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Claude 3.7 Sonnet Reasoning on LiveCodeBench: score, rank and what it means

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Reasoning scores 79.6 on LiveCodeBench, placing it #48 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 61.0 and the leader is Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning at 85.1.

Score
79.6
0–100 scale
Rank
#48
of 600
Percentile
92th
within the index
Benchmark avg
61.0
all models
Leader
85.1
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning
Gap to leader
5.5
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on LiveCodeBench, with Claude 3.7 Sonnet Reasoning highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning 85.1
Grok 4 Reasoning 85.1
Claude Opus 4.5 85.0
GPT-5.2 Max 84.8
Grok 4 Turbo 84.7
GPT-5.1 Turbo 84.6
GPT-5.2 Pro 84.6
GPT-5.2 Reasoning 84.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 84.1
Gemini 3 Pro Max 83.6

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 400000 $19.48 87.7
2 Grok 4 Reasoning xAI 2000000 $19.67 87.8
3 Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic 400000 $19.42 87.7
4 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
5 Grok 4 Turbo xAI 1000000 $19.21 86.7
6 GPT-5.1 Turbo OpenAI 2000000 $19.19 86.1
7 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
8 GPT-5.2 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $20.98 87.5
9 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
10 Gemini 3 Pro Max Google DeepMind 2000000 $20.57 87.9

What this score means

On LiveCodeBench, Claude 3.7 Sonnet Reasoning sits at #48 of 600. The leader, Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning, scores 85.1, so the gap to the top is 5.5 points. The median model in this index scores 64.7, which puts Claude 3.7 Sonnet Reasoning above the midpoint.

Anthropic models average 74.9 on this benchmark. Claude 3.7 Sonnet Reasoning is 4.7 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Anthropic model.

Among frontier models, the average is 80.6. Claude 3.7 Sonnet Reasoning is 1.0 points below that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.

Read a 79.6 as a relative signal, not an absolute guarantee. Benchmark scores depend on prompt format, evaluation harness and contamination controls. Use this page to narrow the shortlist, then test the model on your own data.

Price context

At $16.30 per million input tokens, Claude 3.7 Sonnet Reasoning is above the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on LiveCodeBench. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
o4 Turbo OpenAI 2000000 $19.34 86.6
Gemini 2.5 Pro Max Google DeepMind 200000 $16.94 84.8
GPT-5.2 OpenAI 2000000 $19.71 88.0
Grok 3 Max xAI 2000000 $17.66 85.9
Claude 3.7 Sonnet Reasoning Anthropic 128000 $16.30 83.7
DeepSeek-R1 Instruct DeepSeek 1000000 $5.90 83.1
DeepSeek-R1 Chat DeepSeek 400000 $5.62 82.4

Other benchmarks for Claude 3.7 Sonnet Reasoning

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 86.4 45 93th
GPQA Diamond 81.3 39 94th
SWE-bench Verified 71.0 95 84th
HumanEval 89.2 57 91th
MATH-500 90.3 45 93th
AIME 2025 79.8 92 85th
IFEval 90.1 69 89th
TruthfulQA 86.2 47 92th
HellaSwag 90.4 75 88th
MMMU 76.5 122 80th
Arena Elo 1464.4 44 93th

FAQ

What score does Claude 3.7 Sonnet Reasoning get on LiveCodeBench?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Reasoning scores 79.6 on LiveCodeBench in this index. The benchmark average is 61.0 and the top score is 85.1.

How does Claude 3.7 Sonnet Reasoning rank on LiveCodeBench?

It ranks #48 of 600 models, in the 92nd percentile. The leader is Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning at 85.1.

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet Reasoning good at LiveCodeBench?

Yes, relative to the index: it is above the median and inside the top half of scores. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.

How is the LiveCodeBench score calculated?

LiveCodeBench is a coding benchmark. Scores in this index are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale (or Elo for Arena), derived from capability tier and benchmark difficulty. They are not official leaderboard results.

What does Claude 3.7 Sonnet Reasoning cost?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Reasoning costs $16.30 per million input tokens and $77.62 per million output tokens.

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