Model comparison
Claude Opus 4.6 vs Granite 4.1 30B
Claude Opus 4.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#20); Granite 4.1 30B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 57.8 to 22.4.
- Granite 4.1 30B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Opus 4.6 | Granite 4.1 30B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 58.2 | 34.0 |
| Released | 2026-02-04 | 2026-04-29 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1M | — |
| Max output | 128K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $5 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $25 | — |
| Results tracked | 68 | 2 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads
Claude Opus 4.6: 57.2 (#20), Granite 4.1 30B: 35.2
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Granite 4.1 30B |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 78.7% | — |
| FrontierCode | 26.6% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 75.6% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1547 | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 72% | — |
| SciCode | — | 25.8% |
| GSO | 41.2% | — |
| WeirdML | 78% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1536 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 996.5 | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.47 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Opus 4.6: 51.1 (#4), Granite 4.1 30B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Granite 4.1 30B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 79.8% | — |
| APEX-Agents | 46.3% | — |
| Remote Labor Index | 4.2% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 27.3% | — |
| Cybench | 93% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 55.3% | — |
| GBAEval | 44.1% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1253 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 78.9% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 8,018 | — |
Reasoning Claude Opus 4.6 leads
Claude Opus 4.6: 57.8 (#23), Granite 4.1 30B: 22.4
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Granite 4.1 30B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 69.2% | — |
| SimpleBench | 67.6% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 83.6% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 92.1% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 94% | — |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | 17% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 7.6% | — |
| Thematic Generalization | 80.6% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 12.7% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1527 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 25% | — |
| DTBench | 91.2% | — |
| LMCA | 55.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 155.24 | — |
| ForecastBench | 60 | — |
Math Not comparable
Claude Opus 4.6: 63.0 (#31), Granite 4.1 30B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Granite 4.1 30B |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 66% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 26.8% | — |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 78.5% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 94.4% | — |
| ProofBench | 50% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1519 | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 40.7% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 22.9% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude Opus 4.6: 61.9 (#26), Granite 4.1 30B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Granite 4.1 30B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 90.5% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 34.4% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 47% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 12.2% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1546 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude Opus 4.6: 37.3 (#74), Granite 4.1 30B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Granite 4.1 30B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1316 | — |
| Furniture Assembly | 28.3% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1507 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Opus 4.6: 57.9 (#6), Granite 4.1 30B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Granite 4.1 30B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1489 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1551 | — |
| LMArena French | 1513 | — |
| LMArena German | 1502 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1484 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1464 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1497 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1510 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Opus 4.6: 79.5 (#4), Granite 4.1 30B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Granite 4.1 30B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1523 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Granite 4.1 30B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Granite 4.1 30B |
|---|---|---|
| CL-bench | 20.7% | — |
| CL-bench Life | 17% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1520 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Opus 4.6: 73.5 (#10), Granite 4.1 30B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Granite 4.1 30B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1503 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1505 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1809 | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1223 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1513 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Granite 4.1 30B?
Claude Opus 4.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#20); Granite 4.1 30B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Claude Opus 4.6 or Granite 4.1 30B better for coding?
Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.2 versus 35.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Granite 4.1 30B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.1 30B has 2.