# Claude 3 Sonnet vs GPT-5.2 Codex

> GPT-5.2 Codex is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.6 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-3-sonnet-vs-gpt-5-2-codex
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in coding, where GPT-5.2 Codex leads 45.5 to 29.6.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-5.2 Codex |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 42.6 |
| Rank | 319 | 111 |
| Context | — | 400K |
| Input $/M | — | $1.75 |
| Output $/M | — | $14 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302)
- GPT-5.2 Codex: 45.5 (#71)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-5.2 Codex |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 72.8% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1339 |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | 66.3% |
| WeirdML | 10.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42.7% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1223 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 53.8% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 1,300 |
| HumanEval+ | 64% | — |
| MBPP+ | 69.3% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 3 Sonnet: —
- GPT-5.2 Codex: 41.0 (#22)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-5.2 Codex |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 66.5% |

## Reasoning

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237)
- GPT-5.2 Codex: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-5.2 Codex |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1197 | — |
| DTBench | 53.6% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.7 | — |
| WinoGrande | 75.1% | — |

## Math

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310)
- GPT-5.2 Codex: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-5.2 Codex |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1213 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 18.2% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276)
- GPT-5.2 Codex: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-5.2 Codex |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1173 | — |
| MMLU | 75.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125)
- GPT-5.2 Codex: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-5.2 Codex |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 984 | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234)
- GPT-5.2 Codex: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-5.2 Codex |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1205 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1189 | — |
| LMArena French | 1229 | — |
| LMArena German | 1204 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1131 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1128 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1204 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235)
- GPT-5.2 Codex: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-5.2 Codex |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1199 | — |

## Long Context

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228)
- GPT-5.2 Codex: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-5.2 Codex |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1211 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238)
- GPT-5.2 Codex: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-5.2 Codex |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1218 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1227 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than GPT-5.2 Codex?

GPT-5.2 Codex is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.6 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 3 Sonnet or GPT-5.2 Codex better for coding?

GPT-5.2 Codex scores higher on coding benchmarks: 45.5 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and GPT-5.2 Codex share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.2 Codex has 5.