Model comparison
Claude 3 Sonnet vs Sonar
Sonar is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.5 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
PerplexitySummary
- The widest gap is in math, where Sonar leads 33.7 to 10.7.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Sonnet | Sonar | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Perplexity |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 38.5 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2024-01-01 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1 |
| Results tracked | 30 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding Sonar leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Sonar: 35.7 (#221)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 10.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42.7% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 35.1% |
| LMArena Coding | 1223 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 53.8% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 64% | — |
| MBPP+ | 69.3% | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Sonar: 21.1 (#227)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 46.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1197 | — |
| DTBench | 53.6% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 37.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.7 | — |
| LiveBench | — | 46.9% |
| WinoGrande | 75.1% | — |
Math Sonar leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Sonar: 33.7 (#200)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 41.6% |
| LMArena Math | 1213 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 18.2% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Sonar: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1173 | — |
| MMLU | 75.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Sonar: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 984 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Sonar: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1205 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1189 | — |
| LMArena French | 1229 | — |
| LMArena German | 1204 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1131 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1128 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1204 | — |
Instruction Following Sonar leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Sonar: 71.4 (#150)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 76.2% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1199 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Sonar: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1211 | — |
Writing & Preference Sonar leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Sonar: 52.6 (#167)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1218 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1227 | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 44.1% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Sonar?
Sonar is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.5 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Sonar better for coding?
Sonar scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.7 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Sonar share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Sonar has 7.