Sonnet 4.5 vs GPT-5 (Medium)
Head-to-head OCR comparison · 99 battles · Updated October 23, 2026
In head-to-head OCR battles, Sonnet 4.5 outperforms GPT-5 (Medium) with a 53.5% win rate across 99 matchups. Sonnet 4.5 currently ranks #9 on the OCR Arena leaderboard with an ELO rating of 1633, while GPT-5 (Medium) holds position #22 with an ELO of 1354. These rankings are based on blind community voting where users compare OCR outputs without knowing which model produced each result.
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