Model comparison

Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Claude Opus 4

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 39.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 47 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic

39.4

Rank #154 Confirmed

Claude Opus 4 Anthropic

42.9

Rank #93 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 47 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 2 categories and Claude Opus 4 in 8 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads 50.2 to 39.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Omni-MATH: 33% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 61.6% for Claude Opus 4.

Side by side

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Opus 4 specifications
Claude 3.7 SonnetClaude Opus 4
ProviderAnthropicAnthropic
Noometry Index39.442.9
Released2025-02-242025-05-22
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—200K
Max output—32K
Input $ / M tokens—$15
Output $ / M tokens—$75
Results tracked5856

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 41.1 (#120), Claude Opus 4: 47.8 (#55)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetClaude Opus 4
SWE-bench Verified61%70.7%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)52.8%67.6%
Aider Polyglot64.9%72%
GSO3.8%6.9%
LMArena Coding13611442
WeirdML—43.7%
LiveBench Coding74.5%—
CadEval54%—
AlgoTune—1.33

Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.9 (#46), Claude Opus 4: 34.5 (#39)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetClaude Opus 4
Cybench20%38%
DeepResearch Bench43.6%46.8%
METR Time Horizons60%63.9%
TheAgentCompany30.9%—
OSWorld35.8%—
LMArena Search—1127

Reasoning Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.7 (#252), Claude Opus 4: 27.4 (#104)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetClaude Opus 4
ARC-AGI-20.9%8.6%
SimpleBench46.4%58.8%
ARC-AGI-128.6%35.7%
EnigmaEval4.2%5.6%
LMArena Hard Prompts13331399
Epoch Capabilities Index141.16142.67
ForecastBench61.861.1
Kagi LLM Benchmark—74.3%
CritPt—0.3%
LiveBench Reasoning87.8%—
DTBench—81.6%
LiveBench Data Analysis74%—
LMCA—37.4%
LiveBench76.1%—

Math Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 35.7 (#137), Claude Opus 4: 40.2 (#80)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetClaude Opus 4
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%64.4%
Omni-MATH33%61.6%
LMArena Math13361391
MATH Level 591.2%85%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%4.5%
LiveBench Math79%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—4.2%

Knowledge Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.7 (#117), Claude Opus 4: 43.9 (#82)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetClaude Opus 4
GPQA Diamond79.7%76.3%
Humanity's Last Exam8%10.7%
MMLU-Pro78.4%87.5%
Confabulations14.7%15.9%
GPQA (HELM)60.8%70.8%
LMArena Expert13211384
Vectara Hallucination Rate—12%

Multimodal Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.1 (#90), Claude Opus 4: 30.9 (#101)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetClaude Opus 4
LMArena Vision11691192
GeoBench68%49%
VPCT39%38%
SpatialViz-Bench33.9%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.3 (#174), Claude Opus 4: 49.0 (#133)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetClaude Opus 4
LMArena Non-English12961362
LMArena Chinese12991386
LMArena French13021370
LMArena German13011391
LMArena Japanese12681332
LMArena Korean12491318
LMArena Russian13111392
LMArena Spanish12991388

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 73.1 (#120), Claude Opus 4: 77.3 (#26)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetClaude Opus 4
IFEval83.4%91.8%
LMArena Instruction Following13521406
LiveBench Instruction Following81.3%—

Long Context Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.2 (#10), Claude Opus 4: 39.5 (#167)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetClaude Opus 4
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%61.1%
LMArena Longer Query13731422

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.6 (#145), Claude Opus 4: 61.4 (#85)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetClaude Opus 4
LMArena Text13141377
LMArena Creative Writing13321386
Short-Story Creative Writing81.1%83.6%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing14121580
WildBench81.4%85.2%
LMArena Multi-Turn13391396
LiveBench Language59.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Claude Opus 4?

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 39.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Claude Opus 4 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.8 versus 41.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Opus 4 share?

47 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Claude Opus 4 has 56.

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