Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.8 vs o1-mini

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic

60.7

Rank #13 Confirmed

o1-mini OpenAI

34.0

Rank #235 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.8 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 4.8 leads 64.7 to 8.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 92.5% for Claude Opus 4.8 and 14% for o1-mini.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.8 and o1-mini specifications
Claude Opus 4.8o1-mini
ProviderAnthropicOpenAI
Noometry Index60.734.0
Released2026-05-282024-09-12
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6539

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 59.9 (#12), o1-mini: 35.5 (#224)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8o1-mini
WeirdML82.9%36.3%
LMArena Coding14901362
DeepSWE59%—
FrontierCode46.5%—
Aider Polyglot—32.9%
LMArena WebDev1556—
SciCode53.5%—
GSO47.1%—
LiveBench Coding—48%
ALE-Bench1,564—
HumanEval+—89%
MBPP+—78.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 47.6 (#11), o1-mini: 24.6 (#118)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8o1-mini
APEX-Agents48.9%—
OSWorld 2.020.6%—
Remote Labor Index8.3%—
τ²-bench Banking39.7%—
Cybench—10%
DeepResearch Bench50.2%—
PostTrainBench33.8%—
GBAEval70.9%—
GDP.pdf24%—
LMArena Search1204—
Vending-Bench 25,787—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 64.7 (#16), o1-mini: 8.8 (#346)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8o1-mini
ARC-AGI-272.1%0.8%
SimpleBench64.8%18.1%
ARC-AGI-192.5%14%
LMArena Hard Prompts14821333
Epoch Capabilities Index158.21135.82
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)91.1%—
CritPt20.9%—
Chess Puzzles34%—
EnigmaEval23.5%—
EBR-Bench28.6%—
LiveBench Reasoning—72.3%
Mystery Game Puzzles36%—
DTBench94.9%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—57.9%
LMCA57.5%—
Surface Evolver Bench87.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
ForecastBench59.9—
LiveBench—57.8%

Math Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 78.4 (#13), o1-mini: 35.4 (#186)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#29), o1-mini: 34.9 (#192)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8o1-mini
GPQA Diamond91%62.4%
LMArena Expert15021316
SimpleQA Verified53%—
Confabulations—18.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 42.9 (#26), o1-mini: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8o1-mini
LMArena Vision1294—
Blueprint-Bench 214.5%—
Furniture Assembly42.5%—
LMArena Document1475—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 55.2 (#33), o1-mini: 43.6 (#182)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8o1-mini
LMArena Non-English14501289
LMArena Chinese15071314
LMArena French14811293
LMArena German14721278
LMArena Japanese14401245
LMArena Korean14321223
LMArena Russian14741283
LMArena Spanish14661303

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 77.4 (#24), o1-mini: 66.7 (#206)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8o1-mini
LMArena Instruction Following14761304
LiveBench Instruction Following—65.4%

Long Context Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#35), o1-mini: 40.1 (#161)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8o1-mini
LMArena Longer Query14831320

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 72.0 (#16), o1-mini: 48.4 (#202)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8o1-mini
LMArena Text14611317
LMArena Creative Writing14541244
LMArena Multi-Turn14761314
Short-Story Creative Writing—64.9%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840—
EQ-Bench 41281—
LiveBench Language—40.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than o1-mini?

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.8 or o1-mini better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.9 versus 35.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.8 and o1-mini share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.8 has 65 scored results on Noometry and o1-mini has 39.

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