Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.8 vs o1

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 40.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 31 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic

60.7

Rank #13 Confirmed

o1 OpenAI

40.9

Rank #143 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 31 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher in 9 categories and o1 in 1 category; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.8 leads 78.4 to 36.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3): 80% for Claude Opus 4.8 and 14.7% for o1.
  • Claude Opus 4.8 is cheaper at $5 / $25 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $60 for o1.
  • Claude Opus 4.8 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 200K.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.8 and o1 specifications
Claude Opus 4.8o1
ProviderAnthropicOpenAI
Noometry Index60.740.9
Released2026-05-282024-09-12
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M200K
Max output128K100K
Input $ / M tokens$5$15
Output $ / M tokens$25$60
Results tracked6552

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 59.9 (#12), o1: 46.1 (#70)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8o1
WeirdML82.9%47.6%
LMArena Coding14901367
DeepSWE59%—
FrontierCode46.5%—
Aider Polyglot—61.7%
LMArena WebDev1556—
SciCode53.5%—
GSO47.1%—
LiveBench Coding—69.7%
CadEval—56%
ALE-Bench1,564—
HumanEval+—89%
MBPP+—80.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 47.6 (#11), o1: 24.6 (#117)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8o1
APEX-Agents48.9%—
OSWorld 2.020.6%—
Remote Labor Index8.3%—
τ²-bench Banking39.7%—
Cybench—10%
DeepResearch Bench50.2%—
PostTrainBench33.8%—
GBAEval70.9%—
GDP.pdf24%—
LMArena Search1204—
METR Time Horizons—51.1%
Vending-Bench 25,787—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 64.7 (#16), o1: 27.9 (#111)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8o1
SimpleBench64.8%41.7%
ARC-AGI-192.5%30.7%
Chess Puzzles34%15%
EnigmaEval23.5%5.7%
LMArena Hard Prompts14821371
DTBench94.9%74.7%
LMCA57.5%22.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index158.21141.91
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)91.1%—
CritPt20.9%—
EBR-Bench28.6%—
LiveBench Reasoning—91.6%
Mystery Game Puzzles36%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—65.5%
Surface Evolver Bench87.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
ForecastBench59.9—
LiveBench—75.7%

Math Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 78.4 (#13), o1: 36.1 (#175)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#29), o1: 41.5 (#110)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8o1
GPQA Diamond91%76.8%
SimpleQA Verified53%41.1%
LMArena Expert15021361
Humanity's Last Exam—8%
Confabulations—11.7%

Multimodal Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 42.9 (#26), o1: 34.2 (#93)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8o1
LMArena Vision12941168
GeoBench—80%
VPCT—37%
Blueprint-Bench 214.5%—
Furniture Assembly42.5%—
LMArena Document1475—
SpatialViz-Bench—41.4%

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 55.2 (#33), o1: 48.6 (#142)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8o1
LMArena Non-English14501358
LMArena Chinese15071394
LMArena French14811344
LMArena German14721337
LMArena Japanese14401346
LMArena Korean14321396
LMArena Russian14741356
LMArena Spanish14661345

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 77.4 (#24), o1: 74.8 (#86)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8o1
LMArena Instruction Following14761367
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.5%

Long Context o1 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#35), o1: 50.3 (#9)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8o1
LMArena Longer Query14831378
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 72.0 (#16), o1: 55.6 (#144)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8o1
LMArena Text14611366
LMArena Creative Writing14541348
LMArena Multi-Turn14761369
Short-Story Creative Writing—70.2%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840—
EQ-Bench 41281—
LiveBench Language—65.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than o1?

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 40.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.8 or o1?

Claude Opus 4.8 is cheaper. It lists at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens; o1 lists at $15 and $60.

Is Claude Opus 4.8 or o1 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.9 versus 46.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 4.8 does, with 1M tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.8 and o1 share?

31 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.8 has 65 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.

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