Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.8 vs Olmo 7b Instruct

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic

60.7

Rank #13 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher in 6 categories and Olmo 7b Instruct in 0 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.8 leads 78.4 to 30.2.
  • Olmo 7b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.8 and Olmo 7b Instruct specifications
Claude Opus 4.8Olmo 7b Instruct
ProviderAnthropicAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index60.730.3
Released2026-05-28—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6510

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 59.9 (#12), Olmo 7b Instruct: 29.6 (#303)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Coding14901016
DeepSWE59%—
FrontierCode46.5%—
LMArena WebDev1556—
SciCode53.5%—
GSO47.1%—
WeirdML82.9%—
ALE-Bench1,564—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 47.6 (#11), Olmo 7b Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Olmo 7b Instruct
APEX-Agents48.9%—
OSWorld 2.020.6%—
Remote Labor Index8.3%—
τ²-bench Banking39.7%—
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), Olmo 7b Instruct: 18.8 (#274)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts1482993
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench64.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)91.1%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
CritPt20.9%—
Chess Puzzles34%—
EnigmaEval23.5%—
EBR-Bench28.6%—
Mystery Game Puzzles36%—
DTBench94.9%—
LMCA57.5%—
Surface Evolver Bench87.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
Epoch Capabilities Index158.21—
ForecastBench59.9—

Math Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 78.4 (#13), Olmo 7b Instruct: 30.2 (#237)

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#29), Olmo 7b Instruct: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Olmo 7b Instruct
GPQA Diamond91%—
SimpleQA Verified53%—
LMArena Expert1502—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 42.9 (#26), Olmo 7b Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Vision1294—
Blueprint-Bench 214.5%—
Furniture Assembly42.5%—
LMArena Document1475—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 55.2 (#33), Olmo 7b Instruct: 24.0 (#291)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Non-English1450977
LMArena Chinese15071014
LMArena Russian1474947
LMArena French1481—
LMArena German1472—
LMArena Japanese1440—
LMArena Korean1432—
LMArena Spanish1466—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 77.4 (#24), Olmo 7b Instruct: 49.0 (#301)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following1476978

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#35), Olmo 7b Instruct: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1483—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 72.0 (#16), Olmo 7b Instruct: 25.8 (#303)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Text14611032
LMArena Creative Writing1454990
LMArena Multi-Turn14761007
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840—
EQ-Bench 41281—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than Olmo 7b Instruct?

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.8 or Olmo 7b Instruct better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.9 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.8 and Olmo 7b Instruct share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.8 has 65 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 7b Instruct has 10.

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