Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 33.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 8 categories and Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 63.0 to 14.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 94.4% for Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.4% for Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B.
  • Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
ProviderAnthropicAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index58.233.0
Released2026-02-042024-11-21
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6814

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.2 (#20), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 36.0 (#214)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Coding15361235
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), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
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), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 23.9 (#169)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Hard Prompts15271220
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), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 14.2 (#303)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.4%4.4%
LMArena Math15191242
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)66%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions78.5%—
ProofBench50%—
MATH Level 5—42.7%
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), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 25.0 (#264)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
GPQA Diamond90.5%46.3%
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—
LMArena Expert1546—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.3 (#74), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.9 (#6), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 39.9 (#222)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Non-English14891236
LMArena Chinese15511249
LMArena Russian14971246
LMArena French1513—
LMArena German1502—
LMArena Japanese1484—
LMArena Korean1464—
LMArena Spanish1510—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.5 (#4), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 64.8 (#227)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Instruction Following15231233

Long Context Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 37.1 (#222)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Longer Query15201224
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.5 (#10), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 45.6 (#223)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Text15031256
LMArena Creative Writing15051231
LMArena Multi-Turn15131252
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
EQ-Bench 41223—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 33.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.6 or Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.2 versus 36.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B has 14.

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