Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.5 vs o1-mini

Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic

50.5

Rank #47 Confirmed

o1-mini OpenAI

34.0

Rank #235 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher in 9 categories and o1-mini in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.5 leads 42.6 to 8.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Cybench: 82% for Claude Opus 4.5 and 10% for o1-mini.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.5 and o1-mini specifications
Claude Opus 4.5o1-mini
ProviderAnthropicOpenAI
Noometry Index50.534.0
Released2025-11-012024-09-12
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window200K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6939

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 54.8 (#27), o1-mini: 35.5 (#224)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5o1-mini
WeirdML63.7%36.3%
LMArena Coding15041362
SWE-bench Verified76.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)76.8%—
Aider Polyglot—32.9%
LMArena WebDev1494—
SWE-bench Multilingual70.7%—
GSO26.5%—
LiveBench Coding—48%
ALE-Bench1,025—
AlgoTune1.77—
HumanEval+—89%
MBPP+—78.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 47.3 (#12), o1-mini: 24.6 (#118)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5o1-mini
Cybench82%10%
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%—
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), o1-mini: 8.8 (#346)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5o1-mini
ARC-AGI-237.6%0.8%
SimpleBench62%18.1%
ARC-AGI-180%14%
LMArena Hard Prompts14761333
Epoch Capabilities Index150.09135.82
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)52.5%—
Chess Puzzles12%—
EnigmaEval11.9%—
EBR-Bench14.3%—
LiveBench Reasoning—72.3%
Mystery Game Puzzles22%—
DTBench89.9%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—57.9%
LMCA44.5%—
ForecastBench60.7—
LiveBench—57.8%

Math Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 38.6 (#132), o1-mini: 35.4 (#186)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5o1-mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202586.1%46.9%
LMArena Math14631358
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)20.7%1.7%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)34.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 44.9%—
ProofBench36%—
LiveBench Math—62%
MATH Level 5—89.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 56.5 (#44), o1-mini: 34.9 (#192)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5o1-mini
GPQA Diamond86%62.4%
LMArena Expert14871316
Humanity's Last Exam25.2%—
SimpleQA Verified45.7%—
Confabulations—18.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 31.4 (#107), o1-mini: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5o1-mini
GeoBench75%—
VPCT40%—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1462—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 54.3 (#47), o1-mini: 43.6 (#182)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5o1-mini
LMArena Non-English14381289
LMArena Chinese14701314
LMArena French14711293
LMArena German14491278
LMArena Japanese14161245
LMArena Korean14241223
LMArena Russian14471283
LMArena Spanish14581303

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 77.5 (#19), o1-mini: 66.7 (#206)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5o1-mini
LMArena Instruction Following14781304
LiveBench Instruction Following—65.4%

Long Context Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 46.5 (#22), o1-mini: 40.1 (#161)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5o1-mini
LMArena Longer Query14801320
CL-bench21.1%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 68.1 (#28), o1-mini: 48.4 (#202)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5o1-mini
LMArena Text14511317
LMArena Creative Writing14451244
LMArena Multi-Turn14661314
Short-Story Creative Writing—64.9%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1687—
LiveBench Language—40.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.5 better than o1-mini?

Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.5 or o1-mini better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 54.8 versus 35.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.5 and o1-mini share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and o1-mini has 39.

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