Claude 3 Sonnet (20240229)
AnthropicProprietary
Claude 3 Sonnet (20240229) is a vision-language model from Anthropic. It ranks 154 of 167 on LMArena’s overall vision board with 984±11 from 12,314 votes. License: Proprietary.
Key figures
- Developer
- Anthropic
- License
- Proprietary
- First seen (our snapshots)
- 2026-10-26
No data: OCR, Diagrams, Homework, Captioning, Entity recognition, Creative writing, Humor.
Who it suits
- Overall #154 of 167: lower half; consider it mainly for cost or deployment reasons.
- Proprietary; used through Anthropic’s apps or API.
Neighbours on the overall board
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License | Δ vs this model |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 151 |  Aya Vision 32B Cohere | 996 | 847 | CC-BY-NC-4.0 | +12 |
| 152 | AAmazon Nova Lite 1.0 Amazon | 990 | 1,854 | Proprietary | +6 |
| 153 |  Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct Alibaba | 990 | 5,766 | Apache 2.0 | +6 |
| 154 | Claude 3 Sonnet (20240229) Anthropic | 984 | 12,314 | Proprietary | |
| 155 | AAmazon Nova Pro 1.0 Amazon | 980 | 2,335 | Proprietary | -4 |
| 156 | 0Yi Vision 01.AI | 978 | 1,219 | Proprietary | -6 |
| 157 |  Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct Meta | 966 | 4,817 | Llama 3.2 | -18 |
Alternatives · More from Anthropic
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Fable 5 (High) Anthropic | 1325 | 14,714 | Proprietary |
| 2 | Claude Opus 5.5 (High) Anthropic | 1321 | 3,035 | Proprietary |
| 3 | Claude Opus 5 (High) Anthropic | 1320 | 17,743 | Proprietary |
| 4 | Claude Fable 5.1 (Max) Anthropic | 1319 | 5,026 | Proprietary |
| 5 | Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic | 1317 | 23,139 | Proprietary |
Alternatives · Top open-weight models
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 |  GLM-5.3-Flash Z.ai | 1294 | 16,254 | MIT |
| 34 |  Kimi K2.6 Moonshot AI | 1282 | 16,368 | Modified MIT |
| 38 |  DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-20260910 (Max) DeepSeek | 1278 | 4,100 | MIT |
| 39 |  Gemma 4 31B Google | 1276 | 40,219 | Apache 2.0 |
| 44 | Qwen3.8-27B Alibaba | 1269 | 7,614 | Apache 2.0 |
How to read these scores
- If two scores differ by less than their ± intervals, the models are statistically close.
- Each category board is computed independently; do not compare scores across categories.
- Models with few votes move more; ranks of new entries may change.
FAQ
Where does Claude 3 Sonnet (20240229) rank among vision models?
Overall rank 154 (984); English rank 159 (980); Chinese rank 123 (942) (LMArena, data as of Oct 26, 2026).
How good is Claude 3 Sonnet (20240229) at OCR?
Claude 3 Sonnet (20240229) is not on LMArena’s OCR board yet, so there is no score to cite.
Is Claude 3 Sonnet (20240229) better with Chinese or English prompts?
Chinese board: #123 of 128 (942); English board: #159 of 167 (980). The boards are computed separately, so compare ranks rather than scores.
Is Claude 3 Sonnet (20240229) open-weight?
No. LMArena lists it as Proprietary; it is available through Anthropic’s apps or API.
How far is Claude 3 Sonnet (20240229) from #1?
#1 overall is Claude Fable 5 (High) (1325); Claude 3 Sonnet (20240229) has 984, 341 points behind.
Sources
LMArena data published Oct 19, 2026.
Synced here Oct 26, 2026.
Price, context length and release date have no reliable public data here and are not shown; all figures come from snapshots, blanks are –.