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Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs o1

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Winner summary

o1 wins 13 of 15 shared benchmarks. Leads in coding · general · math.

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Claude 3.5 Sonnet
#190 by perf·no signal
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#158 by perf·no signal
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1.2 pts/$
$37.50/M
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Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
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Head to head
Claude 3.5 Sonneto1
Aider · Code Editing
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
84.2
o1
84.2
Aider polyglot
o1 leads by +10.1
Aider Polyglot · measures how well AI models can edit code across multiple programming languages using the Aider coding assistant framework.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
51.6
o1
61.7
CadEval
o1 leads by +8.0
CadEval · evaluates the ability to generate and reason about Computer-Aided Design code, testing spatial reasoning and engineering knowledge.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
48.0
o1
56.0
Dtbench
o1 leads by +11.5
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
46.3
o1
57.8
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
o1 leads by +7.5
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
1.8
o1
9.3
GeoBench
o1 leads by +18.0
GeoBench · tests geographic knowledge and spatial reasoning across countries, landmarks, coordinates, and geopolitical understanding.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
62.0
o1
80.0
GPQA diamond
o1 leads by +30.3
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
38.7
o1
69.0
HLE
o1 leads by +3.3
HLE (Humanity's Last Exam) · a reasoning benchmark designed to be the hardest public evaluation of AI. Questions span mathematics, physics, philosophy, and logic · curated to be at or beyond the frontier of human expert capability. Tested with and without tool augmentation. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 46.9% without tools and 54.7% with tools · making it one of the few benchmarks where the top score is below 60%.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
0.0
o1
3.3
Lech Mazur Writing
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads by +10.1
Lech Mazur Writing · evaluates creative writing ability, assessing prose quality, narrative coherence, and stylistic sophistication.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
80.3
o1
70.2
MATH level 5
o1 leads by +43.0
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
51.7
o1
94.7
Metr Time Horizons
o1 leads by +10.9
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
40.1
o1
51.0
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
o1 leads by +66.9
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
6.4
o1
73.3
SimpleBench
o1 leads by +15.1
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
13.0
o1
28.1
VPCT
o1 leads by +5.5
VPCT (Visual Pattern Completion Test) · tests visual reasoning and pattern recognition by having models complete visual sequences and transformations.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
0.0
o1
5.5
WeirdML
o1 leads by +15.1
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
31.0
o1
46.1
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 Sonneto1
Aider · Code Editing
84.284.2
Aider polyglot
Aider Polyglot · measures how well AI models can edit code across multiple programming languages using the Aider coding assistant framework.
51.661.7
CadEval
CadEval · evaluates the ability to generate and reason about Computer-Aided Design code, testing spatial reasoning and engineering knowledge.
48.056.0
Dtbench
46.357.8
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
1.89.3
GeoBench
GeoBench · tests geographic knowledge and spatial reasoning across countries, landmarks, coordinates, and geopolitical understanding.
62.080.0
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
38.769.0
HLE
HLE (Humanity's Last Exam) · a reasoning benchmark designed to be the hardest public evaluation of AI. Questions span mathematics, physics, philosophy, and logic · curated to be at or beyond the frontier of human expert capability. Tested with and without tool augmentation. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 46.9% without tools and 54.7% with tools · making it one of the few benchmarks where the top score is below 60%.
0.03.3
Lech Mazur Writing
Lech Mazur Writing · evaluates creative writing ability, assessing prose quality, narrative coherence, and stylistic sophistication.
80.370.2
MATH level 5
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
51.794.7
Metr Time Horizons
40.151.0
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
6.473.3
SimpleBench
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
13.028.1
VPCT
VPCT (Visual Pattern Completion Test) · tests visual reasoning and pattern recognition by having models complete visual sequences and transformations.
0.05.5
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
31.046.1
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Anthropic logoClaude 3.5 Sonnet————
OpenAI logoo1$15.00$60.00200K tokens (~100 books)$262.50
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