Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Wizardlm 70b

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 33.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.2

Rank #20 Confirmed

Wizardlm 70b Microsoft

33.0

Rank #249 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 7 categories and Wizardlm 70b in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 73.5 to 34.8.
  • Wizardlm 70b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Wizardlm 70b specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Wizardlm 70b
ProviderAnthropicMicrosoft
Noometry Index58.233.0
Released2026-02-04—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6812

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.2 (#20), Wizardlm 70b: 31.4 (#285)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Wizardlm 70b
LMArena Coding15361081
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), Wizardlm 70b: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Wizardlm 70b
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), Wizardlm 70b: 20.7 (#234)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Wizardlm 70b
LMArena Hard Prompts15271079
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), Wizardlm 70b: 32.2 (#218)

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.9 (#26), Wizardlm 70b: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Wizardlm 70b
GPQA Diamond90.5%—
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—
LMArena Expert1546—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.3 (#74), Wizardlm 70b: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Wizardlm 70b
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.9 (#6), Wizardlm 70b: 29.6 (#265)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Wizardlm 70b
LMArena Non-English14891078
LMArena Chinese15511052
LMArena German15021083
LMArena Russian14971155
LMArena French1513—
LMArena Japanese1484—
LMArena Korean1464—
LMArena Spanish1510—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.5 (#4), Wizardlm 70b: 56.3 (#273)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Wizardlm 70b
LMArena Instruction Following15231093

Long Context Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Wizardlm 70b: 33.3 (#263)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Wizardlm 70b
LMArena Longer Query15201097
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.5 (#10), Wizardlm 70b: 34.8 (#269)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Wizardlm 70b
LMArena Text15031120
LMArena Creative Writing15051149
LMArena Multi-Turn15131108
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
EQ-Bench 41223—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Wizardlm 70b?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 33.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.6 or Wizardlm 70b better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.2 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Wizardlm 70b share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Wizardlm 70b has 12.

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