Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
1-bit Bonsai 8B
~50
0/8 categoriesClaude Sonnet 4.5
69
Winner · 4/8 categories1-bit Bonsai 8B· Claude Sonnet 4.5
Pick Claude Sonnet 4.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. 1-bit Bonsai 8B only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 69 to 50. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Claude Sonnet 4.5's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 71.2 against 30. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 30% to 83.4%.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $3.00 input / $15.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for 1-bit Bonsai 8B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Claude Sonnet 4.5 gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 64K for 1-bit Bonsai 8B.
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| Benchmark | 1-bit Bonsai 8B | Claude Sonnet 4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | — | 50% |
| BrowseComp | — | 74% |
| OSWorld-Verified | — | 61.4% |
| Coding | ||
| HumanEval | — | 87% |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 77.2% |
| LiveCodeBench | — | 53% |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | 60% |
| SWE-Rebench | — | 60% |
| Multimodal & Grounded | ||
| MMMU-Pro | — | 95% |
| OfficeQA Pro | — | 87% |
| ReasoningClaude Sonnet 4.5 wins | ||
| MuSR | 50% | 89% |
| BBH | — | 88% |
| LongBench v2 | — | 82% |
| MRCRv2 | — | 81% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 13.6% |
| KnowledgeClaude Sonnet 4.5 wins | ||
| GPQA | 30% | 83.4% |
| MMLU | — | 95% |
| SuperGPQA | — | 91% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 84% |
| HLE | — | 21% |
| FrontierScience | — | 84% |
| SimpleQA | — | 91% |
| Instruction FollowingClaude Sonnet 4.5 wins | ||
| IFEval | 79.8% | 90% |
| Multilingual | ||
| MGSM | — | 91% |
| MMLU-ProX | — | 87% |
| MathematicsClaude Sonnet 4.5 wins | ||
| MATH-500 | 66% | 88% |
| AIME 2023 | — | 97% |
| AIME 2024 | — | 99% |
| AIME 2025 | — | 87% |
| HMMT Feb 2023 | — | 93% |
| HMMT Feb 2024 | — | 95% |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | — | 94% |
| BRUMO 2025 | — | 96% |
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is ahead overall, 69 to 50. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 30% and 83.4%.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.2 versus 30. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 90.4 versus 66. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 66.1 versus 50. Inside this category, MuSR is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 90 versus 79.8. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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