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Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs o1-mini

Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5
OpenAI
o1-mini
Overview
CompanyAnthropicOpenAI
Release dateSep 29 2025Sep 12 2024
AccessProprietaryProprietary
Benchmarks
Nonsense detection
BullshitBench v2
79%
Coding
SWE-Bench Verified
77.2%
Next.js coding
Next.js Evals
50%
Science
GPQA Diamond
83.4%
Multimodal
MMMU
68%
Timeline
Release gapo1-mini shipped 382 days before Claude Sonnet 4.5

Which is better: Claude Sonnet 4.5 or o1-mini?

Claude Sonnet 4.5 and o1-mini don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. o1-mini shipped 382 days before Claude Sonnet 4.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Published specifications for these two models are limited — see each model page for the latest details.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Claude Sonnet 4.5 and o1-mini don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.

Frequently asked questions

Claude Sonnet 4.5 was released by Anthropic on Sep 29 2025.

o1-mini was released by OpenAI on Sep 12 2024.

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