — | 81% |
| VPCT | — | 66% |
Multilingual GPT-5 leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 38.0 (#229), GPT-5: 51.5 (#105)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1205 | 1397 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1188 | 1423 |
| LMArena French | 1228 | 1409 |
| LMArena German | 1204 | 1415 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1131 | 1411 |
| LMArena Korean | 1128 | 1361 |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | 1406 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1204 | 1398 |
Instruction Following GPT-5 leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 63.1 (#230), GPT-5: 74.0 (#107)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1200 | 1388 |
| IFEval | — | 87.5% |
Long Context GPT-5 leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#223), GPT-5: 69.5 (#2)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1211 | 1399 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 97.2% |
Writing & Preference GPT-5 leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.3 (#233), GPT-5: 63.5 (#63)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1218 | 1406 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | 1365 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1227 | 1426 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 86% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1627 |
| WildBench | — | 85.7% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than GPT-5?
GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3 Sonnet or GPT-5 better for coding?
GPT-5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.7 versus 29.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and GPT-5 share?
24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5 has 69.