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Claude 4.1 Opus vs o1

Data verified

Head-to-head evidence from 1 shared benchmark result across 1 category. Overall scores shown here use the public BenchAlign v5 ranking lane.

45.88/100
Margin
2.2pts
winning →
OpenAI
48.1/100
0 category wins0 category wins

Public leaderboard positions: Claude 4.1 Opus #142 (Supported); o1 #129 (Estimated). Intervals and evidence labels describe ranking uncertainty, not a guarantee for a specific workload.

Evidence parity. Claude 4.1 Opus and o1 share 1 comparable benchmark result. 0 of 8 categories are comparable. 3 results are unique to Claude 4.1 Opus; 15 to o1.

Updated July 23, 2026
Shared results
1
Claude 4.1 Opus only
3
o1 only
15
Comparable categories
0 / 8

Benchmark data for Claude 4.1 Opus and o1 is coming soon on BenchLM.

Confidence note. This is a partial-evidence comparison with 1 shared benchmark result across 1 evidence category; 0 of 8 categories currently have scoreable aggregates for both models. Treat the verdict as directional until coverage is more balanced.

Why this result

BenchLM has partial data for these models, but not enough overlapping benchmark coverage to produce a fair score-level comparison yet.

Claude 4.1 Opus is priced at $15.00 input / $75.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $15.00 input / $60.00 output per 1M tokens for o1.

Category breakdown

Exact category averages are shown below. Not measured means BenchLM does not have enough sourced public coverage for that model and category.

Category scores and score margins for Claude 4.1 Opus and o1
CategoryClaude 4.1 OpusΔo1
CodingClaude 4.1 Opus74.5MarginNo overlapo1Not measured
KnowledgeClaude 4.1 OpusNot measuredMarginNo overlapo175.7
MathClaude 4.1 OpusNot measuredMarginNo overlapo19.3
Inst. FollowingClaude 4.1 OpusNot measuredMarginNo overlapo192.2

Operational comparison

Runtime and commercial metrics are compared only when both models have a complete sourced value.

MetricClaude 4.1 Opuso1Comparison
Input / output priceUSD per 1M tokensClaude 4.1 Opus$15 input / $75 outputo1$15 input / $60 outputo1 has the lower combined listed price.
Generation speedtokens per secondClaude 4.1 Opus29 tok/so198 tok/so1 has the higher measured throughput.
First-answer latencyseconds to first tokenClaude 4.1 Opus1.66 so132.29 sClaude 4.1 Opus reaches the first token sooner.
Context windowmaximum listed tokensClaude 4.1 Opus200Ko1200KListed context windows are equal.

Benchmark Deep Dive

Agentic
BenchmarkClaude 4.1 Opuso1Result
JobBenchSource 21.9%Not comparable
τ²-bench resultsSource 62.6%Not comparable
Coding
BenchmarkClaude 4.1 Opuso1Result
SWE-bench VerifiedSource 74.5%Not comparable
AA Coding IndexSource 39.7%Not comparable
AA-SciCodeSource 35.8%Not comparable
Reasoning
BenchmarkClaude 4.1 Opuso1Result
AA-LCRSource 59.3%Not comparable
CritPtSource 0.3%Not comparable
Knowledge
BenchmarkClaude 4.1 Opuso1Result
Artificial Analysis Intelligence IndexSource 28.2%23.4%Claude 4.1 Opus leads
MMLUSource 91.8%Not comparable
GPQASource 75.7%Not comparable
AA-GPQA DiamondSource 74.7%Not comparable
AA-HLESource 7.7%Not comparable
AA-Omniscience IndexSource -10.5%Not comparable
AA-Omniscience AccuracySource 34.7%Not comparable
AA-Omniscience Hallucination RateSource 69.3%Not comparable
Math
BenchmarkClaude 4.1 Opuso1Result
FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3)Source 9.310%Not comparable
Multimodal
BenchmarkClaude 4.1 Opuso1Result
Design Arena WebsiteSource 1207Not comparable
Inst. Following
BenchmarkClaude 4.1 Opuso1Result
IFEvalSource 92.2%Not comparable
AA-IFBenchSource 70.3%Not comparable
Frequently Asked Questions (3)

Can I compare Claude 4.1 Opus and o1 on BenchLM yet?

Not fully yet. BenchLM is tracking both models, but the sourced benchmark breakdown for this comparison is still coming soon.

Why does this comparison show “coming soon”?

BenchLM only shows category winners and benchmark-level calls when we have sourced results that can be compared fairly. For these models, the public benchmark coverage is not complete enough yet.

What data is available for Claude 4.1 Opus and o1 today?

Claude 4.1 Opus: $15.00 input / $75.00 output per 1M tokens o1: $15.00 input / $60.00 output per 1M tokens Both model pages still include creator, context window, reasoning mode, and other metadata while benchmark coverage fills in.

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Last updated: July 23, 2026

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