Model profile
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Evidence coverage
33 of 321 tracked benchmarks are published. 18 are verified and 15 provisional. 7 of 8 categories are measured.
- Published / tracked
- 33 / 321
- Verified
- 18
- Provisional
- 15
- Categories with evidence
- 7 / 8
Evidence by category
- Agentic8 benchmarksMixed evidence
- Coding7 benchmarksMixed evidence
- Reasoning2 benchmarksReported
- Knowledge10 benchmarksMixed evidence
- Math2 benchmarksVerified
- Multilingual0 benchmarksNot measured
- Multimodal3 benchmarksMixed evidence
- Inst. Following1 benchmarkReported
Claude Sonnet 4.6 ranks #32 out of 200 models on the public leaderboard with an overall score of 65.07/100. It also ranks #27 out of 99 on the verified leaderboard. While not a frontier model, it offers specific advantages depending on the use case.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a proprietary model with a 200K token context window. It processes queries without explicit chain-of-thought reasoning, offering faster response times and lower token usage.
This profile currently has 33 of 321 tracked benchmarks. BenchLM only exposes non-generated benchmark rows publicly, so missing categories stay blank until a sourced evaluation is available.
Its strongest category is Knowledge (#15), while its weakest is Agentic (#42). This performance profile makes it particularly effective for knowledge-intensive tasks like research, analysis, and factual Q&A.
Peer position
Exact provisional scores and ranks for the closest listed peers. A score can appear before a model clears the evidence threshold for a rank, so equal scores can have different rank states.
Range 64.18–65.32
- Claude Sonnet 5AnthropicCompare#2965.32Claude Sonnet 5 is #29 with a score of 65.32.
- Qwen3.6 PlusAlibabaCompare#3065.2Qwen3.6 Plus is #30 with a score of 65.2.
- Grok 4.3xAICompare#3165.1Grok 4.3 is #31 with a score of 65.1.
- Claude Sonnet 4.6Current modelAnthropic#3265.07Claude Sonnet 4.6 is #32 with a score of 65.07.
- Gemini 3.5 FlashGoogleCompare#3364.75Gemini 3.5 Flash is #33 with a score of 64.75.
- Claude Opus 4.5AnthropicCompare#3464.22Claude Opus 4.5 is #34 with a score of 64.22.
- Claude Opus 4.6 (Adaptive)AnthropicCompare#3564.18Claude Opus 4.6 (Adaptive) is #35 with a score of 64.18.
Category percentile
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Relative position among models eligible for each sourced category. A higher percentile means a stronger position within that category's ranked cohort; 100 is highest.
- Knowledge73%Eligible cohort rank #15 of 52Category score 79.7
- Coding82%Eligible cohort rank #23 of 122Category score 59.6
- Agentic65%Eligible cohort rank #42 of 119Category score 51.2
Category evidence
Scores and ranks appear only where this model has published benchmark evidence. Categories without displayable source records remain not measured.
| Category | Score | Rank | Percentile | Weight | Benchmarks | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AgenticRank #42 of 119Percentile 65thWeight 22%8 benchmarksMixed sources | 51.2 | #42 of 119 | 65th | 22% | 8 benchmarks | Mixed sources |
| CodingRank #23 of 122Percentile 82ndWeight 20%7 benchmarksMixed sources | 59.6 | #23 of 122 | 82nd | 20% | 7 benchmarks | Mixed sources |
| ReasoningRank Not rankedWeight 17%2 benchmarksReported | 74.3 | Not ranked | Not available | 17% | 2 benchmarks | Reported |
| KnowledgeRank #15 of 52Percentile 73rdWeight 12%10 benchmarksMixed sources | 79.7 | #15 of 52 | 73rd | 12% | 10 benchmarks | Mixed sources |
| MathRank Not rankedWeight 5%2 benchmarksVerified | 49.5 | Not ranked | Not available | 5% | 2 benchmarks | Verified |
| MultilingualWeight 7%0 benchmarksNot measured | Not measured | Not ranked | Not available | 7% | 0 benchmarks | Not measured |
| MultimodalRank Not rankedWeight 12%3 benchmarksMixed sources | 56.5 | Not ranked | Not available | 12% | 3 benchmarks | Mixed sources |
| Inst. FollowingRank Not rankedWeight 5%1 benchmarkReported | 81.1 | Not ranked | Not available | 5% | 1 benchmark | Reported |
Chatbot Arena performance
Scroll horizontally to inspect confidence intervals and vote counts.
| View | Elo | Confidence interval | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Text Overall | 1471 | ±3.9 | 54,975 |
| Coding | 1528 | ±6.3 | 15,132 |
| Math | 1464 | ±11.3 | 2,994 |
| Instruction Following | 1477 | ±5.8 | 17,772 |
| Creative Writing | 1450 | ±7.4 | 9,053 |
| Multi-turn | 1484 | ±7.1 | 9,930 |
| Hard Prompts | 1504 | ±4.8 | 35,237 |
| Hard Prompts (English) | 1509 | ±6.0 | 17,404 |
| Longer Query | 1494 | ±5.7 | 22,658 |
Benchmark Details
Rows below have a displayable published verification record. Each source link and provenance note remains in the page HTML while its category is closed. Source-unverified manual rows and generated rows stay hidden.
Agentic8 benchmarks
τ²-Bench Tool-Agent-User Evaluation
Gert Labs Composite Game Benchmark
Coding7 benchmarks
Software Engineering Benchmark Verified
Vibe Code Bench v1.1
Artificial Analysis SciCode
Reasoning2 benchmarks
Artificial Analysis Long Context Reasoning
Critical Physics Tasks
Knowledge10 benchmarks
Humanity's Last Exam
Massive Multitask Language Understanding Professional
Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&A
SuperGPQA: Scaling LLM Evaluation Across 285 Graduate Disciplines
Artificial Analysis GPQA Diamond
Artificial Analysis Humanity's Last Exam
Artificial Analysis Omniscience Index
Artificial Analysis Omniscience Accuracy
Artificial Analysis Omniscience Hallucination Rate
Math2 benchmarks
FrontierMath v2 Tiers 1-3
FrontierMath v2 Tier 4
Multimodal3 benchmarks
CharXiv Reasoning
Artificial Analysis MMMU-Pro
Design Arena Website Elo
Inst. Following1 benchmark
Artificial Analysis IFBench
Frequently Asked Questions
How does Claude Sonnet 4.6 perform overall in AI benchmarks?
Claude Sonnet 4.6 currently ranks #32 out of 200 models on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard with an overall score of 65.07. It also ranks #27 out of 99 on the verified leaderboard. It is created by Anthropic. Its published context window is 200K.
Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 good for knowledge and understanding?
Claude Sonnet 4.6 ranks #15 out of 52 models in knowledge and understanding benchmarks with an average score of 79.7. There are stronger options in this category.
Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 good for coding and programming?
Claude Sonnet 4.6 ranks #23 out of 122 models in coding and programming benchmarks with an average score of 59.6. There are stronger options in this category.
Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 good for mathematics?
Claude Sonnet 4.6 has visible benchmark coverage in mathematics, but BenchLM does not currently assign it a global category rank there.
Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 good for reasoning and logic?
Claude Sonnet 4.6 has visible benchmark coverage in reasoning and logic, but BenchLM does not currently assign it a global category rank there.
Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 good for agentic tool use and computer tasks?
Claude Sonnet 4.6 ranks #42 out of 119 models in agentic tool use and computer tasks benchmarks with an average score of 51.2. There are stronger options in this category.
Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 good for multimodal and grounded tasks?
Claude Sonnet 4.6 has visible benchmark coverage in multimodal and grounded tasks, but BenchLM does not currently assign it a global category rank there.
Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 good for instruction following?
Claude Sonnet 4.6 has visible benchmark coverage in instruction following, but BenchLM does not currently assign it a global category rank there.
Does Claude Sonnet 4.6 have full benchmark coverage on BenchLM?
Not yet. Claude Sonnet 4.6 currently has 33 published benchmark scores out of the 321 benchmarks BenchLM tracks. BenchLM only exposes non-generated public benchmark rows, so missing categories stay blank until a sourced evaluation is available.
What is the context window size of Claude Sonnet 4.6?
Claude Sonnet 4.6 has a published context window of 200K, which determines how much text it can process in a single interaction.
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