Claude Sonnet 4 vs o4-mini
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 | OpenAI o4-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Release date | May 22 2025 | Apr 16 2025 |
| Access | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Benchmarks | ||
Nonsense detection BullshitBench v2Given a confidently-worded but nonsensical prompt, does the AI spot that it makes no sense and push back — instead of playing along and inventing an answer? The score is how often it clearly called out the nonsense. Higher is better. | 30%Best | 8% |
Coding SWE-Bench VerifiedReal coding tasks pulled from open-source projects — the AI has to find and fix actual bugs. A human-checked version of the original SWE-Bench. Higher is better. | 72.7% | — |
Science GPQA DiamondGraduate-level science questions in biology, physics, and chemistry — hard enough that subject-matter PhDs score around 65%. Higher is better. | 75.4% | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | o4-mini shipped 36 days before Claude Sonnet 4 | |
Which is better: Claude Sonnet 4 or o4-mini?
Claude Sonnet 4 leads o4-mini on 1 of the 1 benchmark they both report (BullshitBench v2). o4-mini shipped 36 days before Claude Sonnet 4, 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.
On BullshitBench v2, Claude Sonnet 4 leads at 30% vs o4-mini at 8%.
Frequently asked questions
Claude Sonnet 4 was released by Anthropic on May 22 2025.
o4-mini was released by OpenAI on Apr 16 2025.
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