# Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs o3-mini

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Sonnet 4.5 and o3-mini across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-sonnet-4-5-vs-o3-mini
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 2
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Claude Sonnet 4.5 and o3-mini share only 2 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 2 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- o3-mini has the lower published output-token price.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | o3-mini |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 200K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 53.82 | 46.83 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 11 | 5 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $3.00 / $15.00 | $1.10 / $4.40 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Sonnet 4.5 public-lane score: 44.2 (Estimated · #91/152)
- o3-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | o3-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 50% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | 61.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | 17.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 48.51% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| JobBench | 27.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Sonnet 4.5 public-lane score: 50.6 (Estimated · #54/151)
- o3-mini public-lane score: 45.3 (Estimated · #88/151)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | o3-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 77.2% | 49.3% | Claude Sonnet 4.5 |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Sonnet 4.5 public-lane score: 19.1 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- o3-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | o3-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 13.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Sonnet 4.5 public-lane score: 51.2 (Estimated · #73/183)
- o3-mini public-lane score: 39.7 (Supported · #134/183)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | o3-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 83.4% | 77.2% | Claude Sonnet 4.5 |
| MMLU | Coming soon | 86.9% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Sonnet 4.5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- o3-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | o3-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | Coming soon | 93.9% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Sonnet 4.5 public-lane score: 34.8 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- o3-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | o3-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | 87% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 13.495% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 4.167% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME 2024 | Coming soon | 87.3% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Claude Sonnet 4.5 and o3-mini?

Not yet. The models share only 2 sourced benchmark rows, 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.

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- [o3-mini vs Claude Sonnet 4.5 Thinking](/compare/claude-sonnet-4-5-thinking-vs-o3-mini)
- [Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs o3](/compare/claude-sonnet-4-5-vs-o3)
- [o3-mini vs o3](/compare/o3-vs-o3-mini)

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