# Claude 3 Sonnet vs GPT-4 Turbo

> GPT-4 Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.5 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-3-sonnet-vs-gpt-4-turbo
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 29

## Summary

- They share 29 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 2 categories and GPT-4 Turbo in 7 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-4 Turbo leads 47.7 to 42.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 18.2% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 46.7% for GPT-4 Turbo.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 30.5 |
| Rank | 319 | 292 |
| Context | — | 128K |
| Input $/M | — | $10 |
| Output $/M | — | $30 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302)
- GPT-4 Turbo: 33.8 (#249)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 10.2% | 18% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42.7% | 48.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1223 | 1268 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 53.8% | 58.2% |
| HumanEval+ | 64% | 86.6% |
| MBPP+ | 69.3% | 73.3% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 3 Sonnet: —
- GPT-4 Turbo: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| METR Time Horizons | — | 36.7% |

## Reasoning

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237)
- GPT-4 Turbo: 15.3 (#317)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1197 | 1251 |
| DTBench | 53.6% | 61.6% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.7 | 127.25 |
| SimpleBench | — | 25.1% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 6% |
| LMCA | — | 9.8% |
| ForecastBench | — | 59.4 |
| WinoGrande | 75.1% | — |

## Math

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310)
- GPT-4 Turbo: 9.0 (#322)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | 6.7% |
| LMArena Math | 1213 | 1272 |
| MATH Level 5 | 18.2% | 46.7% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 0.7% |

## Knowledge

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276)
- GPT-4 Turbo: 24.3 (#268)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | 46.6% |
| LMArena Expert | 1173 | 1223 |
| MMLU | 75.9% | 81.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 28.4% |

## Multimodal

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125)
- GPT-4 Turbo: 30.6 (#110)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 984 | 1090 |

## Multilingual

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234)
- GPT-4 Turbo: 40.5 (#216)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1205 | 1245 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1189 | 1242 |
| LMArena French | 1229 | 1276 |
| LMArena German | 1204 | 1259 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1131 | 1194 |
| LMArena Korean | 1128 | 1187 |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | 1259 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1204 | 1260 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235)
- GPT-4 Turbo: 65.8 (#216)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1199 | 1249 |

## Long Context

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228)
- GPT-4 Turbo: 38.0 (#206)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1211 | 1254 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238)
- GPT-4 Turbo: 47.7 (#206)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1218 | 1272 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | 1269 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1227 | 1267 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than GPT-4 Turbo?

GPT-4 Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.5 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 3 Sonnet or GPT-4 Turbo better for coding?

GPT-4 Turbo scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and GPT-4 Turbo share?

29 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4 Turbo has 36.