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Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs o1 vs o1-preview

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Winner summary

o1 wins 12 of 18 shared benchmarks. Leads in knowledge · math · general.

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Claude 3.5 Sonnet
#205 by perf·no signal
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o1
#173 by perf·no signal
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o1-preview
#189 by perf·no signal
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Best value
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
n/a
no price
o1
1.2 pts/$
$37.50/M
o1-preview
n/a
no price
Vendor risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
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OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
Claude 3.5 Sonneto1o1-preview
Aider · Code Editing
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
84.2
o1
84.2
o1-preview
79.7
GPQA diamond
o1 leads by +33.2
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
38.7
o1
71.9
o1-preview
35.2
MATH level 5
o1 leads by +13.1
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
51.7
o1
94.7
o1-preview
81.7
Metr Time Horizons
o1 leads by +5.9
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
40.1
o1
51.0
o1-preview
45.1
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
o1 leads by +42.3
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
6.4
o1
73.3
o1-preview
31.0
SimpleBench
o1-preview leads by +1.9
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
13.0
o1
28.1
o1-preview
30.0
WeirdML
o1-preview leads by +3.7
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
31.0
o1
43.8
o1-preview
47.6
Aider polyglot
o1 leads by +10.1
Aider Polyglot · measures how well AI models can edit code across multiple programming languages using the Aider coding assistant framework.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
51.6
o1
61.7
ARC-AGI
o1 leads by +12.7
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
o1
30.7
o1-preview
18.0
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
o1-preview leads by +14.5
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
1374.0
o1-preview
1388.5
CadEval
o1 leads by +8.0
CadEval · evaluates the ability to generate and reason about Computer-Aided Design code, testing spatial reasoning and engineering knowledge.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
48.0
o1
56.0
Cybench
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads by +7.5
Cybench · evaluates AI on real Capture-The-Flag cybersecurity challenges, testing vulnerability analysis, exploitation, and security reasoning.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
17.5
o1-preview
10.0
Dtbench
o1 leads by +11.5
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
46.3
o1
57.8
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
o1 leads by +7.5
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
1.8
o1
9.3
GeoBench
o1 leads by +18.0
GeoBench · tests geographic knowledge and spatial reasoning across countries, landmarks, coordinates, and geopolitical understanding.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
62.0
o1
80.0
HLE
o1 leads by +3.3
HLE (Humanity's Last Exam) · a reasoning benchmark designed to be the hardest public evaluation of AI. Questions span mathematics, physics, philosophy, and logic · curated to be at or beyond the frontier of human expert capability. Tested with and without tool augmentation.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
0.0
o1
3.3
Lech Mazur Writing
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads by +10.1
Lech Mazur Writing · evaluates creative writing ability, assessing prose quality, narrative coherence, and stylistic sophistication.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
80.3
o1
70.2
VPCT
o1 leads by +5.5
VPCT (Visual Pattern Completion Test) · tests visual reasoning and pattern recognition by having models complete visual sequences and transformations.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
0.0
o1
5.5
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 Sonneto1o1-preview
Aider · Code Editing
84.284.279.7
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
38.771.935.2
MATH level 5
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
51.794.781.7
Metr Time Horizons
40.151.045.1
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
6.473.331.0
SimpleBench
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
13.028.130.0
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
31.043.847.6
Aider polyglot
Aider Polyglot · measures how well AI models can edit code across multiple programming languages using the Aider coding assistant framework.
51.661.7n/a
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
n/a30.718.0
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1374.0n/a1388.5
CadEval
CadEval · evaluates the ability to generate and reason about Computer-Aided Design code, testing spatial reasoning and engineering knowledge.
48.056.0n/a
Cybench
Cybench · evaluates AI on real Capture-The-Flag cybersecurity challenges, testing vulnerability analysis, exploitation, and security reasoning.
17.5n/a10.0
Dtbench
46.357.8n/a
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
1.89.3n/a
GeoBench
GeoBench · tests geographic knowledge and spatial reasoning across countries, landmarks, coordinates, and geopolitical understanding.
62.080.0n/a
HLE
HLE (Humanity's Last Exam) · a reasoning benchmark designed to be the hardest public evaluation of AI. Questions span mathematics, physics, philosophy, and logic · curated to be at or beyond the frontier of human expert capability. Tested with and without tool augmentation.
0.03.3n/a
Lech Mazur Writing
Lech Mazur Writing · evaluates creative writing ability, assessing prose quality, narrative coherence, and stylistic sophistication.
80.370.2n/a
VPCT
VPCT (Visual Pattern Completion Test) · tests visual reasoning and pattern recognition by having models complete visual sequences and transformations.
0.05.5n/a
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Anthropic logoClaude 3.5 Sonnetn/an/an/an/a
OpenAI logoo1$15.00$60.00200K tokens (~100 books)$262.50
OpenAI logoo1-previewn/an/an/an/a
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