Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Olmo 3.1 32b Think

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 37.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.2

Rank #20 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 8 categories and Olmo 3.1 32b Think in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 57.8 to 25.2.
  • Olmo 3.1 32b Think has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Olmo 3.1 32b Think specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Olmo 3.1 32b Think
ProviderAnthropicAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index58.237.9
Released2026-02-04—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6815

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.2 (#20), Olmo 3.1 32b Think: 37.7 (#189)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 3.1 32b Think
LMArena Coding15361291
SWE-bench Verified78.7%—
FrontierCode26.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.6%—
LMArena WebDev1547—
SWE-bench Multilingual72%—
GSO41.2%—
WeirdML78%—
ALE-Bench996.5—
AlgoTune1.47—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 51.1 (#4), Olmo 3.1 32b Think: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 3.1 32b Think
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: 57.8 (#23), Olmo 3.1 32b Think: 25.2 (#150)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 3.1 32b Think
LMArena Hard Prompts15271272
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%—
Mystery Game Puzzles25%—
DTBench91.2%—
LMCA55.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index155.24—
ForecastBench60—

Math Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 63.0 (#31), Olmo 3.1 32b Think: 36.3 (#168)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 3.1 32b Think
LMArena Math15191305
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)66%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions78.5%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.4%—
ProofBench50%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)40.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)22.9%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.9 (#26), Olmo 3.1 32b Think: 35.7 (#181)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 3.1 32b Think
LMArena Expert15461295
GPQA Diamond90.5%—
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.3 (#74), Olmo 3.1 32b Think: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 3.1 32b Think
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.9 (#6), Olmo 3.1 32b Think: 38.1 (#231)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 3.1 32b Think
LMArena Non-English14891209
LMArena Chinese15511242
LMArena French15131260
LMArena German15021262
LMArena Russian14971193
LMArena Spanish15101289
LMArena Japanese1484—
LMArena Korean1464—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.5 (#4), Olmo 3.1 32b Think: 65.6 (#218)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 3.1 32b Think
LMArena Instruction Following15231247

Long Context Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Olmo 3.1 32b Think: 38.6 (#195)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 3.1 32b Think
LMArena Longer Query15201272
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.5 (#10), Olmo 3.1 32b Think: 46.2 (#220)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 3.1 32b Think
LMArena Text15031272
LMArena Creative Writing15051226
LMArena Multi-Turn15131252
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
EQ-Bench 41223—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Olmo 3.1 32b Think?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 37.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.6 or Olmo 3.1 32b Think better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.2 versus 37.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Olmo 3.1 32b Think share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 3.1 32b Think has 15.

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