Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.5 vs Hy4 preview

Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 45.3 on the Noometry Index. Hy4 preview costs 8.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic

50.5

Rank #47 Confirmed

Hy4 preview Tencent

45.3

Rank #73 Reported

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher in 2 categories and Hy4 preview in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Hy4 preview leads 55.7 to 38.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ProofBench: 36% for Claude Opus 4.5 and 75% for Hy4 preview.
  • Hy4 preview is cheaper at $0.75 / $2.25 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.5.
  • Hy4 preview accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 200K.
  • Hy4 preview has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.5 and Hy4 preview specifications
Claude Opus 4.5Hy4 preview
ProviderAnthropicTencent
Noometry Index50.545.3
Released2025-11-012026-08-28
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K1.05M
Max output64K64K
Input $ / M tokens$5$0.75
Output $ / M tokens$25$2.25
Results tracked693

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 54.8 (#27), Hy4 preview: 51.6 (#38)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Hy4 preview
LMArena WebDev14941632
SWE-bench Verified76.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)76.8%—
SWE-bench Multilingual70.7%—
GSO26.5%—
WeirdML63.7%—
LMArena Coding1504—
ALE-Bench1,025—
AlgoTune1.77—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 47.3 (#12), Hy4 preview: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Hy4 preview
Terminal-Bench63.1%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard77.5%—
GDPval45.5%—
Remote Labor Index3.8%—
τ²-bench Airline84%—
τ²-bench Banking24.7%—
τ²-bench Retail79.6%—
τ²-bench Telecom92.3%—
Cybench82%—
DeepResearch Bench54.8%—
OSWorld66.3%—
BALROG43.5%—
LMArena Search1180—
METR Time Horizons75%—
Vending-Bench 24,967—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 42.6 (#51), Hy4 preview: 31.9 (#79)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Hy4 preview
NYT Connections (extended)52.5%68.2%
ARC-AGI-237.6%—
SimpleBench62%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.2%—
ARC-AGI-180%—
Chess Puzzles12%—
EnigmaEval11.9%—
EBR-Bench14.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1476—
Mystery Game Puzzles22%—
DTBench89.9%—
LMCA44.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index150.09—
ForecastBench60.7—

Math Hy4 preview leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 38.6 (#132), Hy4 preview: 55.7 (#42)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Hy4 preview
ProofBench36%75%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)34.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 44.9%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202586.1%—
LMArena Math1463—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)20.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 56.5 (#44), Hy4 preview: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Hy4 preview
GPQA Diamond86%—
Humanity's Last Exam25.2%—
SimpleQA Verified45.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.9%—
LMArena Expert1487—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 31.4 (#107), Hy4 preview: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Hy4 preview
GeoBench75%—
VPCT40%—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1462—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 54.3 (#47), Hy4 preview: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Hy4 preview
LMArena Non-English1438—
LMArena Chinese1470—
LMArena French1471—
LMArena German1449—
LMArena Japanese1416—
LMArena Korean1424—
LMArena Russian1447—
LMArena Spanish1458—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 77.5 (#19), Hy4 preview: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Hy4 preview
LMArena Instruction Following1478—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 46.5 (#22), Hy4 preview: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Hy4 preview
CL-bench21.1%—
LMArena Longer Query1480—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 68.1 (#28), Hy4 preview: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Hy4 preview
LMArena Text1451—
LMArena Creative Writing1445—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1687—
LMArena Multi-Turn1466—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.5 better than Hy4 preview?

Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 45.3 on the Noometry Index. Hy4 preview costs 8.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.5 or Hy4 preview?

Hy4 preview is cheaper. It lists at $0.75 per million input tokens and $2.25 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.5 lists at $5 and $25.

Is Claude Opus 4.5 or Hy4 preview better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 54.8 versus 51.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Hy4 preview does, with 1.05M tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.5 and Hy4 preview share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and Hy4 preview has 3.

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