1-bit Bonsai 4B vs Claude 4.1 Opus

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

1-bit Bonsai 4B· Claude 4.1 Opus

Quick Verdict

Pick Claude 4.1 Opus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. 1-bit Bonsai 4B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Claude 4.1 Opus is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 62 to 44. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Claude 4.1 Opus's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 71.3 against 41.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 28.7% to 76%.

Claude 4.1 Opus gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 32K for 1-bit Bonsai 4B.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Pricing unavailable
SpeedN/A29 t/s
TTFTN/A1.66s
Context32K200K

Decision framing

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Runtime metrics show N/A when BenchLM does not have a sourced snapshot for that exact model. The scoring rules and freshness policy are documented on the methodology page.

Benchmark1-bit Bonsai 4BClaude 4.1 Opus
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.043.3%
BrowseComp62%
OSWorld-Verified57%
Coding
HumanEval68%
SWE-bench Verified74.5%
LiveCodeBench40%
SWE-bench Pro47%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro82%
OfficeQA Pro79%
ReasoningClaude 4.1 Opus wins
MuSR41.4%72%
BBH81%
LongBench v271%
MRCRv271%
KnowledgeClaude 4.1 Opus wins
GPQA28.7%76%
MMLU76%
SuperGPQA74%
HLE11%
FrontierScience68%
SimpleQA74%
Instruction FollowingClaude 4.1 Opus wins
IFEval69.6%83%
Multilingual
MGSM85%
MMLU-ProX80%
MathematicsClaude 4.1 Opus wins
MATH-50065.8%81%
AIME 202376%
AIME 202478%
AIME 202577%
HMMT Feb 202372%
HMMT Feb 202474%
HMMT Feb 202573%
BRUMO 202575%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, 1-bit Bonsai 4B or Claude 4.1 Opus?

Claude 4.1 Opus is ahead overall, 62 to 44. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 28.7% and 76%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, 1-bit Bonsai 4B or Claude 4.1 Opus?

Claude 4.1 Opus has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 54.3 versus 28.7. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, 1-bit Bonsai 4B or Claude 4.1 Opus?

Claude 4.1 Opus has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 77.3 versus 65.8. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, 1-bit Bonsai 4B or Claude 4.1 Opus?

Claude 4.1 Opus has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 71.3 versus 41.4. Inside this category, MuSR is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, 1-bit Bonsai 4B or Claude 4.1 Opus?

Claude 4.1 Opus has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 83 versus 69.6. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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