Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.2

Rank #20 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 57.8 to 23.5.
  • Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct
ProviderAnthropicNVIDIA
Noometry Index58.235.9
Released2026-02-04—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6812

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.2 (#20), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct: 35.6 (#222)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct
LMArena Coding15361223
SWE-bench Verified78.7%—
FrontierCode26.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.6%—
LMArena WebDev1547—
SWE-bench Multilingual72%—
GSO41.2%—
WeirdML78%—
ALE-Bench996.5—
AlgoTune1.47—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 51.1 (#4), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct
Terminal-Bench79.8%—
APEX-Agents46.3%—
Remote Labor Index4.2%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
Cybench93%—
DeepResearch Bench55.3%—
GBAEval44.1%—
LMArena Search1253—
METR Time Horizons78.9%—
Vending-Bench 28,018—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.8 (#23), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct: 23.5 (#177)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts15271203
ARC-AGI-269.2%—
SimpleBench67.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.1%—
ARC-AGI-194%—
Chess Puzzles17%—
EnigmaEval7.6%—
Thematic Generalization80.6%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles25%—
DTBench91.2%—
LMCA55.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index155.24—
ForecastBench60—

Math Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 63.0 (#31), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct: 34.6 (#193)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct
LMArena Math15191230
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)66%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions78.5%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.4%—
ProofBench50%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)40.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)22.9%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.9 (#26), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct: 31.9 (#218)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct
LMArena Expert15461167
GPQA Diamond90.5%—
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.3 (#74), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.9 (#6), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct: 36.1 (#241)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct
LMArena Non-English14891181
LMArena Chinese15511180
LMArena Russian14971187
LMArena French1513—
LMArena German1502—
LMArena Japanese1484—
LMArena Korean1464—
LMArena Spanish1510—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.5 (#4), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct: 62.9 (#233)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following15231201

Long Context Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct: 36.5 (#230)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query15201205
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.5 (#10), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct: 43.4 (#229)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct
LMArena Text15031228
LMArena Creative Writing15051213
LMArena Multi-Turn15131227
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
EQ-Bench 41223—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.6 or Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.2 versus 35.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct has 12.

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