Aion-2.0 vs Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

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 44. 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 66. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is OpenBookQA, 75 to 33.

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking is the reasoning model in the pair, while Aion-2.0 is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking 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 4.1 Opus Thinking only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 200K context window or you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.

Agentic

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

51.7

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

46.7

48
Terminal-Bench 2.0
45
60
BrowseComp
49
50
OSWorld-Verified
47

Coding

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

33.2

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

21.8

66
HumanEval
30
35
SWE-bench Verified
20
29
LiveCodeBench
15
37
SWE-bench Pro
29

Multimodal & Grounded

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

66

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

59.3

61
MMMU-Pro
62
72
OfficeQA Pro
56

Reasoning

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

70.3

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

49.4

76
SimpleQA
36
74
MuSR
34
76
BBH
67
64
LongBench v2
60
65
MRCRv2
60

Knowledge

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

54

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

34.3

78
MMLU
38
77
GPQA
37
75
SuperGPQA
35
75
OpenBookQA
33
67
MMLU-Pro
53
5
HLE
8
66
FrontierScience
41

Instruction Following

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

93

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

66

93
IFEval
66

Multilingual

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

78.1

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

58.7

80
MGSM
60
77
MMLU-ProX
58

Mathematics

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

72.1

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

48.3

74
AIME 2023
38
76
AIME 2024
40
75
AIME 2025
39
70
HMMT Feb 2023
34
72
HMMT Feb 2024
36
71
HMMT Feb 2025
35
73
BRUMO 2025
37
71
MATH-500
62

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Aion-2.0 or Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking?

Aion-2.0 is ahead overall, 58 to 44. The biggest single separator in this matchup is OpenBookQA, where the scores are 75 and 33.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Aion-2.0 or Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 54 versus 34.3. Inside this category, OpenBookQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Aion-2.0 or Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 33.2 versus 21.8. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Aion-2.0 or Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 72.1 versus 48.3. 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 4.1 Opus Thinking?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 70.3 versus 49.4. 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 4.1 Opus Thinking?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 51.7 versus 46.7. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Aion-2.0 or Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 66 versus 59.3. Inside this category, OfficeQA Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Aion-2.0 or Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 93 versus 66. 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 4.1 Opus Thinking?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.1 versus 58.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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