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VERIFIEDOct 142026
Is Claude Sonnet 4 state of the art?
No.Best recorded rank is #7 in Long context.

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Sonnet 4 from Anthropic. Best recorded rank is #7 in Long context. Last listed at #7 in Long context on 2025-06-18.

Computed automaticallyas of Oct 14, 2026methodology v1.0confidence: low
View as of point-in-time crowns
Why

The ruling, in plain English

Last listed at #9 in General LLM on 2025-06-18.

Receipts

Evidence

Scores come from the latest ingested snapshot
SourceScoreDateTypeReceipt
LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall)
claude-sonnet-4-20250514
1394.1802188835286 1388.9–1398.92025-06-18INDEP.snap_9a4e972507c9
LMArena Text (style-controlled, hard prompts)
claude-sonnet-4-20250514
1407.3005513847725 1397.4–1414.92025-07-07INDEP.snap_9a4e972507c9
Humanity's Last Exam
claude-sonnet-4-20250514_unknown
0.0776 0.1–0.12025-05-22INDEP.snap_e03cddec1fbb
GPQA Diamond
claude-sonnet-4-20250514
0.6666666666666666 0.6–0.72025-05-22INDEP.snap_e03cddec1fbb
LMArena Text (style-controlled, coding)
claude-sonnet-4-20250514
1437.4812355280947 1427.6–1445.12025-07-15INDEP.snap_9a4e972507c9
LMArena Text (style-controlled, longer query)
claude-sonnet-4-20250514
1396.1314979466902 1389.9–1403.32025-06-18INDEP.snap_9a4e972507c9
LMArena Vision (style-controlled)
claude-sonnet-4-20250514
1170.6345627351689 1157.2–1182.42025-06-11INDEP.snap_ae2e1c2545e6
ARC-AGI
claude-sonnet-4-20250514
0.23832025-05-22INDEP.snap_e03cddec1fbb
Reign history

Where it sits in the succession

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No closed or open crown interval includes this model.

Honest about the gaps

Where it is not the crown

CategoryThis modelWhy
General LLMNot SOTA · #9Last listed at #9 in General LLM on 2025-06-18.
ReasoningNot SOTA · #8Last listed at #8 in Reasoning on 2025-07-07.
MathNot SOTA · #34Ranked #34 in Math.
ScienceNot SOTA · #119Last listed at #119 in Science on 2025-05-22. That board does not award a crown.
CodingNot SOTA · #8Last listed at #8 in Coding on 2025-07-15.
Long contextNot SOTA · #7Last listed at #7 in Long context on 2025-06-18.
VisionNot SOTA · #11Last listed at #11 in Vision on 2025-06-11.
Abstraction (ARC)Not SOTA · #84Last listed at #84 in Abstraction (ARC) on 2025-05-22. That board does not award a crown.