Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024): benchmark scores, price and ranking

Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024) from Anthropic is a recent or sparsely tested model with 1 benchmark result on record; it has not been measured on enough benchmarks shared with other models to receive an aggregate rank. This page lists every score we have, based on 1 benchmark results captured up to 2026-10-13.

Organisation: Anthropic
Type: Frontier model
Open weights: No
Released: 2024-10-22 (source: epoch)
Cheapest API price: $3.00 in / $15.00 out per million tokens (via snowflake, observed 2026-10-13T22:47Z)
Aggregate rank: Not ranked yet (too few shared benchmarks)

Across the 1 benchmark where at least ten models are scored, Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024) is in the top 10% on 0 and in the top half on 1.

Its cheapest listed input price, $3.00 per million tokens, is lower than that of 11% of the 427 models with a listed price.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024) benchmark results

Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024) benchmark scores, ranked against all models measured on each benchmark
Benchmark	Score	Rank	Source	Captured
Epoch ECI	134	#78 of 204	Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub	2026-10-13

About Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024)

Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024) is a frontier model from Anthropic. It was released on 2024-10-22, according to Epoch AI. The cheapest API listing we track charges $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens, through snowflake. We hold 1 benchmark result for it across 1 area, and none is in the top tenth of its board.

Where Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024) stands

Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024) has 1 result so far and shares too few benchmarks with other models to get an aggregate rank. The rank will appear on its own once more scores are published.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024), benchmark by benchmark

Epoch ECI puts Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024) at 134, #78 of 204. That beats 62% of the models tested, but 23 points short of Qwen 3.8 Max (156). The results either side are Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Jun 2025) (134) and Magistral Small 1.0 (133). It covers Epoch Capabilities Index: Epoch's own aggregate of ~40 benchmarks. The board median is 127, so Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024) is 6 points above it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.

Release history

The Anthropic model released before it was Claude 3.5 Sonnet (Oct 2024) on 2024-10-22, which scores 45.4. The next one was claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219 on 2025-02-24, at 48.2.

Reading these numbers

The 1 score on this page comes from 1 source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub (1). No official leaderboard supplied any of them, so treat them as third-party measurements. With 1 results the aggregate rank can move a lot when one new score arrives.