Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4 vs Ring-2.6-1T

Claude Sonnet 4 has enough public results to be ranked (#139); Ring-2.6-1T does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4 Anthropic

40.6

Rank #139 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher in 1 category and Ring-2.6-1T in 1 category; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Claude Sonnet 4 leads 44.0 to 40.1.
  • Ring-2.6-1T has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4 and Ring-2.6-1T specifications
Claude Sonnet 4Ring-2.6-1T
ProviderAnthropicAnt Group (inclusionAI)
Noometry Index40.636.3
Released2025-05-222026-05-14
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$3—
Output $ / M tokens$15—
Results tracked583

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 44.0 (#70), Ring-2.6-1T: 40.1

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Ring-2.6-1T
SciCode40%42.4%
ALE-Bench655.35432.57
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)64.9%—
Aider Polyglot61.3%—
GSO4.9%—
WeirdML46.1%—
LMArena Coding1414—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 38.3 (#29), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Ring-2.6-1T
TheAgentCompany33.1%—
Cybench35%—
DeepResearch Bench46.6%—
OSWorld43.9%—
METR Time Horizons62%—

Reasoning Ring-2.6-1T leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 23.0 (#169), Ring-2.6-1T: 25.3

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Ring-2.6-1T
CritPt0.3%3.7%
ARC-AGI-25.9%—
SimpleBench45.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73%—
ARC-AGI-140%—
EnigmaEval3.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1372—
DTBench77.1%—
LMCA29%—
Epoch Capabilities Index141.69—
ForecastBench60.2—

Math Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 41.5 (#71), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Ring-2.6-1T
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%—
Omni-MATH60.2%—
LMArena Math1375—
MATH Level 584.4%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 41.6 (#99), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Ring-2.6-1T
GPQA Diamond79.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam7.8%—
MMLU-Pro84.3%—
Confabulations13.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.3%—
GPQA (HELM)70.6%—
LMArena Expert1371—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 25.6 (#116), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Ring-2.6-1T
LMArena Vision1191—
GeoBench37%—
VPCT34%—
MindCube44.8%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 46.9 (#151), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Ring-2.6-1T
LMArena Non-English1333—
LMArena Chinese1351—
LMArena French1364—
LMArena German1331—
LMArena Japanese1301—
LMArena Korean1293—
LMArena Russian1355—
LMArena Spanish1356—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 71.8 (#141), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Ring-2.6-1T
IFEval84%—
LMArena Instruction Following1375—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 33.6 (#254), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Ring-2.6-1T
Fiction.LiveBench46.9%—
LMArena Longer Query1398—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 57.3 (#127), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Ring-2.6-1T
LMArena Text1351—
LMArena Creative Writing1345—
Short-Story Creative Writing81.4%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1483—
WildBench83.8%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1376—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4 better than Ring-2.6-1T?

Claude Sonnet 4 has enough public results to be ranked (#139); Ring-2.6-1T does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Claude Sonnet 4 or Ring-2.6-1T better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 40.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4 and Ring-2.6-1T share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4 has 58 scored results on Noometry and Ring-2.6-1T has 3.

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