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Claude Sonnet 5.5

71 benchmarks · 164 observations · 79 sources · released 2026-09-28

Scores at a glance

71 benchmarks · large dot: Claude Sonnet 5.5; small dots: closest models where reported

833.061811.82

Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback) · AA-Briefcase v1.1 · overall Elo ↗

4.9877.51

Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback) · AutomationBench-AA · guardrail-gated objective score ↗

7.432.6

Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback) · GDP.pdf · all-pass ↗

1 more reported result

31.4% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max) · GDP.pdf · GDP.pdf score · % · Epoch AI · GDP.pdf ↗

3.9246.44

Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback) · FrontierCode 2.0 · AA implementation ↗

-8.2748.13

Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback) · AA-Omniscience v1.1 · error-penalized index ↗

1 more reported result

32.30 index · Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback) · AA-Omniscience · error-penalized score · Artificial Analysis ↗

1071.981866.27

Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback) · GDPval-AA v2.1 · Elo ↗

AA-3D ↗1198.83 Elo
572.551198.83

Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback) · AA-3D · Elo ↗

23.7560

Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback) · AA-AnalystAgent · strict score ↗

42.9466.9

Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback) · SciCode · AA implementation ↗

5 more reported results

61% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max) · SciCode · Score · % · Epoch AI · SciCode ↗

57.29% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 (xhigh) · SciCode · Score · % · Epoch AI · SciCode ↗

53.7% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 (high) · SciCode · Score · % · Epoch AI · SciCode ↗

52.89% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 (medium) · SciCode · Score · % · Epoch AI · SciCode ↗

49.07% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 (low) · SciCode · Score · % · Epoch AI · SciCode ↗

6.1141.67

Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback) · MLCR-AA · overall ↗

50.765.98

Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback) · HealthBench · HealthBench Professional · length-adjusted ↗

483.14

Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback) · CritPt v2 · code tools ↗

4.5732.86

Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback) · CritPt · original ↗

5 more reported results

31.43% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max) · CritPt · Accuracy · % · Epoch AI · CritPt ↗

31.14% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 (xhigh) · CritPt · Accuracy · % · Epoch AI · CritPt ↗

24.57% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 (high) · CritPt · Accuracy · % · Epoch AI · CritPt ↗

16.86% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 (medium) · CritPt · Accuracy · % · Epoch AI · CritPt ↗

11.43% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 (low) · CritPt · Accuracy · % · Epoch AI · CritPt ↗

9.2896.4

Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max) · GPQA diamond · Best score (across scorers) · % ↗

076

Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max) · Chess Puzzles · Best score (across scorers) · % ↗

4.3854.05

Claude Sonnet 5.5 (xhigh) · WeirdML v3 · Max performance · % ↗

025.67

Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max) · SpireClimb · Best score (across scorers) · % ↗

19.7263.57

Claude Sonnet 5.5 · MedCode · Accuracy ↗

1556

Claude Sonnet 5.5 · Urgent safety · share of applicable ratings marked fail ↗

2 more reported results

43% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · Health advice · share of applicable ratings marked fail · Vals AI · SAFE-Teen ↗

37% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · Relationship boundaries · share of applicable ratings marked fail · Vals AI · SAFE-Teen ↗

1.6712.03

Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Overall · intended grading ↗

53 more reported results

9.7% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Eight-domain subset · intended grading · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

22.9% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Recursive Self-Improvement · intended grading · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

3.5% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Chip Design · intended grading · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

3.7% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Cybersecurity · intended grading · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

5.1% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Biology · intended grading · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

0.0% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Finance · intended grading · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

0.0% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Legal · intended grading · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

13.0% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Quant Trading · intended grading · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

10.0% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Hardware Design · intended grading · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

16.7% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Materials Science · intended grading · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

4.3% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Alignment · intended grading · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

11.1% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Software Engineering · intended grading · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

16.9% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Overall · partial credit · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

20.7% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Eight-domain subset · partial credit · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

22.9% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Recursive Self-Improvement · partial credit · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

10.2% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Chip Design · partial credit · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

3.7% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Cybersecurity · partial credit · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

12.0% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Biology · partial credit · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

44.8% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Finance · partial credit · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

27.8% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Legal · partial credit · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

13.0% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Quant Trading · partial credit · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

10.0% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Hardware Design · partial credit · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

26.1% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Materials Science · partial credit · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

4.3% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Alignment · partial credit · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

11.1% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Software Engineering · partial credit · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

6.7% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Aria · Chip Design · intended grading · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

0.0% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Arcverex · Chip Design · intended grading · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

3.9% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Ergodex · Chip Design · intended grading · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

3.7% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Arithmetic · Cybersecurity · intended grading · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

5.1% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · LatchBio · Biology · intended grading · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

0.0% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Living Context · Finance · intended grading · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

0.0% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Chakra · Legal · intended grading · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

13.0% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Third Moment · Quant Trading · intended grading · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

22.9% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Extrapolate · Recursive Self-Improvement · intended grading · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

10.0% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Beautiful Machines · Hardware Design · intended grading · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

18.3% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · ValenceForge · Materials Science · intended grading · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

15.1% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Emulated · Materials Science · intended grading · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

4.3% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Fleet · Alignment · intended grading · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

11.1% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Datacurve · Software Engineering · intended grading · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

26.6% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Aria · Chip Design · partial credit · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

0.0% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Arcverex · Chip Design · partial credit · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

3.9% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Ergodex · Chip Design · partial credit · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

3.7% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Arithmetic · Cybersecurity · partial credit · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

12.0% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · LatchBio · Biology · partial credit · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

44.8% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Living Context · Finance · partial credit · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

27.8% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Chakra · Legal · partial credit · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

13.0% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Third Moment · Quant Trading · partial credit · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

22.9% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Extrapolate · Recursive Self-Improvement · partial credit · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

10.0% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Beautiful Machines · Hardware Design · partial credit · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

33.0% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · ValenceForge · Materials Science · partial credit · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

19.1% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Emulated · Materials Science · partial credit · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

4.3% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Fleet · Alignment · partial credit · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

11.1% · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · GDPx v1.0 · Datacurve · Software Engineering · partial credit · GDPx v1.0 — SemiAnalysis ↗

Closest models by score

Similar positions on shared benchmark leaderboards. Smaller gaps are closer.

18.6 percentile-point gap

57 of 61 shared benchmark comparisons

How similarity is measured

Mean absolute gap in percentile positions on shared benchmark settings; lower is closer. At least 60% overlap is required, with a minimum of three when available. Independent evaluations are used when there are at least three; otherwise published report comparisons are used. Repeated model observations within one setting are averaged before ranking. Writing-style traits and composite indices are excluded. This describes similarity, not an overall quality ranking.

Sources

Every plotted observation links to its evaluation. Reported configurations, benchmark versions and task subsets can differ; similarity describes shared scores, not training lift.

  1. Arena leaderboard — WebDev evaluation ↗

    Arena

  2. AA-3D: Interactive 3D Experience Benchmark | Artificial Analysis ↗

    Artificial Analysis

  3. AA-AnalystAgent Benchmark | Artificial Analysis ↗

    Artificial Analysis

  4. AA-Briefcase v1.1: Agentic Knowledge Work Benchmark | Artificial Analysis ↗

    Artificial Analysis

  5. Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0 — Artificial Analysis ↗

    Artificial Analysis

  6. AA-LCR v1.1: Long Context Reasoning Benchmark | Artificial Analysis ↗

    Artificial Analysis

  7. AutomationBench-AA: Agentic SaaS Workflow Benchmark | Artificial Analysis ↗

    Artificial Analysis

  8. CritPt Benchmark | Artificial Analysis ↗

    Artificial Analysis

  9. CritPt v2 Benchmark | Artificial Analysis ↗

    Artificial Analysis

  10. CritPt v2 — Hard Subset — Artificial Analysis ↗

    Artificial Analysis

  11. FrontierCode 1.1 Benchmark | Artificial Analysis ↗

    Artificial Analysis

  12. FrontierCode 2.0 Benchmark — Artificial Analysis ↗

    Artificial Analysis

  13. GDP.pdf Benchmark | Artificial Analysis ↗

    Artificial Analysis

  14. GDPval-AA v2.1 Benchmark | Artificial Analysis ↗

    Artificial Analysis

  15. Harvey LAB-AA v1.1 Benchmark | Artificial Analysis ↗

    Artificial Analysis

  16. HealthBench Professional Benchmark | Artificial Analysis ↗

    Artificial Analysis

  17. HLE-Diamond Benchmark — Artificial Analysis ↗

    Artificial Analysis

  18. Humanity's Last Exam Benchmark | Artificial Analysis ↗

    Artificial Analysis

  19. MLCR-AA: Medical Long Context Reasoning Benchmark | Artificial Analysis ↗

    Artificial Analysis

  20. AA-Omniscience v1.1: Knowledge and Hallucination Benchmark — Artificial Analysis ↗

    Artificial Analysis

  21. SciCode Benchmark | Artificial Analysis ↗

    Artificial Analysis

  22. Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 Benchmark | Artificial Analysis ↗

    Artificial Analysis

  23. Terminal-Bench 4.0 Benchmark | Artificial Analysis ↗

    Artificial Analysis

  24. FrontierCode Leaderboard ↗

    Cognition

  25. DTBench — Conceptual Reasoning Index ↗

    Conceptual Reasoning Index

  26. LMCA — Conceptual Reasoning Index ↗

    Conceptual Reasoning Index

  27. Cursor · CursorBench ↗

    Cursor

  28. APEX-Agents ↗

    Epoch AI

  29. Chess Puzzles ↗

    Epoch AI

  30. CritPt v1 ↗

    Epoch AI

  31. FrontierMath Erdős ↗

    Epoch AI

  32. FrontierMath Tier 4 (v2) ↗

    Epoch AI

  33. FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (v2) ↗

    Epoch AI

  34. Furniture Assembly Benchmark ↗

    Epoch AI

  35. GPQA Diamond ↗

    Epoch AI

  36. Humanity's Last Exam ↗

    Epoch AI

  37. Mystery Game Puzzles ↗

    Epoch AI

  38. OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 ↗

    Epoch AI

  39. SimpleQA Verified ↗

    Epoch AI

  40. SpireClimb ↗

    Epoch AI

  41. Vending Bench 2 — methodology and published results ↗

    Epoch AI · 2026

  42. AI benchmarks & capabilities ↗

    Epoch AI

  43. GDPx v1.0: The General Agentic Benchmark — SemiAnalysis ↗

    SemiAnalysis · 2026

  44. WeirdML ↗

    Håvard Tveit Ihle

  45. Scale Labs — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Scale Labs / SEAL · 2026

  46. SWE-Bench Pro V2 — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Scale Labs / SEAL · 2026

  47. SWE-Bench Pro V2 — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Scale Labs / SEAL · 2026

  48. GDP.pdf Benchmark | Surge AI ↗

    Surge AI

  49. FrontierSWE — software engineering benchmark ↗

    FrontierSWE

  50. BioMysteryBench — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  51. Code Migration v1 — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  52. Code Migration — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  53. CyberBench — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  54. Excel Modeling Benchmark v1 — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  55. Excel Modeling Benchmark — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  56. Finance Agent v2 — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  57. Finance Agent — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  58. Vals Finance Index — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  59. HLAB-Vals-1.1 — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  60. Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark v1 — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  61. IOI — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  62. Vals Legal Index — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  63. Legal Research Bench — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  64. MedCode — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  65. MedScribe — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  66. SAFE-Teen: Teen Mental Health & Safety | Vals AI A conversation branches after the chatbot turns down a request — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  67. MysteryMechanism — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  68. ProgramBench — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  69. ProofBench — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  70. Public Benefits Bench — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  71. SAGE — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  72. Vals Science Index — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  73. SRE Bench — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  74. SWE-bench Multimodal — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  75. Tax Agent Bench — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  76. Terminal-Bench 4.0 — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  77. Terminal-Bench-Science — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  78. Vals Index — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  79. Vibe Code Bench — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

Names used in source tables

Claude Sonnet 5.5 · Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback) · Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Mini-SWE-agent) · Claude Sonnet 5.5 (OpenHands) · Claude Sonnet 5.5 (high) · Claude Sonnet 5.5 (low) · Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max) · Claude Sonnet 5.5 (medium) · Claude Sonnet 5.5 (xhigh) · Sonnet 5.5 (mini-swe-agent) xhigh · claude-sonnet-5-5