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Trinity Large Thinking vs Claude Sonnet 4.5

Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads Trinity Large Thinking on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 20.7 to 10.8, and Trinity Large Thinking costs 18.8x less per output token ($0.80 vs $15.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 44 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace Trinity Large Thinking Replace Claude Sonnet 4.5
Trinity Large ThinkingArcee AI
Coding
No data
Overall
No data
Output $/M
$0.80
0
Claude Sonnet 4.5Anthropic
Coding
39.5
Overall
49.5
Output $/M
$15.00
44
vs boards won of 44 shared

Trinity Large Thinking or Claude Sonnet 4.5: which to pick

Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 has a coding score, 39.5 on the Vibe Coding Index; Trinity Large Thinking has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.

Pick Trinity Large Thinking for output tokens 18.8x cheaper ($0.80 vs $15.00 per million).

Model ATrinity Large ThinkingArcee AINot benchmarked1 independent benchmarkNo cost per solved taskModel BClaude Sonnet 4.5Anthropic39.5/1003 independent benchmarks$1.16 per solved task
Shared results
44
Trinity Large Thinking only
8
Claude Sonnet 4.5 only
51
Like-for-like categories
8 of 9

Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.

Which one for your work

Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.

At a glance

Coding index
Trinity Large Thinking not benchmarked, Claude Sonnet 4.5 39.5 from 3 benchmarks.
Widest category
Coding, 23.5 points apart on average over 6 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
LMArena WebDev: HTML: Trinity Large Thinking 1240 against Claude Sonnet 4.5 1399, 26.5 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Trinity Large Thinking $0.80 against Claude Sonnet 4.5 $15.00 per million output tokens, 18.8x apart.
Context window
Trinity Large Thinking takes 262K tokens, Claude Sonnet 4.5 1M.

Benchmark by benchmark

First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.

Boards won, where both have a result
CategoryTrinity Large ThinkingBarsClaude Sonnet 4.5Ties
Coding06
Intelligence01
Agentic work01
Reasoning03
Math02
Knowledge06
Web design08
General017
All shared boards044
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index06
Coding benchmarks for Trinity Large Thinking and Claude Sonnet 4.5
BenchmarkTrinity Large ThinkingClaude Sonnet 4.5Leader
SWE-bench VerifiedNot measured74.8%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
SWE-bench MultilingualNot measured67.0%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
LMArena WebDev12381394Claude Sonnet 4.5
AA Coding Index25.852.1Claude Sonnet 4.5
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)Not measured73.0%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)Not measured70.0%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)Not measured22.6%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
SciCode40.6%Not measuredOnly Trinity Large Thinking measured
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)22.7%Not measuredOnly Trinity Large Thinking measured
Terminal-BenchNot measured46.5%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
GSO-BenchNot measured14.7%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
WeirdMLNot measured47.7%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
CybenchNot measured60.0%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
LMArena Text: coding13571488Claude Sonnet 4.5
LMArena Text: software and IT13621473Claude Sonnet 4.5
LMArena WebDev: React12311386Claude Sonnet 4.5
LMArena WebDev: HTML12401399Claude Sonnet 4.5
Neither model has a result on the other 22 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
Intelligence benchmarks for Trinity Large Thinking and Claude Sonnet 4.5
BenchmarkTrinity Large ThinkingClaude Sonnet 4.5Leader
AA Intelligence Index10.820.7Claude Sonnet 4.5
Epoch Capabilities IndexNot measured146.7Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
Agentic work benchmarks for Trinity Large Thinking and Claude Sonnet 4.5
BenchmarkTrinity Large ThinkingClaude Sonnet 4.5Leader
AA Agentic Index1.015.8Claude Sonnet 4.5
Design Arena: agents building web appsNot measured1060Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
Design Arena: agents building full-stack appsNot measured1050Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
Design Arena: agents building mobile appsNot measured1137Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
τ²-Bench Telecom90.1%Not measuredOnly Trinity Large Thinking measured
METR time horizonsNot measured67.4%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
Remote Labor IndexNot measured2.1%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
GDPvalNot measured42.5%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
DeepResearch BenchNot measured52.6%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
OSWorldNot measured62.9%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
Vending-Bench 2Not measured$3,839Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL)Not measured73.2%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 29 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index03
Reasoning benchmarks for Trinity Large Thinking and Claude Sonnet 4.5
BenchmarkTrinity Large ThinkingClaude Sonnet 4.5Leader
GPQA DiamondNot measured81.6%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)Not measured79.3%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)75.2%Not measuredOnly Trinity Large Thinking measured
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)15.8%Not measuredOnly Trinity Large Thinking measured
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)Not measured82.3%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
ARC-AGINot measured63.7%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
ARC-AGI-2Not measured13.6%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
SimpleBenchNot measured54.3%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
Chess puzzlesNot measured10.0%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
Mystery game puzzlesNot measured17.0%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
EBR-benchNot measured2.4%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
VPCTNot measured39.8%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts13421462Claude Sonnet 4.5
LMArena Text: expert13591483Claude Sonnet 4.5
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English13561471Claude Sonnet 4.5
Kagi LLM BenchmarkNot measured57.9%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
Math benchmarks for Trinity Large Thinking and Claude Sonnet 4.5
BenchmarkTrinity Large ThinkingClaude Sonnet 4.5Leader
AIMENot measured88.2%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
MGSM (Vals AI)Not measured94.3%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
OTIS Mock AIMENot measured77.8%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3Not measured23.9%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
FrontierMath, tier 4Not measured2.4%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
ProofBenchNot measured19.0%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
MATH level 5Not measured97.7%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
LMArena Text: math13651449Claude Sonnet 4.5
LMArena Text: mathematical work13501462Claude Sonnet 4.5
Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index06
Knowledge benchmarks for Trinity Large Thinking and Claude Sonnet 4.5
BenchmarkTrinity Large ThinkingClaude Sonnet 4.5Leader
MMLU ProNot measured87.4%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
LegalBench (Vals AI)Not measured84.1%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
CaseLaw (Vals AI)57.9%62.2%Claude Sonnet 4.5
CorpFin (Vals AI)54.7%62.0%Claude Sonnet 4.5
TaxEval (Vals AI)Not measured73.3%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
MortgageTax (Vals AI)Not measured64.0%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
MedQA (Vals AI)Not measured94.7%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
MedCode (Vals AI)Not measured44.1%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
SimpleQA VerifiedNot measured30.7%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
LMArena Text: science13551448Claude Sonnet 4.5
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare13491444Claude Sonnet 4.5
LMArena Text: legal and government13451451Claude Sonnet 4.5
LMArena Text: business and finance13291440Claude Sonnet 4.5
FACTS Benchmark SuiteNot measured40.6%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index08
Web design benchmarks for Trinity Large Thinking and Claude Sonnet 4.5
BenchmarkTrinity Large ThinkingClaude Sonnet 4.5Leader
Design Arena: websites11371189Claude Sonnet 4.5
Design Arena: UI components10421170Claude Sonnet 4.5
Design Arena: game dev10781166Claude Sonnet 4.5
Design Arena: data viz10981167Claude Sonnet 4.5
Design Arena: 3D10811157Claude Sonnet 4.5
Design Arena: all code categories11171182Claude Sonnet 4.5
Design Arena: SVG10161115Claude Sonnet 4.5
Design Arena: ASCII art10411205Claude Sonnet 4.5
Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index017
General benchmarks for Trinity Large Thinking and Claude Sonnet 4.5
BenchmarkTrinity Large ThinkingClaude Sonnet 4.5Leader
SAGE (Vals AI)Not measured36.1%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
MedScribe (Vals AI)Not measured84.5%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
IFBench56.3%Not measuredOnly Trinity Large Thinking measured
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)38.0%Not measuredOnly Trinity Large Thinking measured
DTBenchNot measured83.2%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
LMCANot measured38.8%Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
Surface Evolver Bench15.6%Not measuredOnly Trinity Large Thinking measured
LMArena Text13401438Claude Sonnet 4.5
LMArena Text: instruction following13261459Claude Sonnet 4.5
LMArena Text: creative writing13081442Claude Sonnet 4.5
LMArena Text: English13561450Claude Sonnet 4.5
LMArena Text: non-English13251425Claude Sonnet 4.5
LMArena Text: Chinese13711460Claude Sonnet 4.5
LMArena Text: German13561427Claude Sonnet 4.5
LMArena Text: Japanese13121390Claude Sonnet 4.5
LMArena Text: Korean13061402Claude Sonnet 4.5
LMArena Text: French13661459Claude Sonnet 4.5
LMArena Text: Spanish13271458Claude Sonnet 4.5
LMArena Text: Russian13381437Claude Sonnet 4.5
LMArena Text: Polish13121423Claude Sonnet 4.5
LMArena Text: multi-turn13201465Claude Sonnet 4.5
LMArena Text: longer queries13181475Claude Sonnet 4.5
LMArena Text: writing and language13171442Claude Sonnet 4.5
LMArena Text: entertainment and media12961428Claude Sonnet 4.5
LMArena DocumentNot measured1450Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 21 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for Trinity Large Thinking and Claude Sonnet 4.5
BenchmarkTrinity Large ThinkingClaude Sonnet 4.5Leader
Neither model has a result on 5 boards here

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.

Chat turn

1K input + 500 output tokens

Trinity Large Thinking$0.0006Fits in one request
Claude Sonnet 4.5$0.011Fits in one request

Trinity Large Thinking costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Trinity Large Thinking$0.015Fits in one request
Claude Sonnet 4.5$0.195Fits in one request

Trinity Large Thinking costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Trinity Large Thinking$0.058Fits in one request
Claude Sonnet 4.5$0.750Fits in one request

Trinity Large Thinking costs less

Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.

Specification differences

The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.

Specifications of Trinity Large Thinking and Claude Sonnet 4.5
SpecificationArcee AI Trinity Large ThinkingAnthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5
MakerArcee AIAnthropic
WeightsOpen weightsNo public weights listed
ReleasedApril 1, 2026September 29, 2025
Context window262K1M
Input $/Mtok$0.25$3.00
Output $/Mtok$0.80$15.00
Coding indexNot benchmarked39.5
Independent measurements behind it13
Cost per solved taskNot computable$1.16
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Trinity Large Thinking better than Claude Sonnet 4.5 for coding?

Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 has a coding score, 39.5 on the Vibe Coding Index; Trinity Large Thinking has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Trinity Large Thinking for output tokens 18.8x cheaper ($0.80 vs $15.00 per million).

Which is cheaper, Trinity Large Thinking or Claude Sonnet 4.5?

Trinity Large Thinking costs $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.80 per million output tokens; Claude Sonnet 4.5 costs $3.00 and $15.00. Cost per solved task is known for Claude Sonnet 4.5 only.

Which has the bigger context window, Trinity Large Thinking or Claude Sonnet 4.5?

Claude Sonnet 4.5, with 1M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks is the Trinity Large Thinking vs Claude Sonnet 4.5 comparison based on?

44 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Trinity Large Thinking's coding index rests on 1 independent benchmark and Claude Sonnet 4.5's on 3. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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