Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.1 vs Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 36.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic

41.0

Rank #142 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher in 7 categories and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Claude Opus 4.1 leads 35.0 to 15.7.
  • Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.1 and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 specifications
Claude Opus 4.1Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
ProviderAnthropicNVIDIA
Noometry Index41.036.7
Released2025-08-05—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked4811

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.4 (#73), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 38.4 (#177)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
LMArena Coding14791312
SWE-bench Verified73.3%—
LMArena WebDev1390—
WeirdML45.9%—
ALE-Bench674.77—
AlgoTune1.34—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 35.0 (#41), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 15.7 (#149)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
Terminal-Bench38%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—10%
GDPval43.6%—
Cybench42%—
DeepResearch Bench48.3%—
LMArena Search1148—
METR Time Horizons66.8%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 32.2 (#76), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 26.3 (#134)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
LMArena Hard Prompts14431316
SimpleBench60%—
Chess Puzzles7%—
EnigmaEval7.2%—
EBR-Bench7.9%—
Mystery Game Puzzles21%—
DTBench80%—
LMCA37.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index144.12—
ForecastBench62—

Math Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 22.3 (#277), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 37.5 (#152)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
LMArena Math14311360
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)12.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202568.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)7.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 42.0 (#101), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
GPQA Diamond77.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam11.5%—
Confabulations17.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate11.8%—
LMArena Expert1439—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 26.8 (#119), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
VPCT35%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 52.0 (#95), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 43.1 (#187)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
LMArena Non-English14051282
LMArena Russian14221284
LMArena Chinese1427—
LMArena French1431—
LMArena German1413—
LMArena Japanese1378—
LMArena Korean1380—
LMArena Spanish1448—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 75.6 (#58), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 69.0 (#178)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
LMArena Instruction Following14351308

Long Context Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.5 (#63), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 39.5 (#177)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
LMArena Longer Query14551299

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 62.4 (#74), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 52.2 (#175)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
LMArena Text14191320
LMArena Creative Writing14121314
LMArena Multi-Turn14441317
Short-Story Creative Writing84.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.1 better than Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1?

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 36.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.1 or Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.4 versus 38.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.1 and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.1 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 has 11.

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