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Claude Sonnet 5.5

ECI#8
167
Anthropic
Sep. 28, 2026
Closed weights

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a closed-weights model from Anthropic, released September 28, 2026. It has an ECI score of 167 and ranks 8th of 240 tracked models. At the time of its release, it ranked 4th of 227 tracked models.

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ECI scoreBest score 173
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Chess PuzzlesBest score 79%
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65%
71%
84%
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Mathematics
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3%
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0%
89%
91%
94%
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95%
98%
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Multimodal
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83%
80%
32%
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98%
96%
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World knowledge
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72%
76%
70%

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