# Claude 2 vs GPT-5.6 Luna

> GPT-5.6 Luna is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.7 to 24.7 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-2-vs-gpt-5-6-luna
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 4

## Summary

- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2 scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.6 Luna in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.6 Luna leads 77.5 to 8.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 2.5% for Claude 2 and 98.3% for GPT-5.6 Luna.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 2 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 24.7 | 54.7 |
| Rank | 342 | 24 |
| Context | — | 1.05M |
| Input $/M | — | $0.20 |
| Output $/M | — | $1.20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Claude 2: —
- GPT-5.6 Luna: 53.9 (#25)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| DeepSWE | — | 67.2% |
| FrontierCode | — | 39.8% |
| CursorBench | — | 35.9% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1517 |
| SciCode | — | 53.6% |
| WeirdML | — | 60.9% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1466 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 1,667 |
| HumanEval+ | 61.6% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 2: —
- GPT-5.6 Luna: 35.3 (#37)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 45.6% |
| GDP.pdf | — | 22.7% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 4,095 |

## Reasoning

- Claude 2: 20.8 (#213)
- GPT-5.6 Luna: 47.5 (#38)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 51.9% | 89.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.08 | 156.32 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 59.5% |
| SimpleBench | — | 46.8% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 49.1% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 69.4% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 88% |
| CritPt | — | 20.6% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 40% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1452 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 21% |
| LMCA | — | 48.5% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 61.9% |

## Math

- Claude 2: 8.7 (#314)
- GPT-5.6 Luna: 77.5 (#12)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | 98.3% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 82.1% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 61% |
| ProofBench | — | 60% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1455 |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude 2: 17.0 (#282)
- GPT-5.6 Luna: 58.6 (#31)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 34.7% | 91.6% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 41% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1479 |
| MMLU | 78.5% | — |
| TriviaQA | 87.5% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude 2: —
- GPT-5.6 Luna: 43.0 (#22)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1259 |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | — | 22.6% |
| Furniture Assembly | — | 42.5% |
| LMArena Document | — | 1457 |

## Multilingual

- Claude 2: —
- GPT-5.6 Luna: 53.0 (#73)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1418 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1469 |
| LMArena French | — | 1457 |
| LMArena German | — | 1459 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1416 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1414 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1428 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1445 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 2: —
- GPT-5.6 Luna: 76.0 (#48)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1440 |

## Long Context

- Claude 2: —
- GPT-5.6 Luna: 43.9 (#78)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1437 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 2: —
- GPT-5.6 Luna: 68.3 (#27)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1432 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1397 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1829 |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 1156 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1433 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 2 better than GPT-5.6 Luna?

GPT-5.6 Luna is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.7 to 24.7 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 2 and GPT-5.6 Luna share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2 has 8 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.6 Luna has 51.