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Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs o1-preview

2 vs 0 benchmarks won

Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.6
OpenAI
o1-preview
Overview
CompanyAnthropicOpenAI
Release dateFeb 17 2026Sep 12 2024
Model type
Open sourceNoNo
Specifications
Parameters
Context window
Benchmarks
Science reasoning
GPQA Diamond
89.9%
Software engineering
SWE-Bench Verified
79.6%
Multimodal understanding
MMMU
Timeline
Release gapo1-preview shipped 523 days before Claude Sonnet 4.6

Which is better: Claude Sonnet 4.6 or o1-preview?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads o1-preview on 2 of the tracked benchmarks (GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, MMMU). o1-preview shipped 523 days before Claude Sonnet 4.6, 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 4.6 released?
Claude Sonnet 4.6 was released by Anthropic on Feb 17 2026.
When was o1-preview released?
o1-preview was released by OpenAI on Sep 12 2024.

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