# Claude 3 Opus vs GPT-5.6 Sol

> GPT-5.6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 64.4 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-3-opus-vs-gpt-5-6-sol
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 28

## Summary

- They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.6 Sol in 10 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.6 Sol leads 85.5 to 13.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.7% for Claude 3 Opus and 100% for GPT-5.6 Sol.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 3 Opus | GPT-5.6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 29.3 | 64.4 |
| Rank | 300 | 6 |
| Context | — | 1.05M |
| Input $/M | — | $4 |
| Output $/M | — | $20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Claude 3 Opus: 32.4 (#261)
- GPT-5.6 Sol: 61.1 (#7)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | GPT-5.6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 19.2% | 89.4% |
| LMArena Coding | 1264 | 1493 |
| DeepSWE | — | 72.7% |
| FrontierCode | — | 47.5% |
| CursorBench | — | 41.7% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1619 |
| FrontierSWE | — | 32.2% |
| SciCode | — | 57.1% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.5% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.6% | — |
| MirrorCode | — | 20% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.4% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 2,177 |
| HumanEval+ | 77.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 73.3% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 3 Opus: 24.3 (#110)
- GPT-5.6 Sol: 50.2 (#7)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | GPT-5.6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | — | 51.4% |
| OSWorld 2.0 | — | 27.3% |
| τ²-bench Banking | — | 46.9% |
| Cybench | 10% | — |
| PostTrainBench | — | 36.2% |
| BALROG | — | 60% |
| GBAEval | — | 52.6% |
| GDP.pdf | — | 30.7% |
| LMArena Search | — | 1257 |
| METR Time Horizons | 29.5% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 9,619 |

## Reasoning

- Claude 3 Opus: 14.2 (#318)
- GPT-5.6 Sol: 74.7 (#6)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | GPT-5.6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | 23.5% | 71.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | 5% | 64% |
| EnigmaEval | 0.8% | 37.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1246 | 1481 |
| DTBench | 61.6% | 96% |
| LMCA | 17% | 59.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 126.91 | 161.99 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 92.5% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 67% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 93.8% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 97.5% |
| CritPt | — | 32.3% |
| EBR-Bench | — | 44.8% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 40.6% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 58% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 93.1% |
| Bench to the Future 3 | — | 0.14 |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | — |
| LiveBench | 49.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 88.5% | — |

## Math

- Claude 3 Opus: 13.9 (#293)
- GPT-5.6 Sol: 85.5 (#7)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | GPT-5.6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.7% | 100% |
| LMArena Math | 1273 | 1472 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 89.1% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 82.9% |
| ProofBench | — | 83% |
| LiveBench Math | 43.6% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 37.5% | — |
| FrontierMath Erdős | — | 0% |

## Knowledge

- Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#262)
- GPT-5.6 Sol: 64.3 (#16)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | GPT-5.6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.2% | 93.5% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 12.6% | 69.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | 1517 |
| Confabulations | 22.7% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 12.4% |
| MMLU | 84.6% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude 3 Opus: 26.6 (#112)
- GPT-5.6 Sol: 48.9 (#8)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | GPT-5.6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1023 | 1281 |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | — | 33.6% |
| Furniture Assembly | — | 56.7% |
| LMArena Document | — | 1483 |

## Multilingual

- Claude 3 Opus: 41.6 (#202)
- GPT-5.6 Sol: 55.4 (#32)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | GPT-5.6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1258 | 1450 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1248 | 1523 |
| LMArena French | 1274 | 1475 |
| LMArena German | 1258 | 1476 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1204 | 1475 |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | 1434 |
| LMArena Russian | 1280 | 1466 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1246 | 1449 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 3 Opus: 64.3 (#223)
- GPT-5.6 Sol: 77.8 (#16)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | GPT-5.6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1248 | 1480 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.9% | — |

## Long Context

- Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#197)
- GPT-5.6 Sol: 45.3 (#42)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | GPT-5.6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1259 | 1479 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 3 Opus: 47.4 (#208)
- GPT-5.6 Sol: 73.5 (#12)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | GPT-5.6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1262 | 1456 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | 1450 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1456 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1972 |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 1250 |
| LiveBench Language | 50.4% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 3 Opus better than GPT-5.6 Sol?

GPT-5.6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 64.4 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 3 Opus or GPT-5.6 Sol better for coding?

GPT-5.6 Sol scores higher on coding benchmarks: 61.1 versus 32.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and GPT-5.6 Sol share?

28 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.6 Sol has 64.