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Claude Opus 4.6 vs O1

The readout for Claude Opus 4.6 and O1, before the detailed comparison sheet.

Key Takeaways

Weighted outcome: Claude Opus 4.6. Benchmark capability categories carry 80%, while price, API performance, and availability carry 20%.

Decision read

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6 has the higher weighted result; Model A / B score 73.3 to 26.7.

Evidence depth

103 data points

Includes 20 benchmark rows, 0 audit samples, and 10 provider examples.

Selection signal

Start with Claude Opus 4.6

The charts below split 30 high-signal samples across speed, scores, and audit health.

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Comparison sheet

This report only uses LMSpeed data for Claude Opus 4.6 and O1: pricing, speed aggregates, third-party benchmark scores, and shared provider samples.

Model compare
Claude Opus 4.6
O1
Overall leaderLeadingContender
Weighted overall score73.3 pts26.7 pts
Benchmark category leads4 categories2 categories
Operational advantagesCheapest input price, Free providers, Provider coverageNo data
Context window1M tokens200K tokens
Max output128K tokens100K tokens
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The overall result weights benchmark capability categories at 80% and price, API speed/latency, and availability at 20%. Recent test volume does not affect the winner, and missing benchmark categories are excluded.

Model metadata

Model compare
Claude Opus 4.6
O1
DeveloperAnthropicOpenAI
ReleasedFeb 2026Dec 2024
ParametersNo dataNo data
TokenizerClaudeGPT
Knowledge cutoffNo data2023-10-31
OpenRouter IDanthropic/claude-opus-4.6openai/o1
ReferencesNo dataNo data

When to choose each model

This report only uses LMSpeed data for Claude Opus 4.6 and O1: pricing, speed aggregates, third-party benchmark scores, and shared provider samples.

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6 is stronger in benchmark categories (Agents, Coding, Reasoning, Math) and operational dimensions (Cheapest input price, Free providers, Provider coverage).

O1

O1 leads these benchmark categories: Knowledge, Instruction following.

Benchmark score comparison

Third-party benchmark profile synced into LMSpeed; only metrics available for both models are shown.

Category performance

Compare benchmark category scores on a 0-100 scale. Select a category to inspect the gap.

Model A coverage
8 / 8
Model B coverage
6 / 8
Shared
6 shared categories

Avg. score

Claude Opus 4.6

53.1

Avg. score

O1

52.3

Agents

Claude Opus 4.6 leads by 9.3

Claude Opus 4.654.9
O145.6

Coding

Claude Opus 4.6 leads by 8.3

Claude Opus 4.658.9
O150.6

Reasoning

Claude Opus 4.6 leads by 2.7

Claude Opus 4.653.4
O150.7

Knowledge

O1 leads by 8.8

Claude Opus 4.653.7
O162.5

Math

Claude Opus 4.6 leads by 3.9

Claude Opus 4.656.5
O152.6

Multilingual

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.654
O1-

Multimodal

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.648.4
O1-

Instruction following

O1 leads by 6.8

Claude Opus 4.644.7
O151.5

Professional benchmark details

Metric-level scores with benchmark source, rank depth, confidence, error, and evaluation date where available.

Pricingverified

Input price

Claude Opus 4.6

winner

$5.00/M

Rank #164/180 · confidence 4

+$10.00/M

O1

$15.00/M

Rank #173/180 · confidence 4

Pricingverified

Blended price

Claude Opus 4.6

winner

$10.00/M

Rank #165/180 · confidence 4

+$16.25/M

O1

$26.25/M

Rank #173/180 · confidence 4

Pricingverified

Output price

Claude Opus 4.6

winner

$25.00/M

Rank #165/180 · confidence 4

+$35.00/M

O1

$60.00/M

Rank #173/180 · confidence 4

Reasoningreported

MMLU-Pro

Claude Opus 4.6

82.0%

Rank #50/129 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-02-01

+2.1%

O1

winner

84.1%

Rank #34/129 · confidence 4

Reasoningreported

CritPt

Claude Opus 4.6

winner

2.8

Rank #52/83 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-02-01

+2.5

O1

0.3

Rank #78/83 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-12-01

Claude Opus 4.6

winner

84.0%

Rank #70/212 · confidence 4

+9.3%

O1

74.7%

Rank #120/212 · confidence 4

Reasoningreported

AA-LCR

Claude Opus 4.6

62.3

Rank #73/100 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-02-01

+1.0

O1

winner

63.3

Rank #72/100 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-12-01

Claude Opus 4.6

winner

19.1%

Rank #83/209 · confidence 4

+12.1%

O1

7.0%

Rank #135/209 · confidence 4

Claude Opus 4.6

winner

45.7%

Rank #45/205 · confidence 4

+9.9%

O1

35.8%

Rank #124/205 · confidence 4

Codingreported

AA-SciCode

Claude Opus 4.6

winner

45.7

Rank #47/108 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-02-01

+9.9

O1

35.8

Rank #86/108 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-12-01

Mathreported

FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3)

Claude Opus 4.6

winner

40.7

Rank #10/47 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-02-01

+31.4

O1

9.3

Rank #34/47 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-12-01

Mathreported

BenchLM Math score

Claude Opus 4.6

winner

59.6

Rank #28/62 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-02-01

+27.0

O1

32.6

Rank #48/62 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-12-01

Knowledgereported

BenchLM Knowledge score

Claude Opus 4.6

winner

82.4

Rank #12/69 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-02-01

+18.4

O1

64.0

Rank #43/69 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-12-01

Knowledgereported

AA-Omniscience Accuracy

Claude Opus 4.6

winner

45.8

Rank #20/101 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-02-01

+11.3

O1

34.5

Rank #43/101 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-12-01

Knowledgereported

AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate

Claude Opus 4.6

winner

80.1

Rank #43/101 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-02-01

+10.5

O1

69.6

Rank #54/101 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-12-01

Knowledgereported

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Claude Opus 4.6

winner

38.8

Rank #48/111 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-02-01

+21.6

O1

17.2

Rank #90/111 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-09-12

Knowledgereported

AA-GPQA Diamond

Claude Opus 4.6

winner

84.0

Rank #62/108 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-02-01

+9.3

O1

74.7

Rank #84/108 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-12-01

Knowledgereported

AA-HLE

Claude Opus 4.6

winner

19.1

Rank #68/108 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-02-01

+12.1

O1

7.0

Rank #85/108 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-12-01

Instruction followingreported

AA-IFBench

Claude Opus 4.6

44.6

Rank #59/84 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-02-01

+25.7

O1

winner

70.3

Rank #35/84 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-12-01

Agentsreported

τ²-bench results

Claude Opus 4.6

winner

84.8

Rank #46/82 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-02-01

+22.2

O1

62.6

Rank #61/82 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-12-01

API audit comparison

Latest completed audits from shared providers, with four safety and integrity score groups plus report links.

Provider
Claude Opus 4.6
O1
No completed audits are available from shared providers yet.

Provider examples

Speed aggregates and input/output pricing share each provider row for real API selection and migration cost checks.

Provider
Claude Opus 4.6
O1
Cuz AI5 tests

Claude Opus 4.6

speed / latency

43 tok/s / 2285ms

input / output

No data

O1

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

EasyMore5 tests

Claude Opus 4.6

speed / latency

27 tok/s / 15402ms

input / output

No data

O1

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

N1N5 tests

Claude Opus 4.6

speed / latency

46 tok/s / 2559ms

input / output

No data

O1

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

Claude Opus 4.6

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

O1

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

AAAI0 tests

Claude Opus 4.6

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

O1

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

Claude Opus 4.6

claude-opus-4-6

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0/request

O1

o1-2024-12-17

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0/request

Claude Opus 4.6

claude-opus-4-6-c

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.0082/request

O1

o1-all

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.082/request

Claude Opus 4.6

claude-opus-4-6

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.017/request

O1

o1

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$1.03/M/$4.11/M

Claude Opus 4.6

claude-opus-4-6-thinking

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.548/M/$2.74/M

O1

o1-preview-all

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.033/request

Claude Opus 4.6

claude-opus-4-6-thinking

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.548/M/$2.74/M

O1

o1-preview-all

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.033/request

FAQ

Weighted outcome: Claude Opus 4.6. Benchmark capability categories carry 80%, while price, API performance, and availability carry 20%.

Why is this comparison indexable?
It has 4 verifiable comparison points, and both models have pricing or benchmark data.
Are missing metrics invented?
No. Metrics without LMSpeed data are omitted from this report.

Rankings are based on community-submitted tests and periodic health probes. Advisory only, not official data.