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Claude Sonnet 4vso3
o3 leads 2 of 3 shared benchmarks. o3 is 1.8x cheaper per token. Both offer a 200K-token context window.
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
1 – 2
o3 leads
Cheaper per token
o3
1.8x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Tie
both 200K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 95.4416%
Anthropic · OpenAI
Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic · released 2025-05-22
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
3 shared · 1 only Claude Sonnet 4 · 4 only o3| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | o3 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 3 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 72.7% ↗ | 69.1% ↗ | +3.6 pt | Claude Sonnet 4 |
| GPQA Diamond | 79.2% ↗epoch | 81.8% ↗epoch | -2.6 pt | o3 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 71.1% ↗epoch | 84.4% ↗epoch | -13.3 pt | o3 |
| Only Claude Sonnet 4 reports · 1 | ||||
| AIME 2024 (no extended thinking) | 33.1% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only o3 reports · 4 | ||||
| AIME 2025 | not reported | 89.2% ↗matharena ⚠ | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 33.3% ↗epoch | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | not reported | 49.4% ↗epoch | — | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 62.3% ↗epoch | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Claude Sonnet 4 minus o3 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Claude Sonnet 4 | o3 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 200K tokens | 200K tokens | Tie |
| Max output | 64K tokens | 100K tokens | o3 |
| Input price / 1M | $3 ↗ | $2 ↗ | o3 |
| Output price / 1M | $15 ↗ | $8 ↗ | o3 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.3 ↗ | $0.5 ↗ | Claude Sonnet 4 |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $18 | $10 | o3 |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision | Tie |
| Released | 2025-05-22 | 2025-04-16 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 4 | 7 | — |
Reliability
Provider status
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