Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Holo3-35B-A3B

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

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

Claude Sonnet 4.5· Holo3-35B-A3B

Quick Verdict

Pick Holo3-35B-A3B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude Sonnet 4.5 only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 200K context window.

Holo3-35B-A3B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 78 to 69. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Holo3-35B-A3B's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 77.8 against 60. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is OSWorld-Verified, 61.4% to 77.8%.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $3.00 input / $15.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.25 input / $1.80 output per 1M tokens for Holo3-35B-A3B. That is roughly 8.3x on output cost alone. Claude Sonnet 4.5 gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 64K for Holo3-35B-A3B.

Operational tradeoffs

Price$3.00 / $15.00$0.25 / $1.80
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context200K64K

Decision framing

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Runtime metrics show N/A when BenchLM does not have a sourced snapshot for that exact model. The scoring rules and freshness policy are documented on the methodology page.

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Holo3-35B-A3B
AgenticHolo3-35B-A3B wins
Terminal-Bench 2.050%
BrowseComp74%
OSWorld-Verified61.4%77.8%
Coding
HumanEval87%
SWE-bench Verified77.2%
LiveCodeBench53%
SWE-bench Pro60%
SWE-Rebench60%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro95%
OfficeQA Pro87%
Reasoning
MuSR89%
BBH88%
LongBench v282%
MRCRv281%
ARC-AGI-213.6%
Knowledge
MMLU95%
GPQA83.4%
SuperGPQA91%
MMLU-Pro84%
HLE21%
FrontierScience84%
SimpleQA91%
Instruction Following
IFEval90%
Multilingual
MGSM91%
MMLU-ProX87%
Mathematics
AIME 202397%
AIME 202499%
AIME 202587%
HMMT Feb 202393%
HMMT Feb 202495%
HMMT Feb 202594%
BRUMO 202596%
MATH-50088%
Frequently Asked Questions (2)

Which is better, Claude Sonnet 4.5 or Holo3-35B-A3B?

Holo3-35B-A3B is ahead overall, 78 to 69. The biggest single separator in this matchup is OSWorld-Verified, where the scores are 61.4% and 77.8%.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Claude Sonnet 4.5 or Holo3-35B-A3B?

Holo3-35B-A3B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 77.8 versus 60. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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