# BTL-4 vs Claude 4 Sonnet

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for BTL-4 and Claude 4 Sonnet across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/btl-4-vs-claude-4-sonnet
- Last updated: September 24, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 1
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.7

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: BTL-4 and Claude 4 Sonnet share only 1 sourced benchmark row.

## Summary

- Only 1 shared sourced benchmark row is available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- BTL-4 has the lower published output-token price.
- BTL-4 has the larger published context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | BTL-4 | Claude 4 Sonnet |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Bad Theory Labs | Anthropic |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 262K | 200K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | 36.08 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 3 | 3 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $3.00 / $15.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- BTL-4 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Claude 4 Sonnet public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | BTL-4 | Claude 4 Sonnet | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BFCL v4 | 73.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 39.66% | Coming soon |
| JobBench | Coming soon | 18.4% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- BTL-4 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Claude 4 Sonnet public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | BTL-4 | Claude 4 Sonnet | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 78.4% | 72.7% | BTL-4 |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 66.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- BTL-4 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Claude 4 Sonnet public-lane score: 52.3 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- BTL-4 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Claude 4 Sonnet public-lane score: 52 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- BTL-4 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Claude 4 Sonnet public-lane score: 36.9 (Estimated · #99/158)

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- BTL-4 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Claude 4 Sonnet public-lane score: 52 (#78/124)

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between BTL-4 and Claude 4 Sonnet?

Not yet. The models share only 1 sourced benchmark row, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

## Related Comparisons

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

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- [BTL-4 profile](/models/btl-4)
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