Aion-2.0 vs Claude 3 Opus

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

Aion-2.0 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 58 to 51. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Aion-2.0's sharpest advantage is in instruction following, where it averages 93 against 77. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 35 to 10. Claude 3 Opus does hit back in multimodal & grounded, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Claude 3 Opus gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Aion-2.0.

Quick Verdict

Pick Aion-2.0 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 3 Opus only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you need the larger 200K context window.

Agentic

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

51.7

Claude 3 Opus

48.1

48
Terminal-Bench 2.0
44
60
BrowseComp
56
50
OSWorld-Verified
47

Coding

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

33.2

Claude 3 Opus

19

66
HumanEval
53
35
SWE-bench Verified
10
29
LiveCodeBench
20
37
SWE-bench Pro
20

Multimodal & Grounded

Claude 3 Opus

Aion-2.0

66

Claude 3 Opus

70.3

61
MMMU-Pro
73
72
OfficeQA Pro
67

Reasoning

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

70.3

Claude 3 Opus

61.6

76
SimpleQA
59
74
MuSR
57
76
BBH
74
64
LongBench v2
62
65
MRCRv2
63

Knowledge

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

54

Claude 3 Opus

45

78
MMLU
61
77
GPQA
61
75
SuperGPQA
59
75
OpenBookQA
57
67
MMLU-Pro
62
5
HLE
1
66
FrontierScience
56

Instruction Following

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

93

Claude 3 Opus

77

93
IFEval
77

Multilingual

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

78.1

Claude 3 Opus

69.8

80
MGSM
73
77
MMLU-ProX
68

Mathematics

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

72.1

Claude 3 Opus

65.9

74
AIME 2023
61
76
AIME 2024
63
75
AIME 2025
62
70
HMMT Feb 2023
57
72
HMMT Feb 2024
59
71
HMMT Feb 2025
58
73
BRUMO 2025
60
71
MATH-500
73

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Aion-2.0 or Claude 3 Opus?

Aion-2.0 is ahead overall, 58 to 51. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 35 and 10.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Aion-2.0 or Claude 3 Opus?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 54 versus 45. Inside this category, OpenBookQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Aion-2.0 or Claude 3 Opus?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 33.2 versus 19. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Aion-2.0 or Claude 3 Opus?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 72.1 versus 65.9. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Aion-2.0 or Claude 3 Opus?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 70.3 versus 61.6. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Aion-2.0 or Claude 3 Opus?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 51.7 versus 48.1. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Aion-2.0 or Claude 3 Opus?

Claude 3 Opus has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.3 versus 66. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Aion-2.0 or Claude 3 Opus?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 93 versus 77. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Aion-2.0 or Claude 3 Opus?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.1 versus 69.8. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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