Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.8 vs Laguna M.1

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 32.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic

60.7

Rank #13 Confirmed

Laguna M.1 Poolside

32.5

Rank #256 Reported

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher in 3 categories and Laguna M.1 in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.8 leads 78.4 to 21.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Surface Evolver Bench: 87.5% for Claude Opus 4.8 and 15.6% for Laguna M.1.
  • Claude Opus 4.8 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.
  • Laguna M.1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.8 and Laguna M.1 specifications
Claude Opus 4.8Laguna M.1
ProviderAnthropicPoolside
Noometry Index60.732.5
Released2026-05-282026-04-28
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M262K
Max output128K33K
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked653

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 59.9 (#12), Laguna M.1: 36.6 (#204)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Laguna M.1
LMArena WebDev15561349
DeepSWE59%—
FrontierCode46.5%—
SciCode53.5%—
GSO47.1%—
WeirdML82.9%—
LMArena Coding1490—
ALE-Bench1,564—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 47.6 (#11), Laguna M.1: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Laguna M.1
APEX-Agents48.9%—
OSWorld 2.020.6%—
Remote Labor Index8.3%—
τ²-bench Banking39.7%—
DeepResearch Bench50.2%—
PostTrainBench33.8%—
GBAEval70.9%—
GDP.pdf24%—
LMArena Search1204—
Vending-Bench 25,787—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 64.7 (#16), Laguna M.1: 23.1 (#184)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Laguna M.1
Surface Evolver Bench87.5%15.6%
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench64.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)91.1%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
CritPt20.9%—
Chess Puzzles34%—
EnigmaEval23.5%—
EBR-Bench28.6%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1482—
Mystery Game Puzzles36%—
DTBench94.9%—
LMCA57.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
Epoch Capabilities Index158.21—
ForecastBench59.9—

Math Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 78.4 (#13), Laguna M.1: 21.1 (#283)

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#29), Laguna M.1: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Laguna M.1
GPQA Diamond91%—
SimpleQA Verified53%—
LMArena Expert1502—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 42.9 (#26), Laguna M.1: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Laguna M.1
LMArena Vision1294—
Blueprint-Bench 214.5%—
Furniture Assembly42.5%—
LMArena Document1475—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 55.2 (#33), Laguna M.1: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Laguna M.1
LMArena Non-English1450—
LMArena Chinese1507—
LMArena French1481—
LMArena German1472—
LMArena Japanese1440—
LMArena Korean1432—
LMArena Russian1474—
LMArena Spanish1466—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 77.4 (#24), Laguna M.1: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Laguna M.1
LMArena Instruction Following1476—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#35), Laguna M.1: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Laguna M.1
LMArena Longer Query1483—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 72.0 (#16), Laguna M.1: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Laguna M.1
LMArena Text1461—
LMArena Creative Writing1454—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840—
EQ-Bench 41281—
LMArena Multi-Turn1476—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than Laguna M.1?

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 32.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.8 or Laguna M.1 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.9 versus 36.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 4.8 does, with 1M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.8 and Laguna M.1 share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.8 has 65 scored results on Noometry and Laguna M.1 has 3.

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