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Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs o3-mini-high

Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs OpenAI o3-mini-high — side-by-side specs.

Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5
OpenAI
o3-mini-high
Overview
CompanyAnthropicOpenAI
Release dateSep 29 2025Jan 31 2025
Model type
Open sourceNoNo
Specifications
Parameters
Context window
Benchmarks
Coding
SWE-Bench Verified
77.2%
Science
GPQA Diamond
83.4%
Multimodal
MMMU
68%
Timeline
Release gapo3-mini-high shipped 241 days before Claude Sonnet 4.5

Which is better: Claude Sonnet 4.5 or o3-mini-high?

Claude Sonnet 4.5 and o3-mini-high don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. o3-mini-high shipped 241 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 o3-mini-high don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.

Frequently asked questions

When was Claude Sonnet 4.5 released?
Claude Sonnet 4.5 was released by Anthropic on Sep 29 2025.
When was o3-mini-high released?
o3-mini-high was released by OpenAI on Jan 31 2025.

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