Model comparison
Claude 3 Sonnet vs GPT-6 Sol
GPT-6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.8 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-6 Sol in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where GPT-6 Sol leads 87.2 to 10.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 2.5% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 100% for GPT-6 Sol.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-6 Sol | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 61.8 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2026-09-22 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1.05M |
| Max output | — | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $10 |
| Results tracked | 30 | 45 |
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Category by category
Coding GPT-6 Sol leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), GPT-6 Sol: 60.1 (#11)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1223 | 1447 |
| DeepSWE | — | 68.8% |
| FrontierCode | — | 49.3% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1688 |
| SciCode | — | 57.6% |
| WeirdML | 10.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42.7% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 53.8% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 2,462 |
| HumanEval+ | 64% | — |
| MBPP+ | 69.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: —, GPT-6 Sol: 37.2 (#36)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | — | 54.3% |
| GDP.pdf | — | 26.4% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 14,428 |
Reasoning GPT-6 Sol leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), GPT-6 Sol: 74.0 (#9)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1197 | 1418 |
| DTBench | 53.6% | 97.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.7 | 162.72 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 89.6% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 90.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 95.5% |
| CritPt | — | 30.9% |
| EBR-Bench | — | 53.3% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 56% |
| LMCA | — | 59.1% |
| WinoGrande | 75.1% | — |
Math GPT-6 Sol leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), GPT-6 Sol: 87.2 (#7)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | 100% |
| LMArena Math | 1213 | 1402 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 89.8% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 90% |
| ProofBench | — | 83% |
| MATH Level 5 | 18.2% | — |
Knowledge GPT-6 Sol leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), GPT-6 Sol: 64.8 (#15)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | 94.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1173 | 1439 |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 60.7% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 6.5% |
| MMLU | 75.9% | — |
Multimodal GPT-6 Sol leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), GPT-6 Sol: 47.6 (#10)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 984 | 1245 |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | — | 36.9% |
| Furniture Assembly | — | 58.3% |
Multilingual GPT-6 Sol leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), GPT-6 Sol: 50.5 (#118)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1205 | 1385 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1189 | 1405 |
| LMArena French | 1229 | 1410 |
| LMArena German | 1204 | 1390 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1131 | 1385 |
| LMArena Korean | 1128 | 1341 |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | 1401 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1204 | 1384 |
Instruction Following GPT-6 Sol leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), GPT-6 Sol: 74.5 (#94)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1199 | 1412 |
Long Context GPT-6 Sol leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), GPT-6 Sol: 43.1 (#108)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1211 | 1411 |
Writing & Preference GPT-6 Sol leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), GPT-6 Sol: 71.9 (#18)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1218 | 1395 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | 1378 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1227 | 1412 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 2125 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than GPT-6 Sol?
GPT-6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.8 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3 Sonnet or GPT-6 Sol better for coding?
GPT-6 Sol scores higher on coding benchmarks: 60.1 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and GPT-6 Sol share?
22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and GPT-6 Sol has 45.