Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs o1-mini

o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.0 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 34 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

o1-mini OpenAI

34.0

Rank #235 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 34 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 1 category and o1-mini in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where o1-mini leads 35.4 to 14.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 37.5% for Claude 3 Opus and 89.2% for o1-mini.

Side by side

Claude 3 Opuso1-mini
ProviderAnthropicOpenAI
Noometry Index29.534.0
Released2024-02-292024-09-12
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
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Results tracked4639

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Category by category

Coding o1-mini leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), o1-mini: 35.5 (#224)

BenchmarkClaude 3 Opuso1-mini
WeirdML19.2%36.3%
LiveBench Coding38.6%48%
LMArena Coding12641362
HumanEval+77.4%89%
MBPP+73.3%78.8%
Aider Polyglot—32.9%
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%—

Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), o1-mini: 24.6 (#118)

BenchmarkClaude 3 Opuso1-mini
Cybench10%10%
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), o1-mini: 8.8 (#346)

BenchmarkClaude 3 Opuso1-mini
SimpleBench23.5%18.1%
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%72.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts12451333
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%57.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91135.82
LiveBench49.2%57.8%
ARC-AGI-2—0.8%
ARC-AGI-1—14%
Chess Puzzles5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
DTBench61.6%—
LMCA17%—
ForecastBench58.4—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math o1-mini leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), o1-mini: 35.4 (#186)

BenchmarkClaude 3 Opuso1-mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%46.9%
LiveBench Math43.6%62%
LMArena Math12731358
MATH Level 537.5%89.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1.7%

Knowledge o1-mini leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), o1-mini: 34.9 (#192)

BenchmarkClaude 3 Opuso1-mini
GPQA Diamond47.2%62.4%
Confabulations22.7%18.6%
LMArena Expert12231316
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), o1-mini: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 Opuso1-mini
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual o1-mini leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), o1-mini: 43.6 (#182)

BenchmarkClaude 3 Opuso1-mini
LMArena Non-English12581289
LMArena Chinese12481314
LMArena French12751293
LMArena German12581278
LMArena Japanese12041245
LMArena Korean11871223
LMArena Russian12801283
LMArena Spanish12461303

Instruction Following o1-mini leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), o1-mini: 66.7 (#206)

BenchmarkClaude 3 Opuso1-mini
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%65.4%
LMArena Instruction Following12481304

Long Context o1-mini leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), o1-mini: 40.1 (#161)

BenchmarkClaude 3 Opuso1-mini
LMArena Longer Query12591320

Writing & Preference o1-mini leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), o1-mini: 48.4 (#202)

BenchmarkClaude 3 Opuso1-mini
LMArena Text12621317
LMArena Creative Writing12351244
LMArena Multi-Turn12751314
LiveBench Language50.4%40.9%
Short-Story Creative Writing—64.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than o1-mini?

o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.0 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or o1-mini better for coding?

o1-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and o1-mini share?

34 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and o1-mini has 39.

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