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VERIFIEDOct 142026
Is Claude Sonnet 5 state of the art?
No.Best recorded rank is #8 in Coding › Web dev.

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Sonnet 5 from Anthropic. Best recorded rank is #8 in Coding › Web dev. Last listed at #8 in Coding › Web dev on 2026-07-30.

Computed automaticallyas of Oct 14, 2026methodology v1.0confidence: low
ReasoningNot SOTA · #38#38 · 0dScienceNot SOTA · #38#38 · 0dCodingNot SOTA · #21#21 · 0dCoding · paretoNot SOTA · #21#21 · 0dCoding › AgenticNot SOTA · #21#21 · 0dCoding › Agentic · paretoNot SOTA · #21#21 · 0dCoding › Web devNot SOTA · #8#8 · 0dFactualityNot SOTA · #56#56 · 0d
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Why

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Last listed at #38 in Reasoning on 2026-06-30.

Receipts

Evidence

Scores come from the latest ingested snapshot
SourceScoreDateTypeReceipt
GPQA Diamond
claude-sonnet-5_xhigh · xhigh
0.9053030303030303 0.9–0.92026-06-30INDEP.snap_e03cddec1fbb
Terminal-Bench 4.0
Sonnet 5 max · max
12.42 9.4–15.52026-10-06INDEP.snap_13678220dcf7
LMArena WebDev
claude-sonnet-5-high · high
1544.1612005813458 1534.0–1554.32026-07-30INDEP.snap_d2f3c94c88f6
SimpleQA Verified
claude-sonnet-5_max · max
0.337 0.3–0.42026-06-30INDEP.snap_e03cddec1fbb
Reign history

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Where it is not the crown

CategoryThis modelWhy
ReasoningNot SOTA · #38Last listed at #38 in Reasoning on 2026-06-30.
ScienceNot SOTA · #38Last listed at #38 in Science on 2026-06-30. That board does not award a crown.
CodingNot SOTA · #21Ranked #21 in Coding.
Coding › AgenticNot SOTA · #21Ranked #21 in Coding › Agentic.
Coding › Web devNot SOTA · #8Last listed at #8 in Coding › Web dev on 2026-07-30.
FactualityNot SOTA · #56Last listed at #56 in Factuality on 2026-06-30.