Atria Dawn Preview vs Claude Sonnet 4.5
Atria Dawn Preview leads the LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 32.1.
Shanghai AI Laboratory · Anthropic · Updated for 2026
Which is better?
Atria Dawn Preview leads the overall LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 32.1, ranking #10 overall.
Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.
Choose Atria Dawn Preview
- overall performance matters — it scores 52.3 and ranks #10 on LLM Stats
- your work emphasizes reasoning and agents — it leads those capability indexes
- you want the most recent training data — it shipped Sep 2026
- you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune
Choose Claude Sonnet 4.5
- you want predictable pricing at $3.00/M input and $15.00/M output
At a glance
The differences that matter most.
Capability indexes
Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks
Individual benchmarks
12 reported for Atria Dawn Preview · 9 for Claude Sonnet 4.5
Atria Dawn Preview and Claude Sonnet 4.5don't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.
Human preference
Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores
Context Window
Maximum input and output token capacity
Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 specifies input context (200,000 tokens). Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 specifies output context (64,000 tokens).
Input capabilities
Documented input modalities across available providers
Claude Sonnet 4.5 supports multimodal inputs, whereas Atria Dawn Preview does not.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.
Atria Dawn Preview
Claude Sonnet 4.5
License
Usage and distribution terms
Atria Dawn Preview is licensed under MIT, while Claude Sonnet 4.5 uses a proprietary license.
License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.
MIT
Open weights
Proprietary
Closed source
Release Timeline
When each model was launched
Atria Dawn Preview was released on 2026-09-11, while Claude Sonnet 4.5 was released on 2025-09-29.
Atria Dawn Preview is 12 months newer than Claude Sonnet 4.5.
Sep 11, 2026
1 weeks ago
11mo newerSep 29, 2025
11 months ago
Knowledge Cutoff
When training data ends
Claude Sonnet 4.5 has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2025-01-31, while Atria Dawn Preview's cutoff date is not specified.
We can confirm Claude Sonnet 4.5's training data extends to 2025-01-31, but cannot make a direct comparison without Atria Dawn Preview's cutoff date.
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Jan 2025
Outputs Comparison
Judge for yourself.
Run your own prompts against Atria Dawn Preview and Claude Sonnet 4.5 side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.
FAQ
Common questions about Atria Dawn Preview vs Claude Sonnet 4.5.