Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Opus 5 vs Granite 4.1 30B

Claude Opus 5 has enough public results to be ranked (#4); Granite 4.1 30B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 5 Anthropic

67.8

Rank #4 Confirmed

Granite 4.1 30B IBM

34.0

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 5 scores higher in 2 categories and Granite 4.1 30B in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 5 leads 77.2 to 22.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 56.4% for Claude Opus 5 and 25.8% for Granite 4.1 30B.
  • Granite 4.1 30B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 5Granite 4.1 30B
ProviderAnthropicIBM
Noometry Index67.834.0
Released2026-07-242026-04-29
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked572

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 67.5 (#5), Granite 4.1 30B: 35.2

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Granite 4.1 30B
SciCode56.4%25.8%
DeepSWE73.6%—
FrontierCode53.4%—
CursorBench46.6%—
LMArena WebDev1691—
FrontierSWE52%—
WeirdML91.8%—
LMArena Coding1534—
ALE-Bench2,165—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 55.6 (#1), Granite 4.1 30B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Granite 4.1 30B
APEX-Agents65.8%—
OSWorld 2.031.4%—
τ²-bench Banking48.7%—
PostTrainBench35%—
BALROG63.4%—
GBAEval79.6%—
GDP.pdf24%—
Vending-Bench 211,182—

Reasoning Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 77.2 (#4), Granite 4.1 30B: 22.4

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Granite 4.1 30B
CritPt29.1%0%
ARC-AGI-290.4%—
SimpleBench80.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.3%—
ARC-AGI-197.5%—
Chess Puzzles42%—
EBR-Bench45.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1526—
Mystery Game Puzzles59%—
DTBench97.9%—
LMCA64.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.12—
Epoch Capabilities Index162.78—

Math Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 86.2 (#8), Granite 4.1 30B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Granite 4.1 30B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)85.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 473.2%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.9%—
ProofBench99%—
LMArena Math1531—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 66.8 (#9), Granite 4.1 30B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Granite 4.1 30B
GPQA Diamond93.9%—
SimpleQA Verified59.9%—
LMArena Expert1557—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 50.8 (#8), Granite 4.1 30B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Granite 4.1 30B
LMArena Vision1319—
Blueprint-Bench 230.4%—
Furniture Assembly60.8%—
LMArena Document1516—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 58.8 (#4), Granite 4.1 30B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Granite 4.1 30B
LMArena Non-English1501—
LMArena Chinese1574—
LMArena French1519—
LMArena German1524—
LMArena Japanese1516—
LMArena Korean1521—
LMArena Russian1507—
LMArena Spanish1519—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 79.2 (#7), Granite 4.1 30B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Granite 4.1 30B
LMArena Instruction Following1517—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 46.5 (#21), Granite 4.1 30B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Granite 4.1 30B
LMArena Longer Query1515—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 79.2 (#1), Granite 4.1 30B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Granite 4.1 30B
LMArena Text1507—
LMArena Creative Writing1491—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2133—
EQ-Bench 41385—
LMArena Multi-Turn1499—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 5 better than Granite 4.1 30B?

Claude Opus 5 has enough public results to be ranked (#4); Granite 4.1 30B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Claude Opus 5 or Granite 4.1 30B better for coding?

Claude Opus 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 67.5 versus 35.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 5 and Granite 4.1 30B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 5 has 57 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.1 30B has 2.

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