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claude-opus-4-1-20250805 vs claude-opus-4-20250514 ·Anthropic vs Anthropic

claude-opus-4-1-20250805 vs claude-opus-4-20250514 — head-to-head comparison

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claude-opus-4-1-20250805 — Anthropic
Quality
#42 of 61
49based on 5 of 6 evaluations
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claude-opus-4-20250514 — Anthropic
Quality
#31 of 61
62based on 3 of 6 evaluations
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Summary

On the Known Good Index, claude-opus-4-1-20250805 scores 49 and claude-opus-4-20250514 scores 62 — a 13-point lead for claude-opus-4-20250514. They share 3 published evaluations, with claude-opus-4-1-20250805 ahead on 2 and claude-opus-4-20250514 ahead on 1.

claude-opus-4-1-20250805 is proprietary; claude-opus-4-20250514 is proprietary.

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At a glance
Metricclaude-opus-4-1-20250805claude-opus-4-20250514
Known Good Index 49 based on 5 of 6 evaluations 62 based on 3 of 6 evaluations
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Providers 0 0
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

IndicesComponents
Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

Metricclaude-opus-4-1-20250805claude-opus-4-20250514
Known Good Index 49 62
Coding Index 60
Mathematics Index 40 64
Science Index 74 69
Reasoning Index 43
Agentic Index 60 76
Openness Index 5 5
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = claude-opus-4-1-20250805 · marker = claude-opus-4-20250514 · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond73 / 69
MATH / AIME40 / 42
SWE-bench Verified73 / 71

Right-hand figures read claude-opus-4-1-20250805 / claude-opus-4-20250514. claude-opus-4-1-20250805 leads on 2 of 3, claude-opus-4-20250514 on 1.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

Metricclaude-opus-4-1-20250805claude-opus-4-20250514
Text Arena 1,417 1,364
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,447 1,412
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Per token typeCache discount
Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

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Speed & Latency

Median throughput and time to first token across hosting providers

Output speedTime to first token
Throughput and latency

Medians across all tracked providers, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

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