Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Opus 5 vs Granite 4.1 30B

Claude Opus 5 has enough public results to be ranked (#4); Granite 4.1 30B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 5 Anthropic

67.7

Rank #4 Confirmed

Granite 4.1 30B IBM

33.4

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 5 scores higher in 2 categories and Granite 4.1 30B in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 5 leads 77.1 to 21.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 56.4% for Claude Opus 5 and 25.8% for Granite 4.1 30B.
  • Granite 4.1 30B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 5Granite 4.1 30B
ProviderAnthropicIBM
Noometry Index67.733.4
Released2026-07-242026-04-29
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked572

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 67.0 (#5), Granite 4.1 30B: 34.6

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Granite 4.1 30B
SciCode56.4%25.8%
DeepSWE73.6%—
FrontierCode53.4%—
CursorBench46.6%—
LMArena WebDev1694—
FrontierSWE52%—
WeirdML91.8%—
LMArena Coding1533—
ALE-Bench2,165—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 55.5 (#1), Granite 4.1 30B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Granite 4.1 30B
APEX-Agents65.8%—
OSWorld 2.031.4%—
τ²-bench Banking48.7%—
PostTrainBench35%—
BALROG63.4%—
GBAEval79.6%—
GDP.pdf24%—
Vending-Bench 211,182—

Reasoning Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 77.1 (#3), Granite 4.1 30B: 21.7

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Granite 4.1 30B
CritPt29.1%0%
ARC-AGI-290.4%—
SimpleBench80.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.3%—
ARC-AGI-197.5%—
Chess Puzzles42%—
EBR-Bench45.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1525—
Mystery Game Puzzles59%—
DTBench97.9%—
LMCA64.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.12—
Epoch Capabilities Index162.67—

Math Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 86.1 (#6), Granite 4.1 30B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Granite 4.1 30B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)85.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 473.2%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.9%—
ProofBench99%—
LMArena Math1533—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 66.8 (#8), Granite 4.1 30B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Granite 4.1 30B
GPQA Diamond93.9%—
SimpleQA Verified59.9%—
LMArena Expert1558—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 51.1 (#6), Granite 4.1 30B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Granite 4.1 30B
LMArena Vision1321—
Blueprint-Bench 230.4%—
Furniture Assembly60.8%—
LMArena Document1516—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 58.8 (#3), Granite 4.1 30B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Granite 4.1 30B
LMArena Non-English1500—
LMArena Chinese1575—
LMArena French1522—
LMArena German1522—
LMArena Japanese1510—
LMArena Korean1526—
LMArena Russian1507—
LMArena Spanish1519—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 79.3 (#5), Granite 4.1 30B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Granite 4.1 30B
LMArena Instruction Following1516—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 46.5 (#20), Granite 4.1 30B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Granite 4.1 30B
LMArena Longer Query1516—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 79.3 (#2), Granite 4.1 30B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Granite 4.1 30B
LMArena Text1506—
LMArena Creative Writing1491—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2133—
EQ-Bench 41385—
LMArena Multi-Turn1496—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 5 better than Granite 4.1 30B?

Claude Opus 5 has enough public results to be ranked (#4); Granite 4.1 30B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Claude Opus 5 or Granite 4.1 30B better for coding?

Claude Opus 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 67.0 versus 34.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 5 and Granite 4.1 30B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 5 has 57 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.1 30B has 2.

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