Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.1 vs o3-pro

o3-pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.7 to 40.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic

40.8

Rank #136 Confirmed

o3-pro OpenAI

42.7

Rank #94 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher in 3 categories and o3-pro in 2 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where o3-pro leads 72.1 to 44.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is WeirdML: 45.9% for Claude Opus 4.1 and 58.2% for o3-pro.
  • Claude Opus 4.1 is cheaper at $15 / $75 per million input/output tokens, against $20 / $80 for o3-pro.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.1 and o3-pro specifications
Claude Opus 4.1o3-pro
ProviderAnthropicOpenAI
Noometry Index40.842.7
Released2025-08-052025-06-10
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window200K200K
Max output32K100K
Input $ / M tokens$15$20
Output $ / M tokens$75$80
Results tracked4812

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Category by category

Coding o3-pro leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.3 (#69), o3-pro: 55.1 (#22)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1o3-pro
WeirdML45.9%58.2%
SWE-bench Verified73.3%—
Aider Polyglot—84.9%
LMArena WebDev1390—
LMArena Coding1479—
ALE-Bench674.77—
AlgoTune1.34—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 34.8 (#38), o3-pro: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1o3-pro
Terminal-Bench38%—
GDPval43.6%—
Cybench42%—
DeepResearch Bench48.3%—
LMArena Search1148—
METR Time Horizons66.8%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 31.6 (#70), o3-pro: 24.1 (#152)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1o3-pro
DTBench80%86.9%
LMCA37.1%38.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index144.11147.43
ARC-AGI-2—4.9%
SimpleBench60%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—72.1%
ARC-AGI-1—59.3%
Chess Puzzles7%—
EnigmaEval7.2%—
EBR-Bench7.9%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1443—
Mystery Game Puzzles21%—
ForecastBench62—

Math Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 22.0 (#267), o3-pro: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1o3-pro
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)12.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202568.9%—
LMArena Math1430—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)7.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 41.9 (#93), o3-pro: 29.0 (#234)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1o3-pro
Confabulations17.1%14.2%
Vectara Hallucination Rate11.8%23.3%
GPQA Diamond77.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam11.5%—
LMArena Expert1439—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 26.2 (#114), o3-pro: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1o3-pro
VPCT35%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 52.1 (#90), o3-pro: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1o3-pro
LMArena Non-English1405—
LMArena Chinese1427—
LMArena French1432—
LMArena German1412—
LMArena Japanese1378—
LMArena Korean1381—
LMArena Russian1421—
LMArena Spanish1448—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 75.8 (#53), o3-pro: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1o3-pro
LMArena Instruction Following1436—

Long Context o3-pro leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.5 (#60), o3-pro: 72.1 (#1)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1o3-pro
Fiction.LiveBench—97.2%
LMArena Longer Query1455—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 62.6 (#70), o3-pro: 57.1 (#128)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1o3-pro
Short-Story Creative Writing84.7%84.4%
LMArena Text1419—
LMArena Creative Writing1412—
LMArena Multi-Turn1444—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.1 better than o3-pro?

o3-pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.7 to 40.8 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.1 or o3-pro?

Claude Opus 4.1 is cheaper. It lists at $15 per million input tokens and $75 per million output tokens; o3-pro lists at $20 and $80.

Is Claude Opus 4.1 or o3-pro better for coding?

o3-pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.1 versus 44.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 200K tokens.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.1 and o3-pro share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.1 has 48 scored results on Noometry and o3-pro has 12.

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