# Claude Opus 4.6 vs Claude Sonnet 4.6

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

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-opus-4-6-vs-claude-sonnet-4-6
- Last updated: October 17, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 17
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Opus 4.6 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude Sonnet 4.6 only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Claude Opus 4.6 leads overall 62.39 to 55.89.
- The clearest category separation is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 74.5 for Claude Opus 4.6 and 58.7 for Claude Sonnet 4.6.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench 2.0 in Agentic, with scores of 65.4% and 59.1%.
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Claude Opus 4.6 also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Opus 4.6 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 200K |
| Overall Score | 62.39 | 55.89 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 36 | 28 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $5.00 / $25.00 | $3.00 / $15.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Claude Sonnet 4.6
- Claude Opus 4.6 public-lane score: 45.7 (Supported · #57/128)
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 46.3 (Supported · #55/128)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 65.4% | 59.1% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| BrowseComp | 83.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | 72.7% | 72.1% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| AndroidWorld | 62.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 70.4% | 67.8% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| DeepSearchQA | 73.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CyberGym | 66.6% | 65.2% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| Gert Labs | 61.85% | 62.92% | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
| ResearchClawBench | 19.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| JobBench | 36.7% | 36.9% | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
| ApprenticeBench | 5% | 2% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| OSWorld 2.0 | Coming soon | 8.3% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 57.3% | Coming soon |
| MazeBench | Coming soon | 0% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Claude Opus 4.6
- Claude Opus 4.6 public-lane score: 46.1 (Supported · #52/150)
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 44.7 (Supported · #54/150)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 80.8% | 79.6% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| SWE-bench Verified* | 75.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench Pro | 70.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 53.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-Rebench | 65.3% | 60.7% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| React Native Evals | 84.1% | 80.6% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 65.4% | 59.1% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| Vibe Code Bench | 57.57% | 51.48% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Main | 26.9% | 24.3% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| cursorBench31 | Coming soon | 48.8% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 82.1% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 77.4% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.6 public-lane score: 71.9 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 62.8 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | Coming soon | 58.3% | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-1 | Coming soon | 86.00% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Opus 4.6 public-lane score: 74.5 (#25/54)
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 58.7 (#45/54)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | 77.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ERQA | 51.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | 83.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (MM) | 64.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 77.4% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Opus 4.6 public-lane score: 59 (Estimated · #52/184)
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 55.4 (Supported · #58/184)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 91.3% | 89.9% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| GPQA-D | 89.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | 95% | 95% | Tie |
| MMLU-Pro | 82% | 79.2% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| MMLU-Pro (Arcee) | 89.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 53% | 49% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| HLE w/o tools | 40% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Hard | 14.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (Text) | 52.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 85.6% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 87.3% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Opus 4.6 public-lane score: 52.4 (#87/148)
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 48 (#99/148)

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.6 public-lane score: 69.1 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME25 (Arcee) | 99.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 65.965% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 26.829% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude Opus 4.6 or Claude Sonnet 4.6?

Claude Opus 4.6 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Sonnet 4.6?

The widest category gap is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 74.5 for Claude Opus 4.6 and 58.7 for Claude Sonnet 4.6.

### How many benchmarks does Claude Opus 4.6 cover on BenchLM?

Claude Opus 4.6 currently has 36 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Claude Sonnet 4.6 cover on BenchLM?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 currently has 28 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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