Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 32.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 8 categories and Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 61.9 to 19.5.
  • Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
ProviderAnthropicAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index58.232.7
Released2026-02-04—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6816

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.2 (#20), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 35.2 (#227)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Coding15361210
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), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 2 0325 32b 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), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 23.6 (#175)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts15271208
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), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 26.8 (#255)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Math15191208
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)66%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions78.5%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.4%—
ProofBench50%—
Omni-MATH—16.1%
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), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 19.5 (#279)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
GPQA Diamond90.5%—
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
MMLU-Pro—41.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—
GPQA (HELM)—28.7%
LMArena Expert1546—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.3 (#74), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.9 (#6), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 34.8 (#248)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Non-English14891160
LMArena Chinese15511192
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), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 61.5 (#244)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following15231186
IFEval—78%

Long Context Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 36.2 (#234)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query15201194
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.5 (#10), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 42.1 (#236)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Text15031218
LMArena Creative Writing15051199
LMArena Multi-Turn15131221
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
WildBench—73.4%
EQ-Bench 41223—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 32.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.6 or Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.2 versus 35.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct has 16.

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