Model comparison
Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Claude 3 Sonnet
Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 8 categories and Claude 3 Sonnet in 1 category; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads 37.5 to 10.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 91.2% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 18.2% for Claude 3 Sonnet.
Side by side
| Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Claude 3 Sonnet | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Noometry Index | 39.5 | 29.0 |
| Released | 2025-02-24 | 2024-02-29 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 58 | 30 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136), Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1361 | 1223 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 61% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 52.8% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 64.9% | — |
| GSO | 3.8% | — |
| WeirdML | — | 10.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 42.7% |
| LiveBench Coding | 74.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 53.8% |
| CadEval | 54% | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 64% |
| MBPP+ | — | 69.3% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50), Claude 3 Sonnet: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 30.9% | — |
| Cybench | 20% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 43.6% | — |
| OSWorld | 35.8% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 60% | — |
Reasoning Claude 3 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277), Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1333 | 1197 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.16 | 120.7 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.9% | — |
| SimpleBench | 46.4% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 28.6% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 4.2% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 87.8% | — |
| DTBench | — | 53.6% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 74% | — |
| ForecastBench | 61.8 | — |
| LiveBench | 76.1% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 75.1% |
Math Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153), Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | 2.5% |
| LMArena Math | 1337 | 1213 |
| MATH Level 5 | 91.2% | 18.2% |
| Omni-MATH | 33% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 79% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.1% | — |
Knowledge Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130), Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 79.7% | 40.6% |
| LMArena Expert | 1321 | 1173 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 8% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.4% | — |
| Confabulations | 14.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 60.8% | — |
| MMLU | — | 75.9% |
Multimodal Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95), Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1169 | 984 |
| GeoBench | 68% | — |
| VPCT | 39% | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 33.9% | — |
Multilingual Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179), Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1296 | 1205 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1299 | 1189 |
| LMArena French | 1303 | 1229 |
| LMArena German | 1301 | 1204 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1267 | 1131 |
| LMArena Korean | 1249 | 1128 |
| LMArena Russian | 1311 | 1227 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1298 | 1204 |
Instruction Following Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125), Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1352 | 1199 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 81.3% | — |
| IFEval | 83.4% | — |
Long Context Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10), Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1373 | 1211 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 83.3% | — |
Writing & Preference Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150), Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1314 | 1218 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1332 | 1186 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | 1227 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 81.1% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1412 | — |
| WildBench | 81.4% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 59.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Claude 3 Sonnet?
Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Claude 3 Sonnet better for coding?
Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.6 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude 3 Sonnet share?
22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Claude 3 Sonnet has 30.