Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Ring-2.6-1T

Claude Opus 4.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#20); Ring-2.6-1T does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.2

Rank #20 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 2 categories and Ring-2.6-1T in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 57.8 to 26.1.
  • Ring-2.6-1T has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Ring-2.6-1T specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Ring-2.6-1T
ProviderAnthropicAnt Group (inclusionAI)
Noometry Index58.236.9
Released2026-02-042026-05-14
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked683

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.2 (#20), Ring-2.6-1T: 40.7

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Ring-2.6-1T
ALE-Bench996.5432.57
SWE-bench Verified78.7%—
FrontierCode26.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.6%—
LMArena WebDev1547—
SWE-bench Multilingual72%—
SciCode—42.4%
GSO41.2%—
WeirdML78%—
LMArena Coding1536—
AlgoTune1.47—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 51.1 (#4), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Ring-2.6-1T
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), Ring-2.6-1T: 26.1

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Ring-2.6-1T
ARC-AGI-269.2%—
SimpleBench67.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.1%—
ARC-AGI-194%—
CritPt—3.7%
Chess Puzzles17%—
EnigmaEval7.6%—
Thematic Generalization80.6%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1527—
Mystery Game Puzzles25%—
DTBench91.2%—
LMCA55.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index155.24—
ForecastBench60—

Math Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 63.0 (#31), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.9 (#26), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Ring-2.6-1T
GPQA Diamond90.5%—
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—
LMArena Expert1546—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.3 (#74), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Ring-2.6-1T
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.9 (#6), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Ring-2.6-1T
LMArena Non-English1489—
LMArena Chinese1551—
LMArena French1513—
LMArena German1502—
LMArena Japanese1484—
LMArena Korean1464—
LMArena Russian1497—
LMArena Spanish1510—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.5 (#4), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Ring-2.6-1T
LMArena Instruction Following1523—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Ring-2.6-1T
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—
LMArena Longer Query1520—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.5 (#10), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Ring-2.6-1T
LMArena Text1503—
LMArena Creative Writing1505—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
EQ-Bench 41223—
LMArena Multi-Turn1513—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Ring-2.6-1T?

Claude Opus 4.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#20); Ring-2.6-1T does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Claude Opus 4.6 or Ring-2.6-1T better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.2 versus 40.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Ring-2.6-1T share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Ring-2.6-1T has 3.

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