Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs WizardLM-2 8x22B

Claude Sonnet 4.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#42); WizardLM-2 8x22B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic

50.1

Rank #42 Confirmed

WizardLM-2 8x22B Microsoft

30.7

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4.6 scores higher in 2 categories and WizardLM-2 8x22B in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads 51.6 to 23.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 87.4% for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and 43.4% for WizardLM-2 8x22B.
  • WizardLM-2 8x22B is cheaper at $0.62 / $0.62 per million input/output tokens, against $3 / $15 for Claude Sonnet 4.6.
  • Claude Sonnet 4.6 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 66K.
  • WizardLM-2 8x22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4.6WizardLM-2 8x22B
ProviderAnthropicMicrosoft
Noometry Index50.130.7
Released2026-02-172024-04-15
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M66K
Max output128K8K
Input $ / M tokens$3$0.62
Output $ / M tokens$15$0.62
Results tracked572

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 46.0 (#62), WizardLM-2 8x22B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6WizardLM-2 8x22B
SWE-bench Verified75.2%—
DeepSWE29.9%—
FrontierCode24.3%—
LMArena WebDev1521—
SciCode46.8%—
WeirdML66.1%—
LMArena Coding1504—
ALE-Bench1,327—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 39.1 (#26), WizardLM-2 8x22B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6WizardLM-2 8x22B
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 Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 46.1 (#40), WizardLM-2 8x22B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6WizardLM-2 8x22B
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)80.9%—
ARC-AGI-186.5%—
CritPt3.1%—
Chess Puzzles13%—
Thematic Generalization76.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1485—
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), WizardLM-2 8x22B: 26.8

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6WizardLM-2 8x22B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202585.8%—
ProofBench45%—
LMArena Math1463—
MATH Level 5—25.7%
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), WizardLM-2 8x22B: 23.3

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6WizardLM-2 8x22B
GPQA Diamond87.4%43.4%
SimpleQA Verified35.5%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.6%—
LMArena Expert1500—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 38.0 (#61), WizardLM-2 8x22B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6WizardLM-2 8x22B
LMArena Vision1283—
Blueprint-Bench 26.7%—
LMArena Document1482—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 54.6 (#39), WizardLM-2 8x22B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6WizardLM-2 8x22B
LMArena Non-English1440—
LMArena Chinese1491—
LMArena French1465—
LMArena German1428—
LMArena Japanese1419—
LMArena Korean1411—
LMArena Russian1440—
LMArena Spanish1465—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 77.6 (#23), WizardLM-2 8x22B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6WizardLM-2 8x22B
LMArena Instruction Following1476—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 45.3 (#40), WizardLM-2 8x22B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6WizardLM-2 8x22B
LMArena Longer Query1479—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 70.4 (#22), WizardLM-2 8x22B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6WizardLM-2 8x22B
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 WizardLM-2 8x22B?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#42); WizardLM-2 8x22B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 4.6 or WizardLM-2 8x22B?

WizardLM-2 8x22B is cheaper. It lists at $0.62 per million input tokens and $0.62 per million output tokens; Claude Sonnet 4.6 lists at $3 and $15.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 does, with 1M tokens against 66K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4.6 and WizardLM-2 8x22B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4.6 has 57 scored results on Noometry and WizardLM-2 8x22B has 2.

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