Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.8 vs Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 32.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher in 8 categories and Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.8 leads 78.2 to 13.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 98.3% for Claude Opus 4.8 and 4.4% for Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B.
  • Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

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Claude Opus 4.8 and Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B specifications
Claude Opus 4.8Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
ProviderAnthropicAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index60.732.6
Released2026-05-282024-11-21
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6514

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 60.2 (#9), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 35.4 (#211)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Coding14911236
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 (#10), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
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: 64.6 (#14), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 22.9 (#172)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Hard Prompts14811220
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 Index158.3—
ForecastBench59.9—

Math Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 78.2 (#11), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 13.3 (#297)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.3%4.4%
LMArena Math14871242
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)80%—
FrontierMath Tier 456.1%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions91.8%—
ProofBench69%—
MATH Level 5—42.7%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)47.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)31.3%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#26), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 25.1 (#257)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
GPQA Diamond91%46.3%
SimpleQA Verified53%—
LMArena Expert1501—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 43.2 (#20), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Vision1295—
Blueprint-Bench 214.5%—
Furniture Assembly42.5%—
LMArena Document1475—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 55.4 (#31), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 40.1 (#217)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Non-English14501236
LMArena Chinese15091249
LMArena Russian14761246
LMArena French1482—
LMArena German1470—
LMArena Japanese1440—
LMArena Korean1432—
LMArena Spanish1470—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 77.6 (#22), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 65.0 (#222)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Instruction Following14761233

Long Context Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#37), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 37.1 (#217)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Longer Query14821224

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 72.1 (#17), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 45.8 (#218)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Text14601256
LMArena Creative Writing14531231
LMArena Multi-Turn14761252
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840—
EQ-Bench 41281—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B?

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 32.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.8 or Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 60.2 versus 35.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.8 and Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.8 has 65 scored results on Noometry and Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B has 14.

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