Model comparison

Claude Opus 4 vs Nemotron 4 340b Instruct

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 35.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4 Anthropic

42.9

Rank #93 Confirmed

Nemotron 4 340b Instruct NVIDIA

35.3

Rank #218 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4 scores higher in 8 categories and Nemotron 4 340b Instruct in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Opus 4 leads 61.4 to 42.9.
  • Nemotron 4 340b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4 and Nemotron 4 340b Instruct specifications
Claude Opus 4Nemotron 4 340b Instruct
ProviderAnthropicNVIDIA
Noometry Index42.935.3
Released2025-05-222024-06-14
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked5617

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 47.8 (#55), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 34.6 (#223)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Nemotron 4 340b Instruct
LMArena Coding14421209
SWE-bench Verified70.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)67.6%—
Aider Polyglot72%—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML43.7%—
AlgoTune1.33—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 34.5 (#39), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Nemotron 4 340b Instruct
Cybench38%—
DeepResearch Bench46.8%—
LMArena Search1127—
METR Time Horizons63.9%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 27.4 (#104), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 22.4 (#180)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Nemotron 4 340b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts13991202
ARC-AGI-28.6%—
SimpleBench58.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark74.3%—
ARC-AGI-135.7%—
CritPt0.3%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
DTBench81.6%—
LMCA37.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index142.67—
ForecastBench61.1—

Math Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 40.2 (#80), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 31.7 (#193)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Nemotron 4 340b Instruct
LMArena Math13911216
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202564.4%—
Omni-MATH61.6%—
MATH Level 585%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 43.9 (#82), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 31.4 (#212)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Nemotron 4 340b Instruct
LMArena Expert13841171
GPQA Diamond76.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam10.7%—
MMLU-Pro87.5%—
Confabulations15.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
GPQA (HELM)70.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 30.9 (#101), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Nemotron 4 340b Instruct
LMArena Vision1192—
GeoBench49%—
VPCT38%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 49.0 (#133), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 38.0 (#228)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Nemotron 4 340b Instruct
LMArena Non-English13621206
LMArena Chinese13861214
LMArena French13701196
LMArena German13911192
LMArena Japanese13321128
LMArena Korean13181148
LMArena Russian13921219
LMArena Spanish13881195

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 77.3 (#26), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 63.3 (#227)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Nemotron 4 340b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following14061203
IFEval91.8%—

Long Context Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 39.5 (#167), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 37.1 (#216)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Nemotron 4 340b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query14221225
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 61.4 (#85), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 42.9 (#229)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Nemotron 4 340b Instruct
LMArena Text13771225
LMArena Creative Writing13861203
LMArena Multi-Turn13961214
Short-Story Creative Writing83.6%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1580—
WildBench85.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4 better than Nemotron 4 340b Instruct?

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 35.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4 or Nemotron 4 340b Instruct better for coding?

Claude Opus 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.8 versus 34.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4 and Nemotron 4 340b Instruct share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4 has 56 scored results on Noometry and Nemotron 4 340b Instruct has 17.

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