Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs o1-pro

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.3 to 31.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic

50.3

Rank #50 Confirmed

o1-pro OpenAI

31.5

Rank #271 Reported

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4.6 scores higher in 2 categories and o1-pro in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads 46.1 to 20.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 86.5% for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and 23.3% for o1-pro.
  • Claude Sonnet 4.6 is cheaper at $3 / $15 per million input/output tokens, against $150 / $600 for o1-pro.
  • Claude Sonnet 4.6 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 200K.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4.6 and o1-pro specifications
Claude Sonnet 4.6o1-pro
ProviderAnthropicOpenAI
Noometry Index50.331.5
Released2026-02-172025-03-19
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M200K
Max output128K100K
Input $ / M tokens$3$150
Output $ / M tokens$15$600
Results tracked573

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 46.3 (#67), o1-pro: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6o1-pro
SWE-bench Verified75.2%—
DeepSWE29.9%—
FrontierCode24.3%—
LMArena WebDev1522—
SciCode46.8%—
WeirdML66.1%—
LMArena Coding1504—
ALE-Bench1,327—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 39.1 (#28), o1-pro: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6o1-pro
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 (#45), o1-pro: 20.4 (#239)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6o1-pro
ARC-AGI-186.5%23.3%
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)80.9%—
CritPt3.1%—
Chess Puzzles13%—
EnigmaEval—6.1%
Thematic Generalization76.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1484—
Mystery Game Puzzles16%—
DTBench89.9%—
LMCA46.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index152.24—
ForecastBench62—

Math Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 52.9 (#49), o1-pro: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6o1-pro
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202585.8%—
ProofBench45%—
LMArena Math1462—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)32.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)8.3%—

Knowledge Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 51.7 (#65), o1-pro: 29.7 (#234)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6o1-pro
GPQA Diamond87.4%—
Humanity's Last Exam—8.1%
SimpleQA Verified35.5%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.6%—
LMArena Expert1500—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 38.0 (#68), o1-pro: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6o1-pro
LMArena Vision1283—
Blueprint-Bench 26.7%—
LMArena Document1482—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 54.4 (#41), o1-pro: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6o1-pro
LMArena Non-English1440—
LMArena Chinese1491—
LMArena French1465—
LMArena German1428—
LMArena Japanese1420—
LMArena Korean1411—
LMArena Russian1440—
LMArena Spanish1464—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 77.4 (#25), o1-pro: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6o1-pro
LMArena Instruction Following1475—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 45.3 (#44), o1-pro: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6o1-pro
LMArena Longer Query1479—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 70.2 (#22), o1-pro: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6o1-pro
LMArena Text1458—
LMArena Creative Writing1435—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1810—
EQ-Bench 41207—
LMArena Multi-Turn1464—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 better than o1-pro?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.3 to 31.5 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 4.6 or o1-pro?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is cheaper. It lists at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens; o1-pro lists at $150 and $600.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 does, with 1M tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4.6 and o1-pro share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4.6 has 57 scored results on Noometry and o1-pro has 3.

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