Benchmark Almanac

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Claude Sonnet 5.5 ranks first on 9 of the 183 benchmarks it has scores on.

Anthropic Released 28 Sep 2026 Family Claude 5.5 The lab's model card
196
Benchmarks with a score
9
Ranked first, out of five or more models
62
In the top three
Anthropic Sep 2026

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Closed weights Mid-size

166.7 #5 of 271
Epoch Capabilities Index
  • Humanity's Last Exam 46.1% #4 /47
  • AutomationBench 44.8% #3 /5
  • Terminal-Bench 4.0 61.8% #2 /23

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
LMArena (Elo) 1,477 #28 of 333 Official leaderboard
Humanity's Last Exam 46.1% #4 of 47 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench V2 60% #31 of 122 Official leaderboard
HLE-Diamond 43.3% #6 of 18 Official leaderboard
SimpleQA Verified 44.8% #19 of 56 Official leaderboard
Global MMLU 92.1% #4 of 11 Model card
Global MMLU Lite 92.6% #16 of 43 Official leaderboard
Extended NYT Connections 80.5% #37 of 97 Official leaderboard
MILU 91.6% #4 of 10 Model card
AA-Omniscience 35% #8 of 17 Model card
FACTS Parametric V2 35.1% #18 of 20 Official leaderboard

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
GPQA Diamond 95.6% #3 of 219 Epoch AI
ProofBench 100% #3 of 83 Epoch AI
CritPt 31.4% #6 of 160 Epoch AI
DTBench 95.5% #7 of 178 Official leaderboard
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 100% #10 of 202 Epoch AI
ProofBench v1.1 100% #3 of 51 Official leaderboard
LatchBio Capabilities v1.0 54.2% #2 of 27 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 88.8% #8 of 89 Epoch AI
MysteryMechanism 49.1% #3 of 29 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 80.5% #9 of 71 Epoch AI
ARC-AGI 96.5% #13 of 92 Official leaderboard
SimpleBench 75.9% #15 of 100 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI-2 83.9% #16 of 95 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Erdős 2.90% #4 of 14 Epoch AI
Terminal-Bench-Science 59.9% #3 of 9 Model card
SpatialBench (LatchBio) 72.5% #2 of 6 Model card
Biomedical image analysis (Anthropic) 72.2% #1 of 3 Model card
Medicinal Chemistry (Anthropic) 65.3% #1 of 3 Model card
ArXivMath 86.8% #3 of 8 Model card
scBench (LatchBio SingleCellBench) 59.1% #3 of 6 Model card
Morphology-to-molecule matching (Anthropic) 25% #3 of 3 Model card
De novo protein binder design (Anthropic) 82.3% #2 of 2 Model card

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Vibe Code Bench 92.4% #1 of 115 Official leaderboard
Code Migration 69.8% #1 of 78 Official leaderboard
Code Arena 1,770 #3 of 124 Official leaderboard
SWE-Bench Pro 81.3% #2 of 77 Model card
WebDev Arena 1,786 #3 of 105 Epoch AI
SWE-bench Multilingual 90.3% #2 of 70 Model card
Code Migration v1.1 86.9% #1 of 29 Official leaderboard
MirrorCode 97.8% #1 of 28 Epoch AI
Image-to-WebDev Arena 1,737 #2 of 55 Official leaderboard
Android Bench 2.0 40% #1 of 11 Official leaderboard
CursorBench 55.5% #2 of 19 Epoch AI
FrontierCode 52.1% #5 of 46 Epoch AI
FrontierCode 2.0 41% #3 of 26 Official leaderboard
ALE-Bench 1,819 #14 of 121 Epoch AI
FrontierSWE 61.9% #3 of 21 Epoch AI
Brokk Power Ranking 26.5 #3 of 19 Official leaderboard
SWE-Marathon v1.1 51.3% #3 of 17 Official leaderboard
IOI v2 (Vals) 83.1% #9 of 45 Official leaderboard
OpenDesign Arena 86.8 #5 of 19 Official leaderboard
WeirdML v3 19.9% #7 of 25 Official leaderboard
ProgramBench 79.7% #6 of 20 Model card
DeepSWE 71% #17 of 51 Model card
FrontierCode 1.1 52.1% #5 of 12 Model card
ViBench 2.0 19.1% #4 of 9 Official leaderboard
SWE-Bench Pro V2 95.8% #8 of 16 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Multimodal 54.3% #5 of 10 Model card
RSI Bench 35.2 #4 of 8 Official leaderboard
CursorBench 4.0 55.5% #2 of 3 Model card
SWE-Bench Pro V2 Hard 70.6% #12 of 16 Official leaderboard
ReviewBench 63.1% #4 of 4 Official leaderboard

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Agent Arena 0.14 #3 of 53 Official leaderboard
Mystery Game Puzzles 65% #5 of 80 Epoch AI
LisanBench 13787.0 #9 of 133 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 4.0 61.8% #2 of 23 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Bargaining 247 #4 of 36 Official leaderboard
Chess Puzzles 59% #10 of 83 Epoch AI
LLM Chess 1,195 #15 of 124 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Nine Men's Morris 927 #5 of 36 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Go 1,450 #6 of 36 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI-3 72.4% #4 of 24 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Dots and Boxes 1,069 #7 of 37 Official leaderboard
Toolathlon-Verified 77.8% #4 of 13 Model card
o11y-bench 90.6% #2 of 6 Official leaderboard
Hermes Bench 73.5% #6 of 17 Official leaderboard
DRACO 87% #4 of 11 Model card
Game Arena Checkers 969 #14 of 38 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Dark Hex 281 #14 of 38 Official leaderboard
OSWorld 2.1 80.1% #2 of 5 Model card
Kaggle Game Arena 324 #16 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Word Art 604 #15 of 35 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Reversi 532 #17 of 36 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Chess 781 #19 of 39 Official leaderboard
CivBench 1,497 #10 of 18 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Lines of Action 460 #21 of 36 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe 247 #21 of 36 Official leaderboard
AutomationBench 44.8% #3 of 5 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Clobber 168 #23 of 36 Official leaderboard
StarSkirmish Bench 25.8% #6 of 9 Official leaderboard
WANDR 70% #2 of 3 Model card
SpireClimb 1.33% #6 of 7 Epoch AI
SpireClimb StS2 A10 2.67% #6 of 7 Epoch AI
Game Arena Coin Game 196 #31 of 35 Official leaderboard
SpireClimb StS1 A20 Heart 0% #7 of 7 Epoch AI

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
MedScribe 91.1% #3 of 98 Official leaderboard
Vals Index v2.2 70.8% #1 of 32 Official leaderboard
APEX-Agents 75.5% #2 of 56 Epoch AI
Excel Modeling Benchmark 75.7% #3 of 76 Official leaderboard
HealthBench Professional 69.2% #1 of 25 Model card
HealthBench 65.4% #2 of 30 Model card
Excel Modeling Benchmark v1.1 75.9% #3 of 37 Official leaderboard
Vending-Bench 2 $11,165 #7 of 66 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Agent v2.1 67.3% #4 of 35 Official leaderboard
EEBench 67.2% #3 of 26 Official leaderboard
PolicyBench 91.7% #6 of 50 Official leaderboard
MedCode 52.9% #12 of 96 Official leaderboard
Tax Agent Bench 42% #10 of 79 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Agent v2 58.1% #11 of 80 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Index 64.5% #5 of 35 Official leaderboard
Legal Research Bench 48.1% #13 of 88 Official leaderboard
RealmPathology 77.3% #2 of 13 Official leaderboard
Physical-Engineering's Last Exam 0.45 #3 of 18 Official leaderboard
FailureSensorIQ 67.4% #5 of 24 Official leaderboard
MissionReport 63.8% #2 of 9 Official leaderboard
Immigration Bench 69% #6 of 24 Official leaderboard
RCM-Bench-1 91% #5 of 20 Official leaderboard
Public Benefits Bench 67.2% #15 of 50 Official leaderboard
Clipping Bench $886 #6 of 19 Official leaderboard
AA-Briefcase v1.1 1,811 #2 of 6 Model card
GDPval-AA v2.1 1,844 #3 of 8 Model card
micro1 Medical Index 70% #3 of 8 Official leaderboard
Thrive Holdings helpdesk ticket resolution benchmark 51.9% #6 of 15 Official leaderboard
BenchCAD 74.7% #4 of 10 Model card
TaxCalcBench v2 48% #11 of 26 Official leaderboard
OfficeQA 76.9% #6 of 12 Model card
PhysicianBench 63.2% #1 of 2 Model card
Legora BAR 102.0 #9 of 17 Official leaderboard
Harvey LAB (Legal Agent Benchmark) 2.92% #45 of 80 Official leaderboard
PharmaBench (micro1) 11.4% #7 of 12 Official leaderboard
Harvey LAB v1.1 (HLAB-Vals-1.1) 10.4% #20 of 33 Official leaderboard
OfficeQA Pro 65.6% #9 of 14 Model card
Vals Legal Index 68% #22 of 33 Official leaderboard
Quant-Arena 40.9 #6 of 9 Official leaderboard
Short Form Bench $2,355 #7 of 9 Official leaderboard

Vision, audio and robotics

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
GDP.pdf 31.4% #3 of 39 Epoch AI
Furniture Assembly Benchmark 75% #5 of 35 Epoch AI
Blueprint-Bench 2 39.3% #7 of 35 Official leaderboard
Vision Arena 1,265 #33 of 136 Official leaderboard
ParseBench 69.3% #15 of 42 Official leaderboard
VibeVideoBench 3.88 #4 of 9 Official leaderboard
Dual-Arm Sim 26.0 #6 of 10 Official leaderboard
OmniParseBench 88.7 #4 of 6 Official leaderboard
Chartography 61.6% #9 of 12 Model card

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
BioSecBench-Function 53.5% #2 of 27 Official leaderboard
scBench-Long 31.8% #2 of 27 Official leaderboard
VariantBench 51.7% #2 of 27 Official leaderboard
Prompt injection robustness against adaptive attackers, browser use (Anthropic) 0% #1 of 13 Model card
OncologyBench 42.7% #3 of 30 Official leaderboard
TxBench-Preclinical-Pharmacology 64.3% #3 of 28 Official leaderboard
BioSecBench-Surveillance 54.6% #3 of 27 Official leaderboard
EpiBench 30.2% #3 of 27 Official leaderboard
MetagenomicsBench 60% #3 of 26 Official leaderboard
DeepsecBench 37.5 #4 of 28 Official leaderboard
TxBench-Antibody-Discovery 57.3% #4 of 28 Official leaderboard
TxBench-Oligo-Discovery 51.9% #5 of 28 Official leaderboard
SHADE-Arena 22.3% #3 of 16 Model card
SRE-Bench 30.1% #7 of 33 Official leaderboard
SpatialBench-Long 36.5% #6 of 27 Official leaderboard
Single-turn benign request evaluations (Anthropic) 0.02% #5 of 18 Model card
DistressBench 74.6% #12 of 42 Official leaderboard
Virology Capabilities Test (VCT) 58% #8 of 28 Model card
CyScenarioBench 46.1% #4 of 14 Model card
Prompt injection robustness against adaptive attackers, computer use (Anthropic) 0.07% #4 of 13 Model card
Anthropic automated behavioral audit 2.87 #2 of 6 Model card
Binary Exploitation Benchmark (Anthropic, OSS-Fuzz based) 85.8% #2 of 6 Model card
LinuxArena 36.2% #2 of 6 Model card
Silent copying of answers (Anthropic) 8.00% #1 of 3 Model card
ExploitGym 26.6% #5 of 14 Model card
ExploitBench 80% #7 of 19 Model card
Anthropic political even-handedness eval 97.9% #5 of 13 Model card
WellnessBench 57% #5 of 12 Official leaderboard
MASK 94.5% #9 of 21 Model card
Self-preference bias (Anthropic) 0.16 #2 of 4 Model card
Gray Swan IPI Arena benchmark 0.40% #6 of 10 Model card
Malicious use of Claude Code (Anthropic) 85.2% #10 of 16 Model card
Anthropic undermining liberal democracy (behavioral audit metric) 1.21 #4 of 6 Model card
Concealment of changes (Anthropic) 96.2% #2 of 3 Model card
Sandbox escape evaluation (Anthropic) 4.60% #2 of 3 Model card
CyberBench v1.1 (Vals) 59.6% #32 of 43 Official leaderboard
BBQ (Bias Benchmark for QA) 80% #18 of 24 Model card
Prompt injection robustness against adaptive attackers, coding (Anthropic) 3.01% #10 of 13 Model card
Single-turn harmful request evaluations (Anthropic) 95.6% #16 of 18 Model card
Malicious computer use (Anthropic) 79.5% #13 of 13 Model card
Rewind-attacker cyber adversarial robustness (Anthropic) 21% #5 of 5 Model card
Cyber harm coverage (Anthropic) 99.4% #4 of 4 Model card

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
LMCA 68.3% #1 of 139 Epoch AI
ACCoRD 85.1 #2 of 150 Official leaderboard
Conceptual Reasoning Index 77.1 #2 of 149 Official leaderboard
Vals Science Index 59.1% #3 of 23 Official leaderboard
SAGE (Vals) 51.8% #11 of 81 Official leaderboard
LiveBench 80% #5 of 28 Official leaderboard
Hermes Index 53.1 #4 of 17 Official leaderboard
SAGE v1.1 (Vals) 88% #9 of 28 Official leaderboard
Anthropic ECI (AECI) 167.9 #2 of 6 Model card

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. 64 of them aren't in the launch post.

Hallucination

AI R&D risk