Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Nemotron 4 340b Instruct

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.1 to 35.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic

50.1

Rank #42 Confirmed

Nemotron 4 340b Instruct NVIDIA

35.3

Rank #218 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4.6 scores higher in 8 categories and Nemotron 4 340b Instruct in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads 70.4 to 42.9.
  • Nemotron 4 340b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Nemotron 4 340b Instruct specifications
Claude Sonnet 4.6Nemotron 4 340b Instruct
ProviderAnthropicNVIDIA
Noometry Index50.135.3
Released2026-02-172024-06-14
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$3—
Output $ / M tokens$15—
Results tracked5717

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 46.0 (#62), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 34.6 (#223)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Nemotron 4 340b Instruct
LMArena Coding15041209
SWE-bench Verified75.2%—
DeepSWE29.9%—
FrontierCode24.3%—
LMArena WebDev1521—
SciCode46.8%—
WeirdML66.1%—
ALE-Bench1,327—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 39.1 (#26), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Nemotron 4 340b Instruct
Terminal-Bench53.4%—
APEX-Agents43%—
OSWorld 2.09.3%—
DeepResearch Bench54.9%—
OSWorld72.1%—
ExploitBench23.6%—
GBAEval48.8%—
GDP.pdf18%—
LMArena Search1221—
Vending-Bench 27,204—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 46.1 (#40), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 22.4 (#180)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Nemotron 4 340b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts14851202
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)80.9%—
ARC-AGI-186.5%—
CritPt3.1%—
Chess Puzzles13%—
Thematic Generalization76.3%—
Mystery Game Puzzles16%—
DTBench89.9%—
LMCA46.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index152.25—
ForecastBench62—

Math Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 51.9 (#41), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 31.7 (#193)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Nemotron 4 340b Instruct
LMArena Math14631216
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202585.8%—
ProofBench45%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)32.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)8.3%—

Knowledge Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 51.6 (#60), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 31.4 (#212)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Nemotron 4 340b Instruct
LMArena Expert15001171
GPQA Diamond87.4%—
SimpleQA Verified35.5%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 38.0 (#61), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Nemotron 4 340b Instruct
LMArena Vision1283—
Blueprint-Bench 26.7%—
LMArena Document1482—

Multilingual Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 54.6 (#39), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 38.0 (#228)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Nemotron 4 340b Instruct
LMArena Non-English14401206
LMArena Chinese14911214
LMArena French14651196
LMArena German14281192
LMArena Japanese14191128
LMArena Korean14111148
LMArena Russian14401219
LMArena Spanish14651195

Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 77.6 (#23), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 63.3 (#227)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Nemotron 4 340b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following14761203

Long Context Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 45.3 (#40), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 37.1 (#216)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Nemotron 4 340b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query14791225

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 70.4 (#22), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 42.9 (#229)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Nemotron 4 340b Instruct
LMArena Text14581225
LMArena Creative Writing14351203
LMArena Multi-Turn14641214
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1810—
EQ-Bench 41207—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 better than Nemotron 4 340b Instruct?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.1 to 35.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 or Nemotron 4 340b Instruct better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.0 versus 34.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Nemotron 4 340b Instruct share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4.6 has 57 scored results on Noometry and Nemotron 4 340b Instruct has 17.

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