Model comparison

Claude Opus 4 vs o1-mini

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 30 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4 Anthropic

43.1

Rank #100 Confirmed

o1-mini OpenAI

34.0

Rank #235 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 30 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4 scores higher in 8 categories and o1-mini in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4 leads 27.3 to 8.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SimpleBench: 58.8% for Claude Opus 4 and 18.1% for o1-mini.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4 and o1-mini specifications
Claude Opus 4o1-mini
ProviderAnthropicOpenAI
Noometry Index43.134.0
Released2025-05-222024-09-12
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked5639

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 47.2 (#62), o1-mini: 35.5 (#224)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4o1-mini
Aider Polyglot72%32.9%
WeirdML43.7%36.3%
LMArena Coding14421362
SWE-bench Verified70.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)67.6%—
GSO6.9%—
LiveBench Coding—48%
AlgoTune1.33—
HumanEval+—89%
MBPP+—78.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 34.8 (#42), o1-mini: 24.6 (#118)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4o1-mini
Cybench38%10%
DeepResearch Bench46.8%—
LMArena Search1127—
METR Time Horizons63.9%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 27.3 (#121), o1-mini: 8.8 (#346)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4o1-mini
ARC-AGI-28.6%0.8%
SimpleBench58.8%18.1%
ARC-AGI-135.7%14%
LMArena Hard Prompts13991333
Epoch Capabilities Index142.67135.82
Kagi LLM Benchmark74.3%—
CritPt0.3%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
LiveBench Reasoning—72.3%
DTBench81.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—57.9%
LMCA37.4%—
ForecastBench61.1—
LiveBench—57.8%

Math Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 42.0 (#86), o1-mini: 35.4 (#186)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4o1-mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202564.4%46.9%
LMArena Math13901358
MATH Level 585%89.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%1.7%
Omni-MATH61.6%—
LiveBench Math—62%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 44.0 (#88), o1-mini: 34.9 (#192)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4o1-mini
GPQA Diamond76.3%62.4%
Confabulations15.9%18.6%
LMArena Expert13861316
Humanity's Last Exam10.7%—
MMLU-Pro87.5%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
GPQA (HELM)70.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 31.5 (#106), o1-mini: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4o1-mini
LMArena Vision1192—
GeoBench49%—
VPCT38%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 48.8 (#138), o1-mini: 43.6 (#182)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4o1-mini
LMArena Non-English13621289
LMArena Chinese13861314
LMArena French13721293
LMArena German13911278
LMArena Japanese13311245
LMArena Korean13211223
LMArena Russian13921283
LMArena Spanish13891303

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 77.1 (#28), o1-mini: 66.7 (#206)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4o1-mini
LMArena Instruction Following14061304
LiveBench Instruction Following—65.4%
IFEval91.8%—

Long Context Too close to call

Claude Opus 4: 39.6 (#172), o1-mini: 40.1 (#161)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4o1-mini
LMArena Longer Query14221320
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 61.2 (#89), o1-mini: 48.4 (#202)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4o1-mini
LMArena Text13771317
LMArena Creative Writing13871244
Short-Story Creative Writing83.6%64.9%
LMArena Multi-Turn13961314
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1580—
WildBench85.2%—
LiveBench Language—40.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4 better than o1-mini?

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4 or o1-mini better for coding?

Claude Opus 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.2 versus 35.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4 and o1-mini share?

30 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4 has 56 scored results on Noometry and o1-mini has 39.

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