Updated November 12, 2026. Rank says Claude Sonnet 5.5 is ahead. Price, access, and your workload can each overturn that. Public scores include evidence status and uncertainty.
Claude Sonnet 5.5 has the higher public score, 83.07 versus 52.99, and the 90% score intervals do not overlap. 4 results are shared. Category rows resting on Estimated evidence or different benchmark sets are marked directional and do not name a winner.
Claude Opus 4.5: $5 input / $25 output
Claude Sonnet 5.5: $2 input / $10 output
Claude Opus 4.5: 200K
Claude Sonnet 5.5: 1M
Claude Opus 4.5: November 24, 2025
Claude Sonnet 5.5: September 28, 2026
Recommendations appear only when a shared evidence basis or an explicit operating constraint supports the call. Secondary and unsupported use cases stay disclosed below the initial list.
Code generation, repair, and software-engineering tasks
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Claude Sonnet 5.5 has the higher public coding point estimate, 81 to 43.7, with Supported evidence for both models. The conditional ranges do not establish rank confidence.
Tool use, computer use, and multi-step task completion
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Claude Sonnet 5.5 has the higher public agentic point estimate, 72.7 to 27.3, with Supported evidence for both models. The conditional ranges do not establish rank confidence.
Prompts that approach the documented context limit
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Claude Sonnet 5.5 has the larger documented context window.
1K fresh input + 500 output tokens
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Claude Sonnet 5.5 has the lower estimated token cost for this stated workload. Costs use the listed standard API rates.
50K fresh input + 3K output tokens
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Claude Sonnet 5.5 has the lower estimated token cost for this stated workload. Costs use the listed standard API rates.
200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens
Not enough matched evidence
The page does not recommend a cost winner because at least one model cannot fit the stated workload in one request. Claude Opus 4.5 does not fit this workload in one request. Claude Opus 4.5 has no published cached-input rate, so cached tokens use its listed input rate.
Choose a job from the LLM Selector's task catalog to see the category row it rests on, under the same basis rules as the table below. A directional row stays directional; choosing a job never creates a winner.
The same task catalog as the LLM Selector. Each job names the evidence surface it rests on; nothing here adds a new score.
Like-for-like · BenchAlign v5.8
Claude Sonnet 5.5 has the higher coding point estimate. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence.
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Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results present for only one model describe coverage, not superiority.
1 category rests on Estimated evidence or different evidence sets. Those rows remain visible for coverage context but do not name a winner.
Only shared public evidence is shown. Sparse evidence stays a ruled list rather than being closed into a radar shape.
Too few matched category axes support a radar. The ruled list below shows only shared benchmark results; positions use each benchmark’s normalized display scale when available.
FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4)Math
Normalized gap 75.6FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3)Math
Normalized gap 54.4SWE-bench ProCoding
Normalized gap 24.2SWE MultilingualCoding
Normalized gap 12.8Each row shows the public-lane category score for both models: the BenchAlign v5.8 lane for agentic, coding, reasoning, multimodal, and knowledge, and the weighted public rows elsewhere, with the same rank each model page reports. A row is like-for-like only when both scores rest on Supported evidence or the same weighted set. Directional and not-comparable rows remain visible, but they never receive a winner.
| Category | Claude Opus 4.5 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Basis | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agentic | 27.3Supported · #109/135 | 72.7Supported · #9/135 | Like-for-likeBenchAlign v5.8 lane · 15 vs 19 public rows | Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads |
| Coding | 43.7Supported · #64/162 | 81.0Supported · #4/162 | Like-for-likeBenchAlign v5.8 lane · 8 vs 12 public rows | Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads |
| Reasoning | 41.2Supported · #76/160 | 77.0Supported · #6/160 | Like-for-likeBenchAlign v5.8 lane · 2 vs 0 public rows | Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads |
| Knowledge | 50.1Supported · #78/180 | 82.1Supported · #6/180 | Like-for-likeBenchAlign v5.8 lane · 8 vs 17 public rows | Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads |
| Multimodal | 49.4Estimated · #59/67 | 78.9Estimated · #7/67 | Directional onlyBenchAlign v5.8 lane · 18 vs 10 public rows | Directional only |
| Multilingual | 96.5#2/17 | Not ranked | Not comparableProvisional lane · 1 vs 0 weighted rows | Not comparable |
| Instruction following | 31.9#139/157 | Not ranked | Not comparableProvisional lane · 1 vs 0 weighted rows | Not comparable |
| Math | 52.9#10/12 | 89.7Unranked · 4 rankable rows | Not comparableProvisional lane · 4 vs 2 weighted rows | Not comparable |
Ranks count the models scored in each category’s lane, so the agentic, coding, reasoning, multimodal, and knowledge denominators (BenchAlign v5.8) differ from the provisional-lane categories. Unranked scores sit on the provisional lane’s scale but never name a winner. Like-for-like rows within 0.5 points read as a practical tie.
Three fixed token mixes turn per-token rates into comparable decisions. Each scenario states context fit and whether cached input had to fall back to the published list-input rate.
1K fresh input + 500 output tokens
Claude Sonnet 5.5 has the lower modeled cost
Costs use the listed standard API rates.
50K fresh input + 3K output tokens
Claude Sonnet 5.5 has the lower modeled cost
Costs use the listed standard API rates.
200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens
Claude Opus 4.5 does not fit this workload in one request. Claude Opus 4.5 has no published cached-input rate, so cached tokens use its listed input rate.
Enter a month of tokens to price it at both models’ listed API rates.
Standard listed rates, no batch or volume discounts.
Sourced differences are shown directly. Missing facts stay explicit instead of being inferred from a model name or family.
Maximum documented context; output-token limits may be lower.
Claude Opus 4.5
200K
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Claude Opus 4.5
Not sourced
Claude Sonnet 5.5
claude-sonnet-5-5
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5.5 model documentationA missing cached-input rate falls back to the listed input rate only in the stated workload estimate.
Claude Opus 4.5
Not published
Claude Sonnet 5.5
$0.1 per 1M cached input tokens
Claude API pricingClaude Opus 4.5
text, image
Anthropic Claude Opus 4.5 model pageClaude Sonnet 5.5
Claude Opus 4.5
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Claude Opus 4.5
Not sourced
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Generally Available · Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud, Microsoft Foundry, Claude Platform on AWS
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5.5 model documentationClaude Opus 4.5
Non-Reasoning
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Reasoning
Claude Opus 4.5
Proprietary
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Proprietary
Claude Opus 4.5
Proprietary
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Proprietary
Claude Opus 4.5
2025-11-24
Claude Sonnet 5.5
2026-09-28
Claude Sonnet 5.5 has the higher public score, 83.07 versus 52.99, and the 90% score intervals do not overlap. That is the clearest overall quality signal in the current public data.
Claude Sonnet 5.5 has the higher public coding point estimate, 81 to 43.7, with Supported evidence for both models. The conditional ranges do not establish rank confidence.
Claude Sonnet 5.5 has the higher public agentic tasks point estimate, 72.7 to 27.3, with Supported evidence for both models. The conditional ranges do not establish rank confidence.
For the stated presets, chat costs $0.0175 on Claude Opus 4.5 and $0.007 on Claude Sonnet 5.5; repository review costs $0.325 and $0.13; the cache-heavy agent loop costs $1.35 and $0.16. Claude Opus 4.5 does not fit this workload in one request. Claude Opus 4.5 has no published cached-input rate, so cached tokens use its listed input rate.
Claude Sonnet 5.5 has the larger documented context window: 1M, compared with 200K.
The full public result ledger is available for audit without forcing a wide desktop table onto a phone.
Terminal-Bench 2.0
Not directly comparable
OSWorld-Verified
Not directly comparable
OSWorld
Not directly comparable
Claw-Eval
Not directly comparable
QwenClawBench
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τ³-bench results
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VITA-Bench
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DeepPlanning
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Toolathlon
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MCP Atlas
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MCP-Tasks
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WideResearch
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CyberGym
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Gert Labs
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JobBench
Not directly comparable
Terminal-Bench 4.1
Not directly comparable
Terminal-Bench 4.0
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HLE w/ tools
Not directly comparable
DRACO
Not directly comparable
Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1
Not directly comparable
LAB all-pass (Harvey held-out)
Not directly comparable
LAB criterion-pass (Harvey held-out)
Not directly comparable
Toolathlon Verified Pass@3
Not directly comparable
Toolathlon Verified Pass³
Not directly comparable
Toolathlon Verified avg. turns
Not directly comparable
AutomationBench (Zapier 1.0.6)
Not directly comparable
Toolathlon-Verified
Not directly comparable
Hermes Index
Not directly comparable
Hermes Bench
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MazeBench
Not directly comparable
OSWorld 2.1
Not directly comparable
OSWorld 2.1 Offline
Not directly comparable
Binary Exploitation Benchmark
Not directly comparable
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals)
Not directly comparable
SWE-bench Verified
Not directly comparable
LiveCodeBench v6
Not directly comparable
SWE-bench Pro
Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads this result
SWE Multilingual
Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads this result
NL2Repo
Not directly comparable
Terminal-Bench 2.0
Not directly comparable
LiveCodeBench (Vals)
Not directly comparable
PostTrainBench v1
Not directly comparable
FrontierCode 1.1 Main
Not directly comparable
CursorBench 4.0
Not directly comparable
SWE Multimodal
Not directly comparable
DeepSWE
Not directly comparable
FrontierCode 1.1 Extended
Not directly comparable
ProgramBench
Not directly comparable
FrontierSWE v2
Not directly comparable
Bug Hunt Bench
Not directly comparable
FrontierCode 2.0
Not directly comparable
VulcanBench Frontier v4
Not directly comparable
MMMU
Not directly comparable
MMMU-Pro
Not directly comparable
RealWorldQA
Not directly comparable
OmniDocBench 1.5
Not directly comparable
Video-MME (with subtitle)
Not directly comparable
Video-MME (w/o subtitle)
Not directly comparable
MathVision
Not directly comparable
We-Math
Not directly comparable
DynaMath
Not directly comparable
SimpleVQA
Not directly comparable
CharXiv
Not directly comparable
CountBench
Not directly comparable
AI2D_TEST
Not directly comparable
ERQA
Not directly comparable
VideoMMMU
Not directly comparable
MLVU (M-Avg)
Not directly comparable
ScreenSpot Pro
Not directly comparable
V*
Not directly comparable
ExtractBench Pro
Not directly comparable
ExtractBench (LlamaIndex)
Not directly comparable
ParseBench
Not directly comparable
Chartography (no tools)
Not directly comparable
Chartography (tools)
Not directly comparable
BenchCAD Vision2Code (no tools)
Not directly comparable
BenchCAD Vision2Code (tools)
Not directly comparable
Biomedical image analysis
Not directly comparable
OfficeQA
Not directly comparable
OfficeQA Pro
Not directly comparable
GPQA
Not directly comparable
SuperGPQA
Not directly comparable
MMLU-Pro
Not directly comparable
MMLU-Redux
Not directly comparable
C-Eval
Not directly comparable
HLE
Not directly comparable
GPQA Diamond (Vals)
Not directly comparable
MMLU-Pro (Vals)
Not directly comparable
HealthBench (raw)
Not directly comparable
HealthBench (length-adjusted)
Not directly comparable
HealthBench Professional (raw)
Not directly comparable
HealthBench Professional
Not directly comparable
BioMysteryBench (human-solvable)
Not directly comparable
BioMysteryBench (human-difficult)
Not directly comparable
SpatialBench Verified
Not directly comparable
SingleCellBench
Not directly comparable
Protein Design
Not directly comparable
Morphology-to-molecule matching
Not directly comparable
Medicinal chemistry
Not directly comparable
Protein Design library ranking
Not directly comparable
De novo protein-binder design
Not directly comparable
Protocols (troubleshooting)
Not directly comparable
Protocols (understanding)
Not directly comparable
HLE w/o tools
Not directly comparable
PhysicianBench
Not directly comparable
MMLU-ProX
Not directly comparable
NOVA-63
Not directly comparable
INCLUDE
Not directly comparable
PolyMath
Not directly comparable
MAXIFE
Not directly comparable
GMMLU
Not directly comparable
MILU
Not directly comparable
AIME26
Not directly comparable
HMMT Feb 2025
Not directly comparable
HMMT Nov 2025
Not directly comparable
HMMT Feb 2026
Not directly comparable
MMAnswerBench
Not directly comparable
FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3)
Shared sourceClaude Sonnet 5.5 leads this result
FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4)
Shared sourceClaude Sonnet 5.5 leads this result
ArXivMath Aug. 2026 (no tools)
Not directly comparable
ArXivMath Aug. 2026 (tools)
Not directly comparable
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