Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Laguna M.1

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.3

Rank #18 Confirmed

Laguna M.1 Poolside

31.9

Rank #252 Reported

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 3 categories and Laguna M.1 in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 62.7 to 20.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ProofBench: 50% for Claude Opus 4.6 and 0% for Laguna M.1.
  • Claude Opus 4.6 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.
  • Laguna M.1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Laguna M.1 specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Laguna M.1
ProviderAnthropicPoolside
Noometry Index58.331.9
Released2026-02-042026-04-28
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M262K
Max output128K33K
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked683

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.7 (#15), Laguna M.1: 36.4 (#195)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Laguna M.1
LMArena WebDev15461348
SWE-bench Verified78.7%—
FrontierCode26.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.6%—
SWE-bench Multilingual72%—
GSO41.2%—
WeirdML78%—
LMArena Coding1535—
ALE-Bench996.5—
AlgoTune1.47—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 51.0 (#4), Laguna M.1: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Laguna M.1
Terminal-Bench79.8%—
APEX-Agents46.3%—
Remote Labor Index4.2%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
Cybench93%—
DeepResearch Bench55.3%—
GBAEval44.1%—
LMArena Search1253—
METR Time Horizons78.9%—
Vending-Bench 28,018—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.7 (#21), Laguna M.1: 21.9 (#187)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Laguna M.1
ARC-AGI-269.2%—
SimpleBench67.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.1%—
ARC-AGI-194%—
Chess Puzzles17%—
EnigmaEval7.6%—
Thematic Generalization80.6%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1527—
Mystery Game Puzzles25%—
DTBench91.2%—
LMCA55.8%—
Surface Evolver Bench—15.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index155.36—
ForecastBench60—

Math Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 62.7 (#25), Laguna M.1: 20.3 (#276)

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.8 (#23), Laguna M.1: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Laguna M.1
GPQA Diamond90.5%—
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—
LMArena Expert1546—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.0 (#67), Laguna M.1: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Laguna M.1
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 58.2 (#4), Laguna M.1: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Laguna M.1
LMArena Non-English1490—
LMArena Chinese1551—
LMArena French1513—
LMArena German1504—
LMArena Japanese1484—
LMArena Korean1465—
LMArena Russian1497—
LMArena Spanish1512—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.7 (#3), Laguna M.1: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Laguna M.1
LMArena Instruction Following1523—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Laguna M.1: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Laguna M.1
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—
LMArena Longer Query1520—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.7 (#9), Laguna M.1: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Laguna M.1
LMArena Text1504—
LMArena Creative Writing1506—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
EQ-Bench 41223—
LMArena Multi-Turn1514—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Laguna M.1?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.6 or Laguna M.1 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.7 versus 36.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 4.6 does, with 1M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Laguna M.1 share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Laguna M.1 has 3.

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