Model comparison

Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs GPT-5 Mini

GPT-5 Mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.7 to 39.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 40 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic

39.4

Rank #154 Confirmed

GPT-5 Mini OpenAI

41.7

Rank #115 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 40 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 3 categories and GPT-5 Mini in 7 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5 Mini leads 46.3 to 35.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Omni-MATH: 33% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 72.2% for GPT-5 Mini.

Side by side

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and GPT-5 Mini specifications
Claude 3.7 SonnetGPT-5 Mini
ProviderAnthropicOpenAI
Noometry Index39.441.7
Released2025-02-242025-08-07
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—400K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.25
Output $ / M tokens—$2
Results tracked5860

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 41.1 (#120), GPT-5 Mini: 40.0 (#134)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGPT-5 Mini
SWE-bench Verified61%64.7%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)52.8%59.8%
LMArena Coding13611406
Aider Polyglot64.9%—
SWE-bench Multilingual—39.7%
SciCode—39.2%
GSO3.8%—
WeirdML—52.7%
LiveBench Coding74.5%—
CadEval54%—
ALE-Bench—799.77
AlgoTune—1.38

Agentic & Tool Use Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.9 (#46), GPT-5 Mini: 31.0 (#64)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGPT-5 Mini
Terminal-Bench—34.8%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—55.5%
TheAgentCompany30.9%—
Cybench20%—
DeepResearch Bench43.6%—
OSWorld35.8%—
METR Time Horizons60%—
Vending-Bench 2—-31.18

Reasoning GPT-5 Mini leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.7 (#252), GPT-5 Mini: 24.1 (#153)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGPT-5 Mini
ARC-AGI-20.9%4.4%
ARC-AGI-128.6%54.3%
EnigmaEval4.2%8.2%
LMArena Hard Prompts13331380
Epoch Capabilities Index141.16145.51
ForecastBench61.861
SimpleBench46.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—70.3%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—30%
LiveBench Reasoning87.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—10%
DTBench—80.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis74%—
LMCA—34.2%
LiveBench76.1%—

Math GPT-5 Mini leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 35.7 (#137), GPT-5 Mini: 46.3 (#59)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGPT-5 Mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%86.7%
Omni-MATH33%72.2%
LMArena Math13361377
MATH Level 591.2%97.8%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%27.2%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—46.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4—12.2%
ProofBench—9%
LiveBench Math79%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—6.3%

Knowledge GPT-5 Mini leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.7 (#117), GPT-5 Mini: 45.5 (#80)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGPT-5 Mini
GPQA Diamond79.7%75%
Humanity's Last Exam8%19.4%
MMLU-Pro78.4%83.5%
Confabulations14.7%13.3%
GPQA (HELM)60.8%75.6%
LMArena Expert13211377
SimpleQA Verified—21.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—12.9%

Multimodal GPT-5 Mini leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.1 (#90), GPT-5 Mini: 35.0 (#80)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGPT-5 Mini
LMArena Vision11691202
VPCT39%40.2%
GeoBench68%—
SpatialViz-Bench33.9%—

Multilingual GPT-5 Mini leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.3 (#174), GPT-5 Mini: 49.1 (#131)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGPT-5 Mini
LMArena Non-English12961363
LMArena Chinese12991387
LMArena French13021385
LMArena German13011366
LMArena Japanese12681342
LMArena Korean12491306
LMArena Russian13111362
LMArena Spanish12991355

Instruction Following GPT-5 Mini leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 73.1 (#120), GPT-5 Mini: 76.4 (#43)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGPT-5 Mini
IFEval83.4%92.7%
LMArena Instruction Following13521357
LiveBench Instruction Following81.3%—

Long Context Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.2 (#10), GPT-5 Mini: 41.9 (#127)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGPT-5 Mini
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%69.4%
LMArena Longer Query13731355

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.6 (#145), GPT-5 Mini: 55.4 (#143)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGPT-5 Mini
LMArena Text13141373
LMArena Creative Writing13321325
Short-Story Creative Writing81.1%83.1%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing14121313
WildBench81.4%85.5%
LMArena Multi-Turn13391363
LiveBench Language59.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than GPT-5 Mini?

GPT-5 Mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.7 to 39.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or GPT-5 Mini better for coding?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.1 versus 40.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and GPT-5 Mini share?

40 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5 Mini has 60.

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