# Is Claude Opus 4.6 SOTA?

**Close.** Near-SOTA in Reasoning, rank #2.

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 from Anthropic. Near-SOTA in Reasoning, rank #2. Close in Reasoning: rank #2, 1.4 percentile points behind the leader.

As of Oct 14, 2026. Methodology v1.0. Computed automatically.

- General LLM: NEAR_SOTA #4 — Close in General LLM: rank #4, 2.1 percentile points behind the leader.
- Reasoning: NEAR_SOTA #2 — Close in Reasoning: rank #2, 1.4 percentile points behind the leader.
- Math: RANKED #11 — Ranked #11 in Math.
- Science: RANKED #32 — Last listed at #32 in Science on 2026-02-05. That board does not award a crown.
- Coding: INSUFFICIENT_DATA — #4 on LMArena Text (style-controlled, coding); missing Terminal-Bench 4.0 and SWE-bench Pro V2 HARD
- Coding › Web dev: WAS_SOTA #34 — Was SOTA in Coding › Web dev from 2026-04-21 to 2026-05-19. Currently ranked #34.
- Long context: NEAR_SOTA #2 — Close in Long context: rank #2, 0.7 percentile points behind the leader.
- Vision: INSUFFICIENT_DATA — #2 on LMArena Vision (style-controlled); missing GDP.pdf
- Factuality: NEAR_SOTA #3 — Close in Factuality: rank #3, 2.3 percentile points behind the leader.

## Long context

https://isitsota.com/c/long-context