Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Aion-2.0

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 60 versus 58. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 74.8 against 66. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 77 to 61. Aion-2.0 does hit back in instruction following, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Aion-2.0.

Quick Verdict

Pick Claude 3.5 Sonnet if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Aion-2.0 only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority.

Agentic

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

55

Aion-2.0

51.7

54
Terminal-Bench 2.0
48
62
BrowseComp
60
51
OSWorld-Verified
50

Coding

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

37.8

Aion-2.0

33.2

57
HumanEval
66
36
SWE-bench Verified
35
39
LiveCodeBench
29
37
SWE-bench Pro
37

Multimodal & Grounded

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

74.8

Aion-2.0

66

77
MMMU-Pro
61
72
OfficeQA Pro
72

Reasoning

Aion-2.0

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

67.7

Aion-2.0

70.3

63
SimpleQA
76
61
MuSR
74
83
BBH
76
70
LongBench v2
64
70
MRCRv2
65

Knowledge

Aion-2.0

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

50.8

Aion-2.0

54

65
MMLU
78
65
GPQA
77
63
SuperGPQA
75
61
OpenBookQA
75
74
MMLU-Pro
67
5
HLE
5
59
FrontierScience
66

Instruction Following

Aion-2.0

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

83

Aion-2.0

93

83
IFEval
93

Multilingual

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

80.5

Aion-2.0

78.1

85
MGSM
80
78
MMLU-ProX
77

Mathematics

Aion-2.0

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

71.2

Aion-2.0

72.1

65
AIME 2023
74
67
AIME 2024
76
66
AIME 2025
75
61
HMMT Feb 2023
70
63
HMMT Feb 2024
72
62
HMMT Feb 2025
71
64
BRUMO 2025
73
80
MATH-500
71

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Aion-2.0?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is ahead overall, 60 to 58. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 77 and 61.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Aion-2.0?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 54 versus 50.8. Inside this category, OpenBookQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Aion-2.0?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 37.8 versus 33.2. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Aion-2.0?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 72.1 versus 71.2. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Aion-2.0?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 70.3 versus 67.7. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Aion-2.0?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 55 versus 51.7. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Aion-2.0?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.8 versus 66. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Aion-2.0?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 93 versus 83. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Aion-2.0?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 80.5 versus 78.1. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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