The Model Index
Models/Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 4

AnthropicReleased 22 May 2025ClosedFlagshipDate verified
135123–146Index score#104 of 229 models
4/ 8Core tests taken3 of 6 areas · plus 19 anchor tests
−12Versus the frontier at releasebest then: o3Replaced by Claude Sonnet 4.5
$3.0/ $15Price per million tokensinput / output, list price
200KContext windowtokens it reads at once

Where it sitson the frontier

o1 reached this score 6 months earlier.

Test resultsby area · tick = best by any model

Reasoning & knowledgeevidence
GPQA Diamond
78%
Humanity's Last Exam
8%
Mathsevidence
FrontierMath T1-3
no result
Codingevidence
SWE-bench Verified
no result
Terminal-Bench
no result
Agentsevidence
APEX-Agents
no result
Novel problemsevidence
ARC-AGI-2
6%
Long tasksevidence
METR time horizon
1.2 h

Independent results from the Epoch AI benchmarking hub, best reasoning setting. The core tests are shown here; anchor tests also inform the score and can be shown above.

What others sayrank on each leaderboard

The Model Indexindependent tests, our method#104of 219 · 135
Epoch Capabilities Indexoverall capability from many benchmarks#98of 239 · 141.7

Further left is better. Leaderboards measure different things: LMArena is people voting blind between two answers, the others are test scores. Click any row for the source.

Best attop three among current models

Replaced by Claude Sonnet 4.5; it no longer leads any category among current models.

Where this model places in the top three of today's models, on category leaderboards and on our core tests.

Where to use itprices checked 1 Oct 2026

API providers 1 · per million tokens, in / out

AAmazon Bedrock$3.0 / $15cheapest

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Facts and sources

Released22 May 2025
Announcementanthropic.com ↗
Release entryClaude Opus 4 + Sonnet 4
Scored asClaude Sonnet 4
Artificial Analysis index–
Output speed–
Hugging Faceclosed weights

Anthropic releasesaround this one