Compare / Claude Opus 4.6 vs Claude Opus 5

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Claude Opus 5

17 results from 6 sources that measured both models. Each row is in the source's own units; there is no overall winner.

Claude Opus 4.6
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Claude Opus 5
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BenchmarkMetricClaude Opus 4.6Claude Opus 5
APEX-AgentsreportedTasks passed% of tasks 46.3%65.8%
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedOverallArena rating 1,4951,490
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedOverallArena rating 1,4941,488
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedBusiness, management and financeArena rating 1,5011,486
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedCreative writingArena rating 1,5011,472
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedExpert promptsArena rating 1,5471,543
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedInstruction followingArena rating 1,5131,497
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedOverallArena rating 1,5051,491
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedWriting, literature and languageArena rating 1,5001,482
Artificial AnalysisreportedArtificial Analysis Intelligence Indexindex score 31.950.8
Artificial AnalysisreportedGPQA Diamond% of questions 89.6%93.7%
Artificial AnalysisreportedHumanity's Last Exam% of questions 39.9%54.9%
Artificial AnalysisreportedLong-context reasoning (AA-LCR)% of questions 78.0%82.0%
SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI)reportedCorrect answers% of questions 47.0%59.9%
tau2-benchreportedConsistency (pass^4)% of tasks 11.3%32.0%
tau2-benchreportedTask success (pass^1)% of tasks 27.3%48.7%
Vending-Bench 2reportedMoney after a yearUS dollars $8,017.59$11,181.87

Bold green marks the better value on that metric. Where a source reports ranges that overlap, the difference may not be meaningful; see the benchmark page for ranges.