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Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs o1-mini

3 vs 0 benchmarks won

Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5
OpenAI
o1-mini
Overview
CompanyAnthropicOpenAI
Release dateSep 29 2025Sep 12 2024
Model type
Open sourceNoNo
Specifications
Parameters
Context window
Benchmarks
Science reasoning
GPQA Diamond
83.4%
Software engineering
SWE-Bench Verified
77.2%
Multimodal understanding
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 leads o1-mini on 3 of the tracked benchmarks (GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, MMMU). 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 — at least one of these models has not published scores on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU.

Frequently asked questions

When was Claude Sonnet 4.5 released?
Claude Sonnet 4.5 was released by Anthropic on Sep 29 2025.
When was o1-mini released?
o1-mini was released by OpenAI on Sep 12 2024.

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