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Claude 3.7 Sonnet Turbo on IFEval: score, rank and what it means

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Turbo scores 87.4 on IFEval, placing it #119 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 78.6 and the leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 96.1.

Score
87.4
0–100 scale
Rank
#119
of 600
Percentile
80th
within the index
Benchmark avg
78.6
all models
Leader
96.1
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro
Gap to leader
8.7
points

Score distribution

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

Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 96.1
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning 95.9
GPT-5.2 Pro 95.6
GPT-5.2 Max 95.2
GPT-5.2 Reasoning 95.0
GPT-5.1 Pro 94.8
Gemini 3 Pro Max 94.7
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 94.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Max 94.5
o4 Reasoning 94.5

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
2 Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 2000000 $20.91 88.2
3 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
4 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
5 GPT-5.2 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $20.98 87.5
6 GPT-5.1 Pro OpenAI 200000 $19.77 87.8
7 Gemini 3 Pro Max Google DeepMind 2000000 $20.57 87.9
8 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3
9 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
10 o4 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $19.69 87.5

What this score means

On IFEval, Claude 3.7 Sonnet Turbo sits at #119 of 600. The leader, Claude Opus 4.5 Pro, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 8.7 points. The median model in this index scores 81.2, which puts Claude 3.7 Sonnet Turbo above the midpoint.

Anthropic models average 88.3 on this benchmark. Claude 3.7 Sonnet Turbo is 0.9 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average Anthropic model.

Among multimodal models, the average is 85.2. Claude 3.7 Sonnet Turbo is 2.2 points above that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.

Read a 87.4 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 $15.56 per million input tokens, Claude 3.7 Sonnet Turbo is above the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on IFEval. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Reka Core Max Reka AI 128000 $13.41 79.3
Kimi K2 Instruct Moonshot AI 1000000 $5.80 82.3
Llama 4 Maverick Meta AI 200000 $5.36 81.6
Qwen3 Chat Alibaba Cloud 128000 $4.75 79.1
Claude 3.7 Sonnet Turbo Anthropic 200000 $15.56 82.3
Command A Cohere 200000 $13.30 79.6
GLM-4.6 Instruct Zhipu AI 1000000 $5.15 80.4

Other benchmarks for Claude 3.7 Sonnet Turbo

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 82.1 118 80th
GPQA Diamond 79.7 62 90th
SWE-bench Verified 73.9 54 91th
HumanEval 87.6 77 87th
MATH-500 86.8 80 87th
AIME 2025 81.4 66 89th
LiveCodeBench 75.5 91 85th
TruthfulQA 82.6 114 81th
HellaSwag 91.0 62 90th
MMMU 77.6 102 83th
Arena Elo 1458.8 54 91th

FAQ

What score does Claude 3.7 Sonnet Turbo get on IFEval?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Turbo scores 87.4 on IFEval in this index. The benchmark average is 78.6 and the top score is 96.1.

How does Claude 3.7 Sonnet Turbo rank on IFEval?

It ranks #119 of 600 models, in the 80th percentile. The leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 96.1.

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet Turbo good at IFEval?

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 IFEval score calculated?

IFEval is a instruction following 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 Turbo cost?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Turbo costs $15.56 per million input tokens and $63.75 per million output tokens.

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