# Claude 3 Sonnet vs o1

> o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-3-sonnet-vs-o1
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 26

## Summary

- They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 0 categories and o1 in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where o1 leads 36.1 to 10.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 18.2% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 94.7% for o1.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 3 Sonnet | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 40.9 |
| Rank | 319 | 143 |
| Context | — | 200K |
| Input $/M | — | $15 |
| Output $/M | — | $60 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302)
- o1: 46.1 (#70)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 10.2% | 47.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1223 | 1367 |
| HumanEval+ | 64% | 89% |
| MBPP+ | 69.3% | 80.2% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 61.7% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42.7% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 69.7% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 53.8% | — |
| CadEval | — | 56% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 3 Sonnet: —
- o1: 24.6 (#117)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 10% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 51.1% |

## Reasoning

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237)
- o1: 27.9 (#111)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1197 | 1371 |
| DTBench | 53.6% | 74.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.7 | 141.91 |
| SimpleBench | — | 41.7% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 30.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 15% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 5.7% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 91.6% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65.5% |
| LMCA | — | 22.3% |
| LiveBench | — | 75.7% |
| WinoGrande | 75.1% | — |

## Math

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310)
- o1: 36.1 (#175)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | 73.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1213 | 1388 |
| MATH Level 5 | 18.2% | 94.7% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 14.7% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 80.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 9.3% |

## Knowledge

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276)
- o1: 41.5 (#110)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | 76.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1173 | 1361 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 41.1% |
| Confabulations | — | 11.7% |
| MMLU | 75.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125)
- o1: 34.2 (#93)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 984 | 1168 |
| GeoBench | — | 80% |
| VPCT | — | 37% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 41.4% |

## Multilingual

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234)
- o1: 48.6 (#142)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1205 | 1358 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1189 | 1394 |
| LMArena French | 1229 | 1344 |
| LMArena German | 1204 | 1337 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1131 | 1346 |
| LMArena Korean | 1128 | 1396 |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | 1356 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1204 | 1345 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235)
- o1: 74.8 (#86)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1199 | 1367 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.5% |

## Long Context

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228)
- o1: 50.3 (#9)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1211 | 1378 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238)
- o1: 55.6 (#144)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1218 | 1366 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | 1348 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1227 | 1369 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 70.2% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 65.4% |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than o1?

o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 3 Sonnet or o1 better for coding?

o1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.1 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and o1 share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.