Benchmark Almanac

Claude Sonnet 4

Claude Sonnet 4 ranks first on 2 of the 146 benchmarks it has scores on.

Anthropic Released 22 May 2025
149
Benchmarks with a score
2
Ranked first, out of five or more models
14
In the top three
Anthropic May 2025

Claude Sonnet 4

Closed weights

141.6 #115 of 271
Epoch Capabilities Index
  • Humanity's Last Exam 7.76% #36 /47
  • SWE-Bench Pro 42.7% #9 /24
  • Toolathlon 29.9% #31 /50

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
MMLU-Pro 83.7% #38 of 212 Official leaderboard
LLM Confabulation Leaderboard 13.2% #13 of 58 Official leaderboard
Slop Score 27.3 #4 of 17 Official leaderboard
Judgemark v2.1 82.0 #11 of 42 Official leaderboard
SuperGPQA 57% #16 of 58 Official leaderboard
Lech Mazur Creative Writing 8.14 #14 of 44 Epoch AI
MMMLU 86.5% #23 of 62 Model card
LMArena (Elo) 1,402 #127 of 333 Official leaderboard
FACTS Grounding 79.1% #13 of 34 Official leaderboard
WritingBench 74.1 #19 of 45 Official leaderboard
RewardBench 2 71.2% #18 of 42 Official leaderboard
EQ-Bench 3 1,304 #35 of 78 Official leaderboard
ECLeKTic 18.5% #17 of 35 Official leaderboard
Global MMLU Lite 90.6% #21 of 43 Official leaderboard
Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard (HHEM) 4.50% #73 of 148 Official leaderboard
WideSearch 3.60% #3 of 6 Official leaderboard
FaithJudge 18.2% #19 of 37 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench 25.4% #56 of 107 Official leaderboard
Longform Creative Writing (EQ-Bench) 58.4 #68 of 119 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench V2 30% #71 of 122 Official leaderboard
Creative Writing v3 65.4 #70 of 120 Official leaderboard
Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard (2025 dataset) 10.3% #61 of 104 Official leaderboard
MultiChallenge 57.1% #21 of 35 Official leaderboard
FACTS Search 66.3% #19 of 31 Official leaderboard
FACTS Parametric 20.4% #34 of 45 Official leaderboard
Humanity's Last Exam 7.76% #36 of 47 Official leaderboard
Fiction.LiveBench 46.9% #45 of 57 Epoch AI
MultiNRC 18.4% #30 of 38 Official leaderboard
FACTS Multimodal 28.6% #31 of 39 Official leaderboard
FACTS Benchmark Suite 28.6% #37 of 40 Official leaderboard

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Misguided Attention 68.6% #2 of 45 Official leaderboard
CORE-Bench 46.7% #4 of 17 Official leaderboard
MATH Level 5 84.4% #23 of 94 Epoch AI
HiPhO 58% #14 of 35 Official leaderboard
GPQA Diamond 79.2% #90 of 219 Epoch AI
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 71.1% #97 of 202 Epoch AI
AIME 2025 85% #73 of 143 Model card
DTBench 61.8% #97 of 178 Official leaderboard
ForecastBench 63.1 #47 of 86 Official leaderboard
SimpleBench 45.5% #62 of 100 Official leaderboard
PHYBench 19.2% #18 of 28 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI-2 5.93% #62 of 95 Official leaderboard
CritPt 0.29% #108 of 160 Epoch AI
FrontierMath 4.14% #50 of 70 Epoch AI
ARC-AGI 40% #69 of 92 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tier 4 0% #50 of 55 Epoch AI

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
SWE-bench Verified 76.8% #3 of 60 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Lite 60.3% #1 of 15 Official leaderboard
AutoCodeBench 51.1% #3 of 34 Official leaderboard
ArtifactsBench 57.3% #4 of 20 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Multimodal 35.6% #2 of 9 Official leaderboard
Aider Polyglot 61.3% #15 of 54 Epoch AI
METR Time Horizon 74 min #9 of 31 Official leaderboard
SWE-Bench Pro 42.7% #9 of 24 Official leaderboard
WeirdML 46.1% #56 of 112 Official leaderboard
CodeClash 1,224 #4 of 8 Official leaderboard
Time series forecasting task (Anthropic) 5.80 #6 of 9 Model card
METR data deduplication 27.6% #2 of 3 Model card
IOI (Vals) 6.50% #38 of 55 Official leaderboard
GSO-Bench 4.90% #21 of 30 Official leaderboard
LiveCodeBench v5 57.9% #15 of 21 Official leaderboard
LiveCodeBench v6 55.9% #15 of 21 Official leaderboard
Text-based reinforcement learning task (Anthropic) 0.68 #5 of 7 Model card
ALE-Bench 655 #87 of 121 Epoch AI
LiveSQLBench 20% #26 of 36 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Verified (hard subset) 36.7% #7 of 9 Model card
Internal AI research evaluation suite 2 0.36 #5 of 6 Model card
Quadruped reinforcement learning task (Anthropic) 0.35 #8 of 8 Model card

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
tau-bench 70.3% #2 of 23 Model card
CompileBench 93.3% #2 of 20 Official leaderboard
SnakeBench 32 #26 of 183 Official leaderboard
Meta Agents Research Environments (ARE) / Gaia2 37.8% #2 of 13 Official leaderboard
AgentBench FC 58.2% #2 of 12 Official leaderboard
Galileo Agent Leaderboard v2 55% #4 of 21 Official leaderboard
MCP-Universe 32.9% #6 of 30 Official leaderboard
PinchBench 74% #14 of 48 Official leaderboard
LisanBench 2236.0 #42 of 133 Official leaderboard
Elimination Game 5 #18 of 56 Official leaderboard
MCPMark 28.4% #10 of 28 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 41.3% #8 of 22 Model card
Step Race 3 #23 of 59 Official leaderboard
LLM Chess 115 #59 of 124 Official leaderboard
GAIA 55.5% #29 of 57 Official leaderboard
DeepResearch Bench 46.6% #13 of 24 Epoch AI
OSWorld 43.9% #5 of 9 Epoch AI
OSWorld-Verified 43.9% #20 of 33 Official leaderboard
Toolathlon 29.9% #31 of 50 Official leaderboard
LiveResearchBench 62.3 #5 of 7 Official leaderboard
PinchBench 2.0 48.8% #49 of 57 Official leaderboard

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Vals Finance Agent v1 44.5% #10 of 47 Official leaderboard
TheAgentCompany 33.1% #3 of 14 Epoch AI
StockBench 2.20% #4 of 13 Official leaderboard
LegalBench 83% #63 of 138 Official leaderboard
CorpFin v2 61.2% #56 of 119 Official leaderboard
TaxEval v2 72% #66 of 129 Official leaderboard
MortgageTax 62.5% #51 of 86 Official leaderboard
MedCode 35% #73 of 96 Official leaderboard
ProfBench 42.5% #55 of 72 Official leaderboard
MedScribe 72.4% #80 of 98 Official leaderboard
TaxCalcBench 23% #16 of 17 Official leaderboard

Vision, audio and robotics

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
MMMU 74.4% #24 of 136 Official leaderboard
VisualPuzzles 47.3% #7 of 29 Official leaderboard
VISTA 45.5% #25 of 54 Official leaderboard
Vision Arena 1,207 #75 of 136 Official leaderboard
OCRBench v2 42.4% #36 of 65 Official leaderboard
ZeroBench 6.00% #38 of 66 Official leaderboard
Math-VR 28.1% #15 of 26 Official leaderboard
MindCube 44.8% #3 of 5 Epoch AI
EnigmaEval 3.12% #28 of 41 Epoch AI
Blueprint-Bench 0.27 #7 of 8 Official leaderboard
VPCT 34% #25 of 28 Epoch AI
ClockBench 6.70% #34 of 37 Official leaderboard
GeoBench 37% #47 of 48 Official leaderboard

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
AIR-Bench 2024 88.3% #4 of 82 Official leaderboard
HELM Safety 98.1 #4 of 75 Official leaderboard
BaxBench 56.1% #2 of 34 Official leaderboard
SimpleSafetyTests 100% #15 of 75 Official leaderboard
Average in-eval reward hacking rate (Anthropic) 14.3% #1 of 5 Model card
FORTRESS 18.1% #22 of 66 Official leaderboard
Single-turn harmful request evaluations (Anthropic) 99% #6 of 18 Model card
Anthropic Red Team 99.2% #31 of 75 Official leaderboard
BBQ (Bias Benchmark for QA) 86.3% #10 of 24 Model card
Malicious use of Claude Code (Anthropic) 90% #7 of 16 Model card
Impossible tasks (Anthropic) 45% #5 of 11 Model card
Cybench 35% #11 of 24 Official leaderboard
Reward-hack-prone coding tasks (Anthropic) 4.00% #5 of 8 Model card
Spiral-Bench v1.2 32.1 #14 of 21 Official leaderboard
Single-turn benign request evaluations (Anthropic) 0.23% #12 of 18 Model card
BinaryAudit 14% #15 of 20 Official leaderboard
CyberGym 22.6% #25 of 33 Official leaderboard
Network CTF challenges (Anthropic) 25% #5 of 6 Model card
Rev CTF challenges (Anthropic) 37.5% #5 of 6 Model card
Spiral-Bench v1.0 41.1 #12 of 13 Official leaderboard
StrongREJECT 2.24% #21 of 22 Model card
Creative biology 37% #7 of 7 Model card
Crypto CTF challenges (Anthropic) 31.8% #6 of 6 Model card
Pwn CTF challenges (Anthropic) 33.3% #6 of 6 Model card
Web CTF challenges (Anthropic) 73.3% #6 of 6 Model card
Computer use prompt injection evaluation (Anthropic) 69% #5 of 5 Model card
Bioweapons acquisition uplift trial (Anthropic) 1.70 #3 of 3 Model card
Bioweapons knowledge questions 51.5% #3 of 3 Model card

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
HELM Capabilities 76.6 #11 of 60 Official leaderboard
CAIS Risk Index 47.1 #25 of 65 Official leaderboard
LMCA 29% #87 of 139 Epoch AI
Conceptual Reasoning Index 41.1 #96 of 149 Official leaderboard
ACCoRD 57.0 #98 of 150 Official leaderboard
SAGE (Vals) 35% #67 of 81 Official leaderboard
CAIS Text Capabilities Index 17.1 #55 of 66 Official leaderboard
CAIS Vision Capabilities Index 26.4 #53 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. 42 of them aren't in the launch post.