# BTL-3 vs Claude Sonnet 4.6

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for BTL-3 and Claude Sonnet 4.6 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/btl-3-vs-claude-sonnet-4-6
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 0
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

No benchmark verdict yet: there is no shared sourced benchmark row for BTL-3 and Claude Sonnet 4.6.

## Summary

- BTL-3 and Claude Sonnet 4.6 do not currently share a sourced benchmark row. The mirror therefore compares metadata, pricing, context windows, and each model's separately reported coverage without naming a benchmark winner.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | BTL-3 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Bad Theory Labs | Anthropic |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 262K | 200K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | 62.96 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 3 | 25 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $3.00 / $15.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- BTL-3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 44 (Supported · #93/152)

| Benchmark | BTL-3 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BFCL v4 | 88.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 59.1% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | Coming soon | 72.1% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 67.8% | Coming soon |
| CyberGym | Coming soon | 65.2% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 62.92% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | Coming soon | 8.3% | Coming soon |
| JobBench | Coming soon | 36.9% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 57.3% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- BTL-3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 52.2 (Supported · #48/151)

| Benchmark | BTL-3 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HumanEval | 95.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 88.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 79.6% | Coming soon |
| SWE-Rebench | Coming soon | 60.7% | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | Coming soon | 80.6% | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | Coming soon | 51.48% | Coming soon |
| cursorBench31 | Coming soon | 48.8% | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Main | Coming soon | 24.3% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 82.1% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 77.4% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- BTL-3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 54.1 (#33/48)

| Benchmark | BTL-3 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 77.4% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- BTL-3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 67.9 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- BTL-3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 55.8 (Supported · #51/183)

| Benchmark | BTL-3 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | Coming soon | 89.9% | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 95% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 79.2% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 49% | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 85.6% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 87.3% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- BTL-3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 48.2 (#86/123)

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- BTL-3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 49 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | BTL-3 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | Coming soon | 32.400% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | Coming soon | 8.300% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Can I compare BTL-3 and Claude Sonnet 4.6 on BenchLM yet?

Not fully yet. BenchLM is tracking both models, but sourced benchmark coverage is still incomplete for a fair score-level comparison.

### Why does this page show "coming soon" values?

BenchLM only calls winners when public benchmark coverage is available on both sides of the comparison.

## Related Comparisons

- [BTL-3 vs BTL-4](/compare/btl-3-vs-btl-4)
- [Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs BTL-4](/compare/btl-4-vs-claude-sonnet-4-6)
- [BTL-3 vs BTL-4 Compact](/compare/btl-3-vs-btl-4-compact)
- [Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs BTL-4 Compact](/compare/btl-4-compact-vs-claude-sonnet-4-6)

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