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Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, Low Effort) vs Claude 4.5 Sonnet (Reasoning)

Anthropic vs Anthropic — side-by-side benchmark comparison

Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, Low Effort)Claude 4.5 Sonnet (Reasoning)
Intelligence Index42.643.0
Coding Index43.038.6
Math Index88.0
Output speed (tok/s)54.955.0
Blended price ($/1M)$6.56$6.56
Time to first token (s)1.13s7.02s
aime
aime 2588.0%
artificial analysis coding index43.0038.60
artificial analysis intelligence index42.6043.00
artificial analysis math index88.00
gpqa79.7%83.4%
hle10.8%17.3%
ifbench42.4%57.3%
lcr58.7%65.7%
livecodebench71.4%
math 500
mmlu pro87.5%
scicode44.1%44.7%
tau278.9%78.1%
terminalbench hard42.4%35.6%

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis.