Model comparison

Claude Opus 5 vs o1

Claude Opus 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 67.8 to 40.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 29 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 5 Anthropic

67.8

Rank #4 Confirmed

o1 OpenAI

40.9

Rank #143 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 29 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 5 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 5 leads 86.2 to 36.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3): 85.6% for Claude Opus 5 and 14.7% for o1.
  • Claude Opus 5 is cheaper at $5 / $25 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $60 for o1.
  • Claude Opus 5 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 200K.

Side by side

Claude Opus 5 and o1 specifications
Claude Opus 5o1
ProviderAnthropicOpenAI
Noometry Index67.840.9
Released2026-07-242024-09-12
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M200K
Max output128K100K
Input $ / M tokens$5$15
Output $ / M tokens$25$60
Results tracked5752

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 67.5 (#5), o1: 46.1 (#70)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5o1
WeirdML91.8%47.6%
LMArena Coding15341367
DeepSWE73.6%—
FrontierCode53.4%—
Aider Polyglot—61.7%
CursorBench46.6%—
LMArena WebDev1691—
FrontierSWE52%—
SciCode56.4%—
LiveBench Coding—69.7%
CadEval—56%
ALE-Bench2,165—
HumanEval+—89%
MBPP+—80.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 55.6 (#1), o1: 24.6 (#117)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5o1
APEX-Agents65.8%—
OSWorld 2.031.4%—
τ²-bench Banking48.7%—
Cybench—10%
PostTrainBench35%—
BALROG63.4%—
GBAEval79.6%—
GDP.pdf24%—
METR Time Horizons—51.1%
Vending-Bench 211,182—

Reasoning Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 77.2 (#4), o1: 27.9 (#111)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5o1
SimpleBench80.6%41.7%
ARC-AGI-197.5%30.7%
Chess Puzzles42%15%
LMArena Hard Prompts15261371
DTBench97.9%74.7%
LMCA64.5%22.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index162.78141.91
ARC-AGI-290.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.3%—
CritPt29.1%—
EnigmaEval—5.7%
EBR-Bench45.7%—
LiveBench Reasoning—91.6%
Mystery Game Puzzles59%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—65.5%
Bench to the Future 30.12—
LiveBench—75.7%

Math Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 86.2 (#8), o1: 36.1 (#175)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5o1
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)85.6%14.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.9%73.3%
LMArena Math15311388
FrontierMath Tier 473.2%—
ProofBench99%—
LiveBench Math—80.3%
MATH Level 5—94.7%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—9.3%

Knowledge Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 66.8 (#9), o1: 41.5 (#110)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5o1
GPQA Diamond93.9%76.8%
SimpleQA Verified59.9%41.1%
LMArena Expert15571361
Humanity's Last Exam—8%
Confabulations—11.7%

Multimodal Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 50.8 (#8), o1: 34.2 (#93)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5o1
LMArena Vision13191168
GeoBench—80%
VPCT—37%
Blueprint-Bench 230.4%—
Furniture Assembly60.8%—
LMArena Document1516—
SpatialViz-Bench—41.4%

Multilingual Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 58.8 (#4), o1: 48.6 (#142)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5o1
LMArena Non-English15011358
LMArena Chinese15741394
LMArena French15191344
LMArena German15241337
LMArena Japanese15161346
LMArena Korean15211396
LMArena Russian15071356
LMArena Spanish15191345

Instruction Following Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 79.2 (#7), o1: 74.8 (#86)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5o1
LMArena Instruction Following15171367
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.5%

Long Context o1 leads

Claude Opus 5: 46.5 (#21), o1: 50.3 (#9)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5o1
LMArena Longer Query15151378
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 79.2 (#1), o1: 55.6 (#144)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5o1
LMArena Text15071366
LMArena Creative Writing14911348
LMArena Multi-Turn14991369
Short-Story Creative Writing—70.2%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2133—
EQ-Bench 41385—
LiveBench Language—65.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 5 better than o1?

Claude Opus 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 67.8 to 40.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 5 or o1?

Claude Opus 5 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 5 or o1 better for coding?

Claude Opus 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 67.5 versus 46.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 5 does, with 1M tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 5 and o1 share?

29 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 5 has 57 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.

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