Model comparison

Claude Opus 5 vs Trinity Large Thinking

Claude Opus 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 67.8 to 38.6 on the Noometry Index. Trinity Large Thinking costs 26× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 5 Anthropic

67.8

Rank #4 Confirmed

Trinity Large Thinking Arcee AI

38.6

Rank #185 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 5 scores higher in 8 categories and Trinity Large Thinking in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 5 leads 77.2 to 16.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 94.3% for Claude Opus 5 and 16.5% for Trinity Large Thinking.
  • Trinity Large Thinking is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.80 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 5.
  • Claude Opus 5 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.
  • Trinity Large Thinking has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 5 and Trinity Large Thinking specifications
Claude Opus 5Trinity Large Thinking
ProviderAnthropicArcee AI
Noometry Index67.838.6
Released2026-07-242026-04-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M262K
Max output128K80K
Input $ / M tokens$5$0.25
Output $ / M tokens$25$0.80
Results tracked5724

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 67.5 (#5), Trinity Large Thinking: 34.1 (#244)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Trinity Large Thinking
LMArena WebDev16911238
SciCode56.4%36.1%
LMArena Coding15341381
DeepSWE73.6%—
FrontierCode53.4%—
CursorBench46.6%—
FrontierSWE52%—
WeirdML91.8%—
ALE-Bench2,165—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 55.6 (#1), Trinity Large Thinking: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Trinity Large Thinking
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: 77.2 (#4), Trinity Large Thinking: 16.9 (#298)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Trinity Large Thinking
NYT Connections (extended)94.3%16.5%
CritPt29.1%0.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts15261350
ARC-AGI-290.4%—
SimpleBench80.6%—
ARC-AGI-197.5%—
Chess Puzzles42%—
Thematic Generalization—41.6%
EBR-Bench45.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles59%—
DTBench97.9%—
LMCA64.5%—
Surface Evolver Bench—15.6%
Bench to the Future 30.12—
Epoch Capabilities Index162.78—

Math Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 86.2 (#8), Trinity Large Thinking: 37.6 (#149)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Trinity Large Thinking
LMArena Math15311366
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)85.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 473.2%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.9%—
ProofBench99%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 66.8 (#9), Trinity Large Thinking: 40.9 (#113)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Trinity Large Thinking
LMArena Expert15571360
GPQA Diamond93.9%—
SimpleQA Verified59.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—6.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 50.8 (#8), Trinity Large Thinking: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Trinity Large Thinking
LMArena Vision1319—
Blueprint-Bench 230.4%—
Furniture Assembly60.8%—
LMArena Document1516—

Multilingual Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 58.8 (#4), Trinity Large Thinking: 46.2 (#160)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Trinity Large Thinking
LMArena Non-English15011325
LMArena Chinese15741373
LMArena French15191374
LMArena German15241356
LMArena Japanese15161311
LMArena Korean15211306
LMArena Russian15071337
LMArena Spanish15191357

Instruction Following Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 79.2 (#7), Trinity Large Thinking: 70.5 (#162)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Trinity Large Thinking
LMArena Instruction Following15171334

Long Context Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 46.5 (#21), Trinity Large Thinking: 41.3 (#144)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Trinity Large Thinking
LMArena Longer Query15151355

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 79.2 (#1), Trinity Large Thinking: 53.8 (#158)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Trinity Large Thinking
LMArena Text15071340
LMArena Creative Writing14911320
LMArena Multi-Turn14991342
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2133—
EQ-Bench 41385—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 5 better than Trinity Large Thinking?

Claude Opus 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 67.8 to 38.6 on the Noometry Index. Trinity Large Thinking costs 26× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 5 or Trinity Large Thinking?

Trinity Large Thinking is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.80 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 5 lists at $5 and $25.

Is Claude Opus 5 or Trinity Large Thinking better for coding?

Claude Opus 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 67.5 versus 34.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 5 does, with 1M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 5 and Trinity Large Thinking share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 5 has 57 scored results on Noometry and Trinity Large Thinking has 24.

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