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o1-mini vs Claude 3 Sonnet

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Winner summary

o1-mini wins 4 of 4 shared benchmarks. Leads in knowledge · math · coding.

Category leads
knowledge·o1-minimath·o1-minicoding·o1-mini
Hype vs Reality
o1-mini
#171 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Claude 3 Sonnet
#192 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
o1-mini
no price
Claude 3 Sonnet
no price
Vendor risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$380.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
o1-miniClaude 3 Sonnet
GPQA diamond
o1-mini leads by +29.0
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
o1-mini
49.8
Claude 3 Sonnet
20.8
MATH level 5
o1-mini leads by +71.0
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
o1-mini
89.2
Claude 3 Sonnet
18.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
o1-mini leads by +44.5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
o1-mini
46.9
Claude 3 Sonnet
2.4
WeirdML
o1-mini leads by +26.2
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
o1-mini
36.3
Claude 3 Sonnet
10.2
Full benchmark table
Benchmarko1-miniClaude 3 Sonnet
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
49.820.8
MATH level 5
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
89.218.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
46.92.4
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
36.310.2
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
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Anthropic logoClaude 3 Sonnet