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Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs o1
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Winner summary
Claude Sonnet 4.6 wins on 5/5 benchmarks
Claude Sonnet 4.6 wins 5 of 5 shared benchmarks. Leads in reasoning · math · knowledge.
Category leads
reasoning·Claude Sonnet 4.6math·Claude Sonnet 4.6knowledge·Claude Sonnet 4.6coding·Claude Sonnet 4.6
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
Claude Sonnet 4.6
#104 by perf·#18 by attention
o1
#59 by perf·no signal
Best value
Claude Sonnet 4.6
3.5x better value than o1
Claude Sonnet 4.6
5.3 pts/$
$9.00/M
o1
1.5 pts/$
$37.50/M
Vendor risk
Who is behind the model
Anthropic
$380.0B·Tier 1
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Head to head
5 benchmarks · 2 models
Claude Sonnet 4.6o1
ARC-AGI
Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads by +55.8
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
Claude Sonnet 4.6
86.5
o1
30.7
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads by +23.1
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
Claude Sonnet 4.6
32.4
o1
9.3
GPQA diamond
Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads by +14.1
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Claude Sonnet 4.6
83.2
o1
69.0
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads by +12.5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Claude Sonnet 4.6
85.8
o1
73.3
WeirdML
Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads by +22.2
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
Claude Sonnet 4.6
66.1
o1
43.8
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | o1 |
|---|---|---|
ARC-AGI ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization. | 86.5 | 30.7 |
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. | 32.4 | 9.3 |
GPQA diamond Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs. | 83.2 | 69.0 |
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills. | 85.8 | 73.3 |
WeirdML WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns. | 66.1 | 43.8 |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $3.00 | $15.00 | 1.0M tokens (~500 books) | $60.00 | |
| $15.00 | $60.00 | 200K tokens (~100 books) | $262.50 |