Benchmark Almanac

Claude Sonnet 4.6

Claude Sonnet 4.6 ranks first on 5 of the 210 benchmarks it has scores on.

Anthropic Released 17 Feb 2026 Family Claude 4.6 The lab's model card
221
Benchmarks with a score
5
Ranked first, out of five or more models
28
In the top three
Anthropic Feb 2026

Claude Sonnet 4.6

Closed weights Mid-size

152.9 #50 of 271
Epoch Capabilities Index
  • SWE-bench Verified 75.2% #14 /32
  • Terminal-Bench 2.0 53.4% #15 /43
  • MMMU-Pro 75.6% #32 /72

Where it ranks

Its best score on each benchmark, and where that ranks among every model with a score there. We rank each model once, at its best setting.

Knowledge and language

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
BullshitBench 94.5% #2 of 107 Official leaderboard
Judgemark v2.1 94.1 #1 of 42 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench V2 91% #3 of 122 Official leaderboard
EQ-Bench 3 1,710 #5 of 78 Official leaderboard
MMLU-Pro 87.3% #14 of 212 Official leaderboard
LMArena (Elo) 1,472 #39 of 333 Official leaderboard
Judgemark v4 82.2 #5 of 40 Official leaderboard
Longform Creative Writing (EQ-Bench) 79.9 #15 of 119 Official leaderboard
HELM Arabic Enterprise 73.7 #4 of 23 Official leaderboard
Phare 74% #11 of 62 Official leaderboard
MMMLU 89.3% #12 of 62 Model card
Creative Writing v3 77.7 #25 of 120 Official leaderboard
HELM Arabic 81.5 #6 of 28 Official leaderboard
Document Arena 1,478 #10 of 37 Official leaderboard
Humanity's Last Exam 49% #40 of 147 Model card
SEA-HELM 74.1 #18 of 62 Official leaderboard
FACTS Search 76.4% #9 of 31 Official leaderboard
Extended NYT Connections 80.9% #36 of 97 Official leaderboard
SimpleQA Verified 30.9% #30 of 56 Official leaderboard
EQ-Bench 4 1,197 #20 of 32 Official leaderboard
Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard (2025 dataset) 10.6% #67 of 104 Official leaderboard
MILU 89.6% #7 of 10 Model card
Global MMLU 88.7% #8 of 11 Model card
FACTS Multimodal 32.5% #29 of 39 Official leaderboard
FACTS Benchmark Suite 32.5% #35 of 40 Official leaderboard
SkateBench v2 15.1% #20 of 21 Official leaderboard

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
AIME 2025 95.6% #23 of 143 Model card
FrontierMath 32.4% #17 of 70 Epoch AI
ProofBench 45% #16 of 59 Official leaderboard
GPQA Diamond 87.4% #61 of 219 Epoch AI
DTBench 83.1% #51 of 178 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI-2 60.4% #34 of 95 Official leaderboard
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 85.8% #77 of 202 Epoch AI
FrontierMath Tier 4 8.30% #22 of 55 Epoch AI
ARC-AGI 86.5% #42 of 92 Official leaderboard
Verifying the Verifiers (Project APE CRED benchmark) 83.5% #11 of 23 Official leaderboard
CritPt 3.14% #77 of 160 Epoch AI
ForecastBench 64.0 #61 of 86 Official leaderboard
BixBench3 15.3 #18 of 20 Official leaderboard
LatchBio Capabilities v1.0 31.5% #25 of 27 Official leaderboard
BioMysteryBench 50.4% #8 of 8 Model card
Organic Chemistry (Anthropic) 48.4% #5 of 5 Model card
BioPipelineBench (Anthropic) 52.1% #3 of 3 Model card
Phylogenetics (Anthropic) 49.1% #3 of 3 Model card

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
SWE-bench Verified (hard subset) 48.2% #1 of 9 Model card
Vibe Code Bench v1 29.1% #3 of 17 Official leaderboard
WeirdML 66.1% #25 of 112 Official leaderboard
ALE-Bench 1,327 #29 of 121 Epoch AI
WebDev Arena 1,521 #37 of 105 Epoch AI
GBAEval 48.8% #8 of 21 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Multilingual 75.9% #27 of 70 Model card
Code Arena 1,523 #48 of 124 Official leaderboard
Code Migration 39.9% #31 of 78 Official leaderboard
Text-based reinforcement learning task (Anthropic) 0.93 #3 of 7 Model card
SWE-bench Verified 75.2% #14 of 32 Epoch AI
Vibe Code Bench 55.8% #57 of 115 Official leaderboard
Time series forecasting task (Anthropic) 5.70 #5 of 9 Model card
FrontierCode 15.1% #7 of 12 Official leaderboard
AndroidBench 67% #19 of 32 Official leaderboard
Image-to-WebDev Arena 1,529 #33 of 55 Official leaderboard
ProgramBench 0% #15 of 25 Official leaderboard
SlopCodeBench 16.8% #9 of 14 Official leaderboard
PostTrainBench 16.4% #15 of 23 Official leaderboard
SWE Atlas 31.2% #15 of 22 Official leaderboard
SWE Atlas Test Writing 31.8% #15 of 22 Official leaderboard
OpenHands Index 44.5% #23 of 33 Official leaderboard
SWE Atlas Refactoring 32.2% #13 of 17 Official leaderboard
DeepSWE 29.9% #27 of 28 Official leaderboard
FrontierCode 1.1 24.3% #8 of 8 Official leaderboard
OpenRCA 27.9% #2 of 2 Model card

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Claw-Eval 81.4% #1 of 23 Official leaderboard
DeepResearch Bench 54.9% #2 of 24 Epoch AI
LisanBench 12060.0 #12 of 133 Official leaderboard
tau2-bench 94.8% #7 of 69 Model card
OSWorld 72.1% #1 of 9 Epoch AI
OSWorld-Verified 81.5% #4 of 33 Official leaderboard
Claw-Eval Pass^3 67.8% #3 of 23 Official leaderboard
PinchBench 76.4% #9 of 48 Official leaderboard
UniClawBench 45.5% #2 of 10 Official leaderboard
Pencil Puzzle Bench 26.7% #11 of 53 Official leaderboard
WebArena 65.6% #2 of 8 Model card
Toolathlon 44.8% #13 of 50 Official leaderboard
SnakeBench 26 #55 of 183 Official leaderboard
Claw-Eval-Live 61.9% #4 of 12 Official leaderboard
GameWorld 39.3% #4 of 12 Official leaderboard
ClawBench 56.9% #2 of 6 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 2.0 53.4% #15 of 43 Official leaderboard
PACT 1,546 #10 of 26 Official leaderboard
DeepSearchQA 89.2% #9 of 22 Model card
LLM Chess 190 #54 of 124 Official leaderboard
LMArena Search Arena 1,202 #16 of 35 Official leaderboard
WebArena-Verified 66.4% #3 of 6 Model card
Long-Horizon-Terminal-Bench (LHTB) 37.3% #13 of 25 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Clobber 265 #19 of 36 Official leaderboard
BrowseComp 74.7% #41 of 77 Model card
GAIA 54.5% #31 of 57 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Word Association 201 #20 of 36 Official leaderboard
MyPCBench 50.5% #5 of 9 Official leaderboard
OSWorld 2.0 9.30% #4 of 7 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Werewolf -2 #5 of 8 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Coin Game 287 #22 of 35 Official leaderboard
Chess Puzzles 23% #53 of 83 Epoch AI
Game Arena Dots and Boxes 805 #24 of 37 Official leaderboard
SkillsBench 47.2% #14 of 21 Official leaderboard
iOSWorld 46.6% #2 of 3 Official leaderboard
MCP Atlas 69.5% #23 of 34 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Checkers 690 #26 of 38 Official leaderboard
CEO-Bench $38,166 #13 of 19 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe 188 #25 of 36 Official leaderboard
PinchBench 2.0 62.7% #40 of 57 Official leaderboard
Kaggle Game Arena 200 #28 of 39 Official leaderboard
Mystery Game Puzzles 16% #60 of 80 Epoch AI
Game Arena Reversi 228 #27 of 36 Official leaderboard
CUA-World-Long 6.00% #3 of 4 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Word Art 219 #27 of 35 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Nine Men's Morris 426 #28 of 36 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Dark Hex 115 #31 of 38 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Lines of Action 323 #30 of 36 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Four in a Row 136 #34 of 38 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Five in a Row 241 #18 of 20 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Poker -19.86 #28 of 31 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Go 296 #33 of 36 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Chess 98 #36 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Bargaining 78 #35 of 36 Official leaderboard
ApprenticeBench 2.00% #18 of 18 Official leaderboard

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
TaxEval v2 77.1% #4 of 129 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Agent 63.3% #2 of 49 Official leaderboard
ProfBench 55.6% #15 of 72 Official leaderboard
EnterpriseClawBench 64.4% #2 of 9 Official leaderboard
MortgageTax 67.7% #22 of 86 Official leaderboard
CorpFin v2 65.3% #31 of 119 Official leaderboard
CaseLaw v2 64% #14 of 53 Official leaderboard
Vending-Bench 2 $7,204 #20 of 66 Official leaderboard
GDPval-AA 1,633 #5 of 16 Model card
Legal Research Bench 38.5% #35 of 88 Official leaderboard
RCM-Bench-1 89.8% #8 of 20 Official leaderboard
TaxCalcBench 37.3% #7 of 17 Official leaderboard
Excel Modeling Benchmark 60.1% #34 of 76 Official leaderboard
PhysicianBench 23% #6 of 13 Official leaderboard
Harvey LAB (Legal Agent Benchmark) 5.00% #37 of 80 Official leaderboard
Vending-Bench Arena $5,639 #15 of 32 Official leaderboard
Tax Agent Bench 25.8% #39 of 79 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Agent v2 51% #41 of 80 Official leaderboard
LegalBench 82.1% #73 of 138 Official leaderboard
Public Benefits Bench 62.5% #27 of 50 Official leaderboard
FORTE 68.3% #13 of 21 Official leaderboard
JobBench 36.6% #11 of 16 Official leaderboard
PolicyBench 79.9% #35 of 50 Official leaderboard
CADGenBench 28.3% #8 of 11 Official leaderboard
APEX-Agents 43% #41 of 56 Epoch AI
EEBench 20.4% #23 of 26 Official leaderboard
prinzbench 8.00 #26 of 26 Official leaderboard
Real-World Finance (Anthropic) 59.5% #3 of 3 Model card
MedCalc-Bench Verified 86.2% #1 of 1 Model card

Vision, audio and robotics

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Vision Arena 1,275 #27 of 136 Official leaderboard
Claw-Eval-MM 50.9% #4 of 11 Official leaderboard
ZeroBench 12% #26 of 66 Official leaderboard
MMMU-Pro 75.6% #32 of 72 Model card
GeoBench 73% #24 of 48 Official leaderboard
MDPBench 73.1 #5 of 9 Official leaderboard
GDP.pdf 18% #25 of 39 Epoch AI
1H-VideoQA 67.3% #14 of 20 Official leaderboard
CharXiv 72.4% #47 of 67 Model card
Blueprint-Bench 2 6.70% #29 of 35 Official leaderboard

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Malicious computer use (Anthropic) 99.4% #1 of 13 Model card
KORA 67.1% #4 of 42 Official leaderboard
Anthropic political even-handedness eval 98.4% #2 of 13 Model card
Prompt injection robustness against adaptive attackers, coding (Anthropic) 0% #2 of 13 Model card
Single-turn harmful request evaluations (Anthropic) 99.4% #4 of 18 Model card
Higher-difficulty harmful request evaluations (Anthropic) 99.4% #1 of 4 Model card
Creative biology 59.3% #2 of 7 Model card
Cybench 90% #5 of 17 Model card
Prompt injection robustness against adaptive attackers, browser use (Anthropic) 0.24% #4 of 13 Model card
Pwn CTF challenges (Anthropic) 71.4% #2 of 6 Model card
Web CTF challenges (Anthropic) 100% #2 of 6 Model card
Impossible tasks (Anthropic) 40% #4 of 11 Model card
BBQ (Bias Benchmark for QA) 88.1% #9 of 24 Model card
Reward-hack-prone coding tasks (Anthropic) 0% #3 of 8 Model card
Human Pathogen Capabilities Test v2 (HPCT v2) 60% #28 of 71 Official leaderboard
LAB-Bench FigQA 58.8% #4 of 10 Model card
SMDD-Bench 38% #3 of 7 Official leaderboard
ExploitBench 26% #4 of 9 Official leaderboard
CyberGym 65.2% #15 of 33 Official leaderboard
BiomniBench 62.4 #4 of 8 Official leaderboard
Crypto CTF challenges (Anthropic) 88.9% #3 of 6 Model card
Network CTF challenges (Anthropic) 100% #3 of 6 Model card
Rev CTF challenges (Anthropic) 100% #3 of 6 Model card
Participation in junk science (Anthropic) 0% #1 of 2 Model card
Gray Swan Agent Red Teaming (ART) benchmark 2.20% #8 of 14 Model card
Agentic coding malicious requests (Anthropic) 100% #3 of 5 Model card
VariantBench 31.1% #19 of 27 Official leaderboard
MetagenomicsBench 28.3% #19 of 26 Official leaderboard
SHADE-Arena 1.60% #12 of 16 Model card
DrugDiscoveryBench 31.3% #15 of 19 Official leaderboard
Over-eager behavior on GUI computer use tasks (Anthropic) 14.7% #4 of 5 Model card
SpatialBench-Long 22.6% #22 of 27 Official leaderboard
TxBench-Oligo-Discovery 30.1% #23 of 28 Official leaderboard
EpiBench 18.9% #23 of 27 Official leaderboard
scBench-Long 10.2% #23 of 27 Official leaderboard
TxBench-Antibody-Discovery 26.3% #24 of 28 Official leaderboard
Malicious use of Claude Code (Anthropic) 79.3% #14 of 16 Model card
BioSecBench-Function 27.3% #24 of 27 Official leaderboard
BioSecBench-Surveillance 34.5% #24 of 27 Official leaderboard
Single-turn benign request evaluations (Anthropic) 0.41% #16 of 18 Model card
Virology Capabilities Test (VCT) 39.7% #25 of 28 Model card
OncologyBench 5.33% #27 of 30 Official leaderboard
Prompt injection robustness against adaptive attackers, computer use (Anthropic) 12% #12 of 13 Model card
TxBench-Preclinical-Pharmacology 34.3% #26 of 28 Official leaderboard
Agentic BAIM-LLM Evaluation (ABLE) 0% #15 of 16 Official leaderboard
DNA Synthesis Screening Evasion 30% #5 of 5 Model card
Refusal to assist with AI safety R&D (Anthropic) 38% #5 of 5 Model card
Higher-difficulty benign request evaluations (Anthropic) 0.18% #4 of 4 Model card
SSH stress-testing evaluation (Anthropic) 92% #2 of 2 Model card

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
ACCoRD 73.4 #31 of 150 Official leaderboard
CAIS Risk Index 40.4 #14 of 65 Official leaderboard
LMCA 46.5% #34 of 139 Epoch AI
Conceptual Reasoning Index 59.2 #38 of 149 Official leaderboard
SAGE (Vals) 46.6% #34 of 81 Official leaderboard
Vals Multimodal Index 60.6% #17 of 33 Official leaderboard
CAIS Text Capabilities Index 26.3 #40 of 66 Official leaderboard
CAIS Vision Capabilities Index 46.3 #36 of 53 Official leaderboard

Anthropic's models over time

Anthropic's models in color, against every other model on the Epoch Capabilities Index, by release date.

50 75 100 125 150 175 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Claude Haiku 5.5 Claude Sonnet 5.5 Claude Sonnet 4.6 Claude Haiku 4.5 Claude 3.7 Sonnet Claude 3.5 Haiku Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024) 50 75 100 125 150 175 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Claude Haiku 5.5 Claude Opus 4.5

Its launch post

The benchmarks the lab chose to headline, with the scores it gave.

Its system card

Every result in the longer documents the lab published with it. 67 of them aren't in the launch post.