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VERIFIEDOct 142026
Is Claude Sonnet 4.5 state of the art?
It used to be.Was SOTA in General LLM.

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Sonnet 4.5 from Anthropic. Was SOTA in General LLM. Was SOTA in General LLM from 2025-10-03 to 2025-10-17.

Computed automaticallyas of Oct 14, 2026methodology v1.0confidence: medium
General LLMWas SOTAWAS_SOTA · 376dReasoningWas SOTAWAS_SOTA · 362dMathNot SOTA · #23#23 · 0dMath · paretoNot SOTA · #23#23 · 0dScienceNot SOTA · #102#102 · 0dCodingNot SOTA · #5#5 · 0dCoding › Web devWas SOTAWAS_SOTA · 336dLong contextWas SOTAWAS_SOTA · 258dFactualityNot SOTA · #67#67 · 0dAbstraction (ARC)Not SOTA · #82#82 · 0d
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Why

The ruling, in plain English

Was SOTA in General LLM from 2025-10-03 to 2025-10-17.

Receipts

Evidence

Scores come from the latest ingested snapshot
SourceScoreDateTypeReceipt
Humanity's Last Exam
claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929_unknown
0.13720000000000002 0.1–0.22025-09-29INDEP.snap_e03cddec1fbb
GPQA Diamond
claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929
0.7373737373737373 0.7–0.82025-09-29INDEP.snap_e03cddec1fbb
LMArena Text (style-controlled, coding)
claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929
1508.018610703438 1501.0–1515.12026-02-17INDEP.snap_9a4e972507c9
SimpleQA Verified
claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929
0.237 0.2–0.32025-09-29INDEP.snap_e03cddec1fbb
ARC-AGI
claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929
0.2552025-09-29INDEP.snap_e03cddec1fbb
Reign history

Where it sits in the succession

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General LLM
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
GPT-4O
O1 Preview
O1
DeepSeek R1
O1
GPT-4.5 Preview
O3
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Gemini 2.5 Pro
O3
Claude Opus 4.1
Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPT-5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPT-5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPT-4.5 Preview
Gemini 3 Pro
Claude Opus 4.6
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Claude Opus 4.6
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
GPT-5.4
Muse Spark
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Muse Spark
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
GPT-5.5
Muse Spark
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Muse Spark
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Muse Spark
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Muse Spark 1.1
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 5
Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Muse Spark 1.2
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Muse Spark 1.2
Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5.1
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Gemini 3.8 Flash
Muse Spark 1.2
Gemini 4 Argon
Reasoning
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
O1 Mini
O1 Preview
O1 Preview
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
O1 Preview
O1
O1 Preview
DeepSeek R1
O1
DeepSeek R1
O1
O3 Mini
DeepSeek R1
O1
DeepSeek R1
GPT-4.5 Preview
O1
DeepSeek R1
GPT-4.5 Preview
DeepSeek R1
DeepSeek V3 0324
GPT-4.5 Preview
O3
Claude Opus 4
O3
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Gemini 2.5 Pro
O3
Gemini 2.5 Pro
O3
Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507
Claude Opus 4.1
Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPT-5
Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507
Claude Opus 4.1
Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPT-5
Claude Opus 4.1
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Gemini 3 Pro
Claude Opus 4.5
Gemini 3 Pro
Claude Opus 4.6
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.6
Muse Spark
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 5
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 5
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5.1
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 5.5
Gemini 4 Argon
Coding › Web dev
Claude Opus 4.1
Claude Sonnet 4.5
GLM 4.6
Gemini 3 Pro
Claude Opus 4.5
Gemini 3 Pro
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.6
GLM 5.1
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.8
Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5
GPT-5.6 Sol
Kimi K3
Claude Opus 5
Kimi K3
Claude Opus 5
Claude Opus 5
Kimi K3
Claude Fable 5.1
Claude Fable 5.1
GPT-6 Astra
GPT-6 Astra
Claude Opus 5.5
GPT-6 Astra
Claude Opus 5.5
Long context
O1
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
O1
O1 Preview
DeepSeek R1
Gemini 2.0 Flash 001
O1
DeepSeek R1
O1
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
GPT-4.5 Preview
GPT-4.5 Preview
DeepSeek V3 0324
GPT-4.5 Preview
DeepSeek V3 0324
GPT-4.1
GPT-4.5 Preview
DeepSeek V3 0324
GPT-4.1
GPT-4.5 Preview
O3
O3
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Gemini 2.5 Pro
O3
Claude Opus 4.1
Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPT-5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPT-5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPT-4.5 Preview
Claude Sonnet 4.5
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Gemini 3 Pro
Claude Opus 4.5
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Gemini 3 Pro
Claude Opus 4.6
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Claude Opus 4.6
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Claude Opus 4.6
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
GLM 5.1
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
GPT-5.5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
GPT-5.5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.8
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.8
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Kimi K3
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 5
Kimi K3
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 5
Muse Spark 1.2
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5.1
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Gemini 3.8 Flash
Claude Opus 5.5
Gemini 4 Argon
Honest about the gaps

Where it is not the crown

CategoryThis modelWhy
General LLMWas SOTAWas SOTA in General LLM from 2025-10-03 to 2025-10-17.
ReasoningWas SOTAWas SOTA in Reasoning from 2025-10-17 to 2025-11-17.
MathNot SOTA · #23Ranked #23 in Math.
ScienceNot SOTA · #102Last listed at #102 in Science on 2025-09-29. That board does not award a crown.
CodingNot SOTA · #5Last listed at #5 in Coding on 2026-02-17.
Coding › Web devWas SOTAWas SOTA in Coding › Web dev from 2025-11-12 to 2025-11-17.
Long contextWas SOTAWas SOTA in Long context from 2026-01-29 to 2026-02-09.
FactualityNot SOTA · #67Last listed at #67 in Factuality on 2025-09-29.