Horizon Alpha vs Claude Sonnet 4

Compare Horizon Alpha by OpenRouter against Claude Sonnet 4 by Anthropic, in 26 community votes, horizon alpha wins 56% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 256K vs 200K, tested across 20 shared challenges. Updated February 2026.

In 26 community votes, Horizon Alpha wins 56% of head-to-head duels. Horizon Alpha leads in Web Design, Image Generation, Analysis, while Claude Sonnet 4 leads in Reasoning. Based on blind community voting from the RIVAL open dataset of 26+ human preference judgments for this pair.

Web Design: Horizon Alpha wins 70% of votes
Image Generation: Horizon Alpha wins 63% of votes
Reasoning: Claude Sonnet 4 wins 100% of votes
Analysis: Horizon Alpha wins 100% of votes
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