# Claude Mythos 5.2 vs Claude Sonnet 5.5

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Mythos 5.2 and Claude Sonnet 5.5 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-mythos-5-2-vs-claude-sonnet-5-5
- Last updated: November 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 10
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Sonnet 5.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude Mythos 5.2 only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads overall 81.24 to 0.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Binary Exploitation Benchmark in Agentic, with scores of 148 and 48.
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Mythos 5.2 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Overall Score | null | 81.24 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 14 | 62 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $8.00 / $40.00 | $2.00 / $10.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Mythos 5.2 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 public-lane score: 68.3 (Supported · #12/132)

| Benchmark | Claude Mythos 5.2 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 70.50% | 70.60% | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 | 75.3% | 59.9% | Claude Mythos 5.2 |
| CVE Rediscovery | 89.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ExploitGym | 38.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Binary Exploitation Benchmark | 148 | 48 | Claude Mythos 5.2 |
| Terminal-Bench 4.1 | Coming soon | 63.90% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | Coming soon | 64.5% | Coming soon |
| DRACO | Coming soon | 87.0% | Coming soon |
| LAB all-pass (Harvey held-out) | Coming soon | 10.0% | Coming soon |
| LAB criterion-pass (Harvey held-out) | Coming soon | 93.1% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon Verified Pass@3 | Coming soon | 85.2% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon Verified Pass³ | Coming soon | 68.5% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon Verified avg. turns | Coming soon | 31.6 turns | Coming soon |
| AutomationBench (Zapier 1.0.6) | Coming soon | 44.70% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | Coming soon | 77.8% | Coming soon |
| Hermes Index | Coming soon | 53.1% | Coming soon |
| Hermes Bench | Coming soon | 73.5% | Coming soon |
| MazeBench | Coming soon | 8% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.1 | Coming soon | 80.1% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.1 Offline | Coming soon | 83.9% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Mythos 5.2 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 public-lane score: 81.4 (Supported · #3/158)

| Benchmark | Claude Mythos 5.2 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| FrontierCode 1.1 Main | Coming soon | 46.2% | Coming soon |
| CursorBench 4.0 | Coming soon | 55.5% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 81.3% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 90.3% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multimodal | Coming soon | 54.3% | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 71.0% | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Extended | Coming soon | 59.1% | Coming soon |
| ProgramBench | Coming soon | 79.7% | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE v2 | Coming soon | 61.9% | Coming soon |
| Bug Hunt Bench | Coming soon | 51.3 fixes | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 2.0 | Coming soon | 41.0% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Mythos 5.2 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 public-lane score: 76.1 (Supported · #8/158)

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Mythos 5.2 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 public-lane score: 77.7 (Estimated · #7/67)

| Benchmark | Claude Mythos 5.2 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Biomedical image analysis | 80.7% | 72.2% | Claude Mythos 5.2 |
| ExtractBench Pro | Coming soon | 32% | Coming soon |
| ExtractBench (LlamaIndex) | Coming soon | 94.68% | Coming soon |
| ParseBench | Coming soon | 69.21% | Coming soon |
| Chartography (no tools) | Coming soon | 61.6% | Coming soon |
| Chartography (tools) | Coming soon | 90.2% | Coming soon |
| BenchCAD Vision2Code (no tools) | Coming soon | 0.747 | Coming soon |
| BenchCAD Vision2Code (tools) | Coming soon | 0.963 | Coming soon |
| OfficeQA | Coming soon | 76.9% | Coming soon |
| OfficeQA Pro | Coming soon | 65.6% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Mythos 5.2 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 public-lane score: 79.9 (Supported · #8/179)

| Benchmark | Claude Mythos 5.2 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| De novo protein-binder design | 85.1% | 82.3% | Claude Mythos 5.2 |
| Protein Design | 64.6% | 51.0% | Claude Mythos 5.2 |
| SingleCellBench | 65.6% | 59.1% | Claude Mythos 5.2 |
| Protocols (troubleshooting) | 77.1% | 67.3% | Claude Mythos 5.2 |
| Protein Domain ID | 91.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Protein Mutation Attribution | 51.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Morphology-to-molecule matching | 35.2% | 25.0% | Claude Mythos 5.2 |
| Medicinal chemistry | 69.0% | 65.3% | Claude Mythos 5.2 |
| HealthBench (raw) | Coming soon | 69.4% | Coming soon |
| HealthBench (length-adjusted) | Coming soon | 65.4% | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Professional (raw) | Coming soon | 77.1% | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Professional | Coming soon | 69.2% | Coming soon |
| BioMysteryBench (human-solvable) | Coming soon | 89.2% | Coming soon |
| BioMysteryBench (human-difficult) | Coming soon | 44.7% | Coming soon |
| SpatialBench Verified | Coming soon | 72.5% | Coming soon |
| Protein Design library ranking | Coming soon | 54.8% | Coming soon |
| Protocols (understanding) | Coming soon | 66.6% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 56.9% | Coming soon |
| PhysicianBench | Coming soon | 63.2% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Mythos 5.2 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Mythos 5.2 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GMMLU | Coming soon | 92.1% | Coming soon |
| MILU | Coming soon | 91.6% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Mythos 5.2 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 public-lane score: 89.7 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude Mythos 5.2 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ArXivMath Aug. 2026 (no tools) | Coming soon | 86.8% | Coming soon |
| ArXivMath Aug. 2026 (tools) | Coming soon | 95.2% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | Coming soon | 88.772% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | Coming soon | 80.488% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude Mythos 5.2 or Claude Sonnet 5.5?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### How many benchmarks does Claude Mythos 5.2 cover on BenchLM?

Claude Mythos 5.2 currently has 14 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Claude Sonnet 5.5 cover on BenchLM?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 currently has 62 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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- [Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Claude Mythos 5](/compare/claude-mythos-5-vs-claude-sonnet-5-5)
- [Claude Mythos 5.2 vs Claude Mythos 5.1](/compare/claude-mythos-5-1-vs-claude-mythos-5-2)
- [Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Claude Mythos 5.1](/compare/claude-mythos-5-1-vs-claude-sonnet-5-5)

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