Claude 4 Opus (Reasoning) vs Claude 4.1 Opus (Reasoning)

Comparing 2 AI models · 6 benchmarks · Anthropic

Most Affordable
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Claude 4 Opus (Reasoning)
$15.00/1M
Highest Intelligence
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Claude 4.1 Opus (Reasoning)
80.9% GPQA
Best for Coding
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Claude 4.1 Opus (Reasoning)
35.1 Coding Index
Price Difference
1.0x
input cost range

Composite Indices

Intelligence, Coding, Math

Standard Benchmarks

Academic and industry benchmarks

Benchmark Winners

6 tests
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Claude 4 Opus (Reasoning)

1
  • MATH 500
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Claude 4.1 Opus (Reasoning)

5
  • GPQA
  • MMLU Pro
  • HLE
  • LiveCodeBench
  • AIME 2025
Metric
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Pricing
Per 1M tokens
Input Cost $15.00/1M $15.00/1M
Output Cost $75.00/1M $75.00/1M
Blended Cost 3:1 input/output ratio
$30.00/1M $30.00/1M
Specifications
Organization Model creator
Anthropic Anthropic
Release Date Launch date
May 22, 2025 Aug 5, 2025
Performance & Speed
Throughput Output speed
43.5 tok/s 49.4 tok/s
Time to First Token (TTFT) Initial response delay
1164ms 1207ms
Latency Time to first answer token
47149ms 41696ms
Composite Indices
Intelligence Index Overall reasoning capability
27.4 31.9
Coding Index Programming ability
32.7 35.1
Math Index Mathematical reasoning
73.3 80.3
Standard Benchmarks
GPQA Graduate-level reasoning
79.6% 80.9%
MMLU Pro Advanced knowledge
87.3% 88.0%
HLE Hard language evaluation
11.7% 11.9%
LiveCodeBench Real-world coding tasks
63.6% 65.4%
MATH 500 Mathematical problems
98.2%
AIME 2025 Advanced math competition
73.3% 80.3%
AIME (Original) Math olympiad problems
75.7%
SciCode Scientific code generation
39.8% 40.9%
LCR Code review capability
33.7% 66.3%
IFBench Instruction-following
53.7% 55.4%
TAU-bench v2 Tool use & agentic tasks
70.5% 71.4%
TerminalBench Hard CLI command generation
29.1% 32.1%

Key Takeaways

Claude 4 Opus (Reasoning) offers the best value at $15.00/1M, making it ideal for high-volume applications and cost-conscious projects.

Claude 4.1 Opus (Reasoning) leads in reasoning capabilities with a 80.9% GPQA score, excelling at complex analytical tasks and problem-solving.

Claude 4.1 Opus (Reasoning) achieves a 35.1 coding index, making it the top choice for software development and code generation tasks.

All models support context windows of ∞+ tokens, suitable for processing lengthy documents and maintaining extended conversations.

When to Choose Each Model

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Claude 4 Opus (Reasoning)

  • Cost-sensitive applications
  • High-volume processing
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Claude 4.1 Opus (Reasoning)

  • Complex reasoning tasks
  • Research & analysis
  • Code generation
  • Software development

Cost Calculator

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Costs are estimates based on API pricing. Actual costs may vary based on caching, batch processing, and volume discounts.