# Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs o1

> Claude Sonnet 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.5 to 40.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-sonnet-5-5-vs-o1
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 4

## Summary

- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores higher in 6 categories and o1 in 0 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads 88.7 to 34.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3): 88.8% for Claude Sonnet 5.5 and 14.7% for o1.
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 is cheaper at $2 / $10 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $60 for o1.
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 200K.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 60.5 | 40.6 |
| Rank | 10 | 140 |
| Context | 1M | 200K |
| Input $/M | $2 | $15 |
| Output $/M | $10 | $60 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Claude Sonnet 5.5: 65.5 (#6)
- o1: 45.7 (#64)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierCode | 52.1% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 61.7% |
| CursorBench | 55.5% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1699 | — |
| FrontierSWE | 61.9% | — |
| SciCode | 61% | — |
| WeirdML | — | 47.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 69.7% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1367 |
| CadEval | — | 56% |
| ALE-Bench | 1,819 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 89% |
| MBPP+ | — | 80.2% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude Sonnet 5.5: 44.9 (#14)
- o1: 24.3 (#111)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 75.5% | — |
| Cybench | — | 10% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 51.1% |

## Reasoning

- Claude Sonnet 5.5: 52.4 (#29)
- o1: 27.5 (#103)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | — | 41.7% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 30.7% |
| CritPt | 31.4% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 15% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 5.7% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 91.6% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1372 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 65% | — |
| DTBench | — | 74.7% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65.5% |
| LMCA | — | 22.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 141.92 |
| LiveBench | — | 75.7% |

## Math

- Claude Sonnet 5.5: 88.7 (#4)
- o1: 34.9 (#150)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 88.8% | 14.7% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 100% | 73.3% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 80.5% | — |
| ProofBench | 100% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 80.3% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1388 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 94.7% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 9.3% |

## Knowledge

- Claude Sonnet 5.5: 66.0 (#11)
- o1: 41.5 (#101)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 95.6% | 76.8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 46.5% | 41.1% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 8% |
| Confabulations | — | 11.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1362 |

## Multimodal

- Claude Sonnet 5.5: 53.2 (#5)
- o1: 33.6 (#87)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1168 |
| GeoBench | — | 80% |
| VPCT | — | 37% |
| Furniture Assembly | 75% | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 41.4% |

## Multilingual

- Claude Sonnet 5.5: —
- o1: 48.8 (#137)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1359 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1394 |
| LMArena French | — | 1343 |
| LMArena German | — | 1337 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1346 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1396 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1356 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1345 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Sonnet 5.5: —
- o1: 75.0 (#82)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.5% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1368 |

## Long Context

- Claude Sonnet 5.5: —
- o1: 50.3 (#9)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1378 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Sonnet 5.5: —
- o1: 55.8 (#139)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1366 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1347 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 70.2% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1368 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 65.4% |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 better than o1?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.5 to 40.6 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 5.5 or o1?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens; o1 lists at $15 and $60.

### Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 or o1 better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 65.5 versus 45.7 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 does, with 1M tokens against 200K.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 5.5 and o1 share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 5.5 has 16 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.