Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.1 vs Trinity Large Thinking

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 38.6 on the Noometry Index. Trinity Large Thinking costs 77× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic

41.0

Rank #142 Confirmed

Trinity Large Thinking Arcee AI

38.6

Rank #185 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher in 7 categories and Trinity Large Thinking in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Trinity Large Thinking leads 37.6 to 22.3.
  • Trinity Large Thinking is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.80 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $75 for Claude Opus 4.1.
  • Trinity Large Thinking accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 200K.
  • Trinity Large Thinking has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.1 and Trinity Large Thinking specifications
Claude Opus 4.1Trinity Large Thinking
ProviderAnthropicArcee AI
Noometry Index41.038.6
Released2025-08-052026-04-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K262K
Max output32K80K
Input $ / M tokens$15$0.25
Output $ / M tokens$75$0.80
Results tracked4824

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.4 (#73), Trinity Large Thinking: 34.1 (#244)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Trinity Large Thinking
LMArena WebDev13901238
LMArena Coding14791381
SWE-bench Verified73.3%—
SciCode—36.1%
WeirdML45.9%—
ALE-Bench674.77—
AlgoTune1.34—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 35.0 (#41), Trinity Large Thinking: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Trinity Large Thinking
Terminal-Bench38%—
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), Trinity Large Thinking: 16.9 (#298)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Trinity Large Thinking
LMArena Hard Prompts14431350
SimpleBench60%—
NYT Connections (extended)—16.5%
CritPt—0.9%
Chess Puzzles7%—
EnigmaEval7.2%—
Thematic Generalization—41.6%
EBR-Bench7.9%—
Mystery Game Puzzles21%—
DTBench80%—
LMCA37.1%—
Surface Evolver Bench—15.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index144.12—
ForecastBench62—

Math Trinity Large Thinking leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 22.3 (#277), Trinity Large Thinking: 37.6 (#149)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Trinity Large Thinking
LMArena Math14311366
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 Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 42.0 (#101), Trinity Large Thinking: 40.9 (#113)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Trinity Large Thinking
Vectara Hallucination Rate11.8%6.9%
LMArena Expert14391360
GPQA Diamond77.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam11.5%—
Confabulations17.1%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 26.8 (#119), Trinity Large Thinking: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Trinity Large Thinking
VPCT35%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 52.0 (#95), Trinity Large Thinking: 46.2 (#160)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Trinity Large Thinking
LMArena Non-English14051325
LMArena Chinese14271373
LMArena French14311374
LMArena German14131356
LMArena Japanese13781311
LMArena Korean13801306
LMArena Russian14221337
LMArena Spanish14481357

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 75.6 (#58), Trinity Large Thinking: 70.5 (#162)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Trinity Large Thinking
LMArena Instruction Following14351334

Long Context Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.5 (#63), Trinity Large Thinking: 41.3 (#144)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Trinity Large Thinking
LMArena Longer Query14551355

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 62.4 (#74), Trinity Large Thinking: 53.8 (#158)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Trinity Large Thinking
LMArena Text14191340
LMArena Creative Writing14121320
LMArena Multi-Turn14441342
Short-Story Creative Writing84.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.1 better than Trinity Large Thinking?

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 38.6 on the Noometry Index. Trinity Large Thinking costs 77× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.1 or Trinity Large Thinking?

Trinity Large Thinking is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.80 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.1 lists at $15 and $75.

Is Claude Opus 4.1 or Trinity Large Thinking better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.4 versus 34.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Trinity Large Thinking does, with 262K tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.1 and Trinity Large Thinking share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.1 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Trinity Large Thinking has 24.

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