Benchmark Almanac

Claude Sonnet 5

Claude Sonnet 5 places in the top three on 11 benchmarks.

Anthropic Released 30 Jun 2026 Family Claude 5 The lab's model card
196
Benchmarks with a score
0
Ranked first, out of five or more models
11
In the top three
Anthropic Jun 2026

Claude Sonnet 5

Closed weights Mid-size

157.0 #26 of 271
Epoch Capabilities Index
  • DeepSWE 53.9% #18 /28
  • Terminal-Bench 4.0 12.4% #21 /23
  • ZeroBench 13% #24 /66

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
Phare 78.1% #3 of 62 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench V2 80.8% #9 of 122 Official leaderboard
Humanity's Last Exam 57.4% #16 of 147 Model card
BullshitBench 65.5% #14 of 107 Official leaderboard
LMArena (Elo) 1,462 #47 of 333 Official leaderboard
INCLUDE 86.5% #4 of 25 Model card
Longform Creative Writing (EQ-Bench) 78.3 #20 of 119 Official leaderboard
Continual Learning Exam 40.2% #2 of 10 Official leaderboard
Creative Writing v3 76.3 #28 of 120 Official leaderboard
Document Arena 1,476 #12 of 37 Official leaderboard
SEA-HELM 73.8 #21 of 62 Official leaderboard
Judgemark v4 70.9 #15 of 40 Official leaderboard
EQ-Bench 4 1,221 #14 of 32 Official leaderboard
Extended NYT Connections 75.1% #45 of 97 Official leaderboard
SimpleQA Verified 32.1% #28 of 56 Official leaderboard
Global MMLU 89% #7 of 11 Model card
AA-Omniscience 20% #13 of 17 Model card
MILU 89.3% #8 of 10 Model card
FACTS Parametric V2 20.5% #19 of 20 Official leaderboard

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
ProofBench 66% #7 of 59 Official leaderboard
GPQA Diamond 90.5% #40 of 219 Epoch AI
DTBench 87.5% #34 of 178 Official leaderboard
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 94.7% #44 of 202 Epoch AI
CritPt 16.9% #41 of 160 Epoch AI
ProofBench v1.1 77% #16 of 51 Official leaderboard
SimpleBench 60.6% #36 of 100 Official leaderboard
Surface Evolver Bench 60% #10 of 26 Epoch AI
Organic Chemistry (Anthropic) 81% #2 of 5 Model card
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 65.6% #36 of 89 Epoch AI
BTF-3 0.14 #5 of 10 Epoch AI
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 29.3% #36 of 71 Epoch AI
LatchBio Capabilities v1.0 40.9% #16 of 27 Official leaderboard
ForecastBench 63.3 #52 of 86 Official leaderboard
Verifying the Verifiers (Project APE CRED benchmark) 77.5% #15 of 23 Official leaderboard
SpatialBench (LatchBio) 70% #4 of 6 Model card
USAMO 2026 79.5% #4 of 6 Model card
ArXivMath 65.7% #7 of 8 Model card
scBench (LatchBio SingleCellBench) 56% #6 of 6 Model card
ProteinGym 37% #3 of 3 Model card
Structural Biology (Anthropic) 69% #2 of 2 Model card

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
SWE-bench Verified 85.2% #6 of 150 Model card
WeirdML 68.8% #22 of 112 Official leaderboard
ALE-Bench 1,463 #26 of 121 Epoch AI
Vibe Code Bench 81.3% #27 of 115 Official leaderboard
GBAEval 65.3% #5 of 21 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Multilingual 78.3% #17 of 70 Model card
SWE-Bench Pro 63.2% #19 of 77 Model card
AndroidBench 76.2% #9 of 32 Official leaderboard
Code Migration 44.4% #23 of 78 Official leaderboard
GSO-Bench 37.3% #9 of 30 Official leaderboard
WebDev Arena 1,537 #34 of 105 Epoch AI
Code Arena 1,540 #44 of 124 Official leaderboard
SWE-Bench Pro V2 Hard 88.2% #6 of 16 Official leaderboard
Senior SWE-Bench 28% #9 of 23 Official leaderboard
FrontierCode 42.7% #20 of 46 Epoch AI
SWE-rebench 56.8% #6 of 13 Official leaderboard
FrontierCode 1.1 42.7% #4 of 8 Official leaderboard
Quadruped reinforcement learning task (Anthropic) 19.9 #4 of 8 Model card
Image-to-WebDev Arena 1,540 #30 of 55 Official leaderboard
SWE Refactor Bench 8.50% #5 of 8 Official leaderboard
DeepSWE 53.9% #18 of 28 Official leaderboard
IOI v2 (Vals) 45% #33 of 45 Official leaderboard
Novel compiler task (Anthropic) 76.1% #3 of 4 Model card
Time series forecasting task (Anthropic) 5.80 #7 of 9 Model card
SWE-Bench Pro V2 93.2% #13 of 16 Official leaderboard
Vibe Code Bench 1-100 13.8% #22 of 26 Official leaderboard
Next.js Agent Evals 81% #12 of 14 Official leaderboard
MLS-Bench 31.4% #13 of 15 Official leaderboard
CursorBench 34.1% #18 of 19 Epoch AI
SWE-bench Multimodal 28.1% #10 of 10 Model card
CursorBench 3.1 61.2% #4 of 4 Model card

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
LisanBench 5724.0 #21 of 133 Official leaderboard
BrowseComp 86.6% #15 of 77 Model card
Long-Horizon-Terminal-Bench (LHTB) 49.7% #5 of 25 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Five in a Row 865 #4 of 20 Official leaderboard
OSWorld-Verified 81.2% #8 of 37 Model card
LLM Chess 806 #30 of 124 Official leaderboard
Mystery Game Puzzles 35% #22 of 80 Epoch AI
Game Arena Go 1,126 #10 of 36 Official leaderboard
Agent Arena 0.03 #16 of 53 Official leaderboard
Toolathlon-Verified 71.6% #8 of 25 Official leaderboard
Chess Puzzles 45% #29 of 83 Epoch AI
Game Arena Nine Men's Morris 745 #13 of 36 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Dots and Boxes 945 #15 of 37 Official leaderboard
Toolathlon 54.3% #15 of 37 Model card
Game Arena Checkers 949 #17 of 38 Official leaderboard
CEO-Bench $64,459 #9 of 19 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Four in a Row 330 #21 of 38 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Clobber 248 #20 of 36 Official leaderboard
ApprenticeBench 16% #10 of 18 Official leaderboard
LMArena Search Arena 1,193 #22 of 35 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Dark Hex 201 #24 of 38 Official leaderboard
Kaggle Game Arena 256 #25 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe 188 #24 of 36 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 2.1 74.6% #9 of 13 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Reversi 256 #25 of 36 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Poker -7.27 #23 of 31 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Coin Game 236 #27 of 35 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Chess 585 #31 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Lines of Action 339 #29 of 36 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 3.0 14.6% #9 of 11 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Word Art 146 #30 of 35 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 4.0 12.4% #21 of 23 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Bargaining 87 #34 of 36 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Word Association 18 #34 of 36 Official leaderboard
AutomationBench 13.5% #41 of 41 Model card

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
ProfBench 60.4% #3 of 72 Official leaderboard
MortgageTax 70% #4 of 86 Official leaderboard
TaxEval v2 75.6% #15 of 129 Official leaderboard
CorpFin v2 67% #15 of 119 Official leaderboard
RCM-Bench-1 91.2% #3 of 20 Official leaderboard
Excel Modeling Benchmark 66.3% #22 of 76 Official leaderboard
Legal Research Bench 41.8% #26 of 88 Official leaderboard
LegalBench 83.9% #46 of 138 Official leaderboard
MedCode 47.5% #32 of 96 Official leaderboard
Vending-Bench 2 $6,378 #22 of 66 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Agent v2 53.9% #30 of 80 Official leaderboard
GDPval-AA v2 1,618 #10 of 26 Model card
Public Benefits Bench 66% #20 of 50 Official leaderboard
Tax Agent Bench 29.4% #32 of 79 Official leaderboard
APEX-Agents 54.5% #23 of 56 Epoch AI
HealthBench 58.7% #13 of 30 Model card
Harvey LAB (Legal Agent Benchmark) 5.00% #38 of 80 Official leaderboard
OfficeQA 73.3% #8 of 12 Model card
Holdings-IndividualTaxBench 71.5% #9 of 13 Official leaderboard
HealthBench Professional 57.8% #18 of 25 Model card
MedScribe 76% #71 of 98 Official leaderboard
EEBench 40.3% #19 of 26 Official leaderboard
RealmPathology 71.7% #10 of 13 Official leaderboard
TaxCalcBench v2 6.00% #21 of 26 Official leaderboard
AA-Briefcase 1,393 #5 of 6 Model card
OfficeQA Pro 59.4% #13 of 14 Model card
PolicyBench 72.3% #48 of 50 Official leaderboard
BenchCAD 26.6% #10 of 10 Model card
Real-World Finance v2 (Anthropic) 1,219 #2 of 2 Model card

Vision, audio and robotics

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
GDP.pdf 67.5% #3 of 15 Model card
Vision Arena 1,262 #37 of 136 Official leaderboard
ZeroBench 13% #24 of 66 Official leaderboard
ChartMuseum 70.1% #2 of 5 Model card
GeoBench 74% #22 of 48 Official leaderboard
ParseBench 61.2% #26 of 42 Official leaderboard
CharXiv 77% #42 of 67 Model card
VoxelBench 1,515 #37 of 56 Official leaderboard
ArtifactArena 986 #14 of 21 Official leaderboard
Blueprint-Bench 2 24.9% #25 of 35 Official leaderboard
Humanity's Sixth Sense 24.8% #24 of 29 Official leaderboard

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
MASK 96.9% #3 of 21 Model card
Malicious use of Claude Code (Anthropic) 92.4% #3 of 16 Model card
Human Pathogen Capabilities Test v2 (HPCT v2) 65% #14 of 71 Official leaderboard
Protocols (Anthropic life sciences) 62% #1 of 3 Model card
MetagenomicsBench 42.3% #9 of 26 Official leaderboard
Gray Swan Agent Red Teaming (ART) benchmark 0.10% #5 of 14 Model card
Dictatorship Eval 83.5% #8 of 20 Official leaderboard
BrowseSafe++ 88.4% #6 of 15 Official leaderboard
VariantBench 39.8% #11 of 27 Official leaderboard
DrugDiscoveryBench 50% #8 of 19 Official leaderboard
SHADE-Arena 10% #7 of 16 Model card
Prompt injection robustness against adaptive attackers, coding (Anthropic) 0.31% #6 of 13 Model card
TxBench-Oligo-Discovery 36.6% #14 of 28 Official leaderboard
Gray Swan IPI Arena benchmark 0.60% #5 of 10 Model card
Anthropic automated behavioral audit 2.53 #3 of 6 Model card
BioSecBench-Function 33.8% #16 of 27 Official leaderboard
scBench-Long 15.9% #16 of 27 Official leaderboard
TxBench-Preclinical-Pharmacology 49.3% #17 of 28 Official leaderboard
Prompt injection robustness against adaptive attackers, browser use (Anthropic) 0.93% #8 of 13 Model card
EpiBench 21.7% #17 of 27 Official leaderboard
OncologyBench 14.7% #20 of 30 Official leaderboard
Prompt injection live bug bounty (Anthropic with Gray Swan) 0.19% #2 of 3 Model card
Anthropic political even-handedness eval 96.4% #9 of 13 Model card
Malicious computer use (Anthropic) 84.7% #9 of 13 Model card
SpatialBench-Long 24.4% #19 of 27 Official leaderboard
DistressBench 68% #30 of 42 Official leaderboard
DeepsecBench 14.9 #20 of 28 Official leaderboard
CyberBench v1.1 (Vals) 61.9% #31 of 43 Official leaderboard
Prompt injection robustness against adaptive attackers, computer use (Anthropic) 2.25% #10 of 13 Model card
BioSecBench-Surveillance 39% #21 of 27 Official leaderboard
Single-turn harmful request evaluations (Anthropic) 96.7% #14 of 18 Model card
TxBench-Antibody-Discovery 32% #22 of 28 Official leaderboard
Virology Capabilities Test (VCT) 45% #22 of 28 Model card
BBQ (Bias Benchmark for QA) 72.4% #19 of 24 Model card
DNA Synthesis Screening Evasion 50% #4 of 5 Model card
Firefox 147 exploit evaluation (Anthropic) 13.2% #4 of 5 Model card
Anthropic undermining liberal democracy (behavioral audit metric) 1.22 #5 of 6 Model card
Binary Exploitation Benchmark (Anthropic, OSS-Fuzz based) 54.5% #5 of 6 Model card
CyberGym 52.7% #28 of 33 Model card
SRE-Bench 0.38% #28 of 33 Official leaderboard
Single-turn benign request evaluations (Anthropic) 0.59% #17 of 18 Model card
ExploitBench 31% #18 of 19 Model card
LinuxArena 0% #6 of 6 Model card
Uncritically reporting flawed results (Anthropic) 8.60 #3 of 3 Model card

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Political Science LLM Benchmark 69.7% #2 of 29 Official leaderboard
LMCA 50% #26 of 139 Epoch AI
ACCoRD 73.8 #30 of 150 Official leaderboard
Conceptual Reasoning Index 61.8 #31 of 149 Official leaderboard
Vals Multimodal Index 68.8% #8 of 33 Official leaderboard
SAGE (Vals) 48.9% #24 of 81 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.

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