Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Claude Opus 4.6
Head to head on 14 shared benchmarks, with price, context window, and release dates.
Benchmark scores
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| Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic | 67.0% | 1810elo | 77.7 | 40.7% | 88.4% | 19.0% | 78.8% | 78.2% | 63.3% | 83.3% | 68.5% | 51.9% | 75.6% | 76.0% | - | - | - | 99.79 | - | - | 56.1% | 1.5 | 2.08 | 69.0% | - | 1210elo | - | 53.1% | 84.9% | 88771 | - | 58 | 69.9% | 89.3% | 88.7% | - | - | 78.5% | 48.2% | 86.7% | - | 93 | 50.0% | - | 51.6% | 44.5 | - | 72.0% | - | 46.2% | 80.6 | - | 57.6% | - | 92.1% | 67.3% |
| Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic | 53.6% | 1451elo | 58.4 | 2.1% | 55.3% | 4.1% | 63.7% | 65.6% | 69.2% | 56.4% | 64.1% | 36.6% | 63.4% | 70.2% | 51.6% | 15.7% | 3.3% | - | 52.4% | 24.2% | - | - | - | - | 28.0% | - | 96.4 | - | - | - | 0.0% | - | - | - | - | 38.1% | 77.1% | - | - | - | 77.2% | - | - | 0.0% | - | - | 51.3% | - | 25.3% | - | - | 0.98 | - | 62.6% | - | 42.7% |
2 / 2 models
| Attribute | Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic | Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic |
|---|---|---|
| Description | Claude Sonnet 3.5 is an AI model from Anthropic. | Claude Opus 4.6 is an AI model from Anthropic. |
| Family | Claude | Claude |
| Params | - | - |
| Open weights | closed | closed |
| License | proprietary | proprietary |
| Released | 22 Oct 2024 | 5 Feb 2026 |
| Context | 200,000 | 1,000,000 |
| Input $/1M | $3.00 | $5.00 |
| Output $/1M | $15.00 | $25.00 |
| Cache read $/1M | - | $0.500 |
| Cache write $/1M | - | $6.250 |
| Speed | 0 tok/s | 0 tok/s |
| Latency | 0.00 s | 0.00 s |
| Modalities | text, image | text, image, file |
| Providers | - | - |
| Publisher | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Reported scores | MortgageTax64.1% Traveling Salesman0.98 (3 samples) SWE-bench Verified63.4% (SWE-bench) SWE-bench Lite51.3% (SWE-bench) SWE-bench Multimodal25.3% (SWE-bench) |
FAQ
- Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Claude Opus 4.6 better?
- Across the 14 benchmarks both models report on Sophon, Claude Opus 4.6 leads on 13 of them. Which one is "better" depends on the benchmark - the table above shows every shared score.
- How do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude Opus 4.6 compare on GPQA Diamond?
- Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores 55.3% and Claude Opus 4.6 scores 88.4% on GPQA Diamond.
- Which is cheaper, Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Claude Opus 4.6?
- Claude 3.5 Sonnet is cheaper at $15.00 per million output tokens against $25.00 for Claude Opus 4.6 - about 1.7x.
- When were Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude Opus 4.6 released?
- Claude 3.5 Sonnet was released 22 Oct 2024 by Anthropic. Claude Opus 4.6 was released 5 Feb 2026 by Anthropic.
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