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Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking vs Claude Opus 4.8

Data verified

Head-to-head evidence from 9 shared benchmark results across 5 categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.

40/100
Margin
45.0pts
winning →
85/100
0 category wins0 category wins

Verified leaderboard positions: Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking unranked; Claude Opus 4.8 #3

Evidence parity. Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking and Claude Opus 4.8 share 9 comparable benchmark results. 0 of 8 categories are comparable. 1 result is unique to Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking; 44 to Claude Opus 4.8.

Updated July 12, 2026
Shared results
9
Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking only
1
Claude Opus 4.8 only
44
Comparable categories
0 / 8

Benchmark data for Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking and Claude Opus 4.8 is coming soon on BenchLM.

Confidence note. This is a partial-evidence comparison with 9 shared benchmark results across 5 evidence categories; 0 of 8 categories currently have scoreable aggregates for both models. Treat the verdict as directional until coverage is more balanced.

Why this result

BenchLM has partial data for these models, but not enough overlapping benchmark coverage to produce a fair score-level comparison yet.

Claude Opus 4.8 has the larger context window at 1M, compared with 200K for Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking.

Category breakdown

Exact category averages are shown below. Not measured means BenchLM does not have enough sourced public coverage for that model and category.

Category scores and score margins for Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking and Claude Opus 4.8
CategoryClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingΔClaude Opus 4.8
AgenticClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingNot measuredMarginNo overlapClaude Opus 4.880.3
CodingClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingNot measuredMarginNo overlapClaude Opus 4.876.4
KnowledgeClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingNot measuredMarginNo overlapClaude Opus 4.862.7
MathClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingNot measuredMarginNo overlapClaude Opus 4.853.9
MultimodalClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingNot measuredMarginNo overlapClaude Opus 4.877.0

Operational comparison

Runtime and commercial metrics are compared only when both models have a complete sourced value.

MetricClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingClaude Opus 4.8Comparison
Input / output priceUSD per 1M tokensClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingNot availableClaude Opus 4.8$5 input / $25 outputA complete price comparison is not available.
Generation speedtokens per secondClaude 4.1 Opus Thinking29 tok/sClaude Opus 4.8Not availableA complete speed comparison is not available.
First-answer latencyseconds to first tokenClaude 4.1 Opus Thinking15.00 sClaude Opus 4.8Not availableA complete latency comparison is not available.
Context windowmaximum listed tokensClaude 4.1 Opus Thinking200KClaude Opus 4.81MClaude Opus 4.8 lists the larger context window.

Benchmark Deep Dive

Agentic
BenchmarkClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingClaude Opus 4.8Result
Tau2-TelecomSource 71.4%94.4%Claude Opus 4.8 leads
Terminal-Bench 2.0Source 74.6%Not comparable
BrowseCompSource 84.3%Not comparable
DeepSearchQASource 93.1%Not comparable
OSWorld-VerifiedSource 83.4%Not comparable
Finance Agent v2Source 53.9%Not comparable
GDPval-AASource 1600Not comparable
MCP AtlasSource 82.2%Not comparable
ToolathlonSource 59.9%Not comparable
Gert LabsSource 72.97%Not comparable
AA Agentic IndexSource 47.2%Not comparable
GDPval-AASource 55.0%Not comparable
ResearchClawBenchSource 21.1%Not comparable
OSWorld 2.0Source 20.6%Not comparable
AA BriefcaseSource 1354Not comparable
AA AutomationBenchSource 48.5%Not comparable
AA EnterpriseOps-GymSource 44.0%Not comparable
AA Harvey LABSource 7.5%Not comparable
AA Tau3 BankingSource 27.6%Not comparable
Coding
BenchmarkClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingClaude Opus 4.8Result
Terminal-Bench HardSource 34.3%58.3%Claude Opus 4.8 leads
AA-SciCodeSource 40.9%53.5%Claude Opus 4.8 leads
SWE-bench VerifiedSource 88.6%Not comparable
SWE-bench ProSource 69.2%Not comparable
SWE MultilingualSource 84.4%Not comparable
SWE MultimodalSource 38.4%Not comparable
Terminal-Bench 2.0Source 74.6%Not comparable
cursorBench31Source 58.4%Not comparable
cursorBench32Source 62.3%Not comparable
AA Coding IndexSource 74.3%Not comparable
FrontierCodeSource 46.5%Not comparable
AA Terminal-Bench 2.1Source 84.6%Not comparable
Reasoning
BenchmarkClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingClaude Opus 4.8Result
AA-LCRSource 66.3%67.7%Claude Opus 4.8 leads
CritPtSource 0.0%20.9%Claude Opus 4.8 leads
Knowledge
BenchmarkClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingClaude Opus 4.8Result
Artificial Analysis Intelligence IndexSource 33.7%55.7%Claude Opus 4.8 leads
AA-GPQA DiamondSource 80.9%92.0%Claude Opus 4.8 leads
AA-HLESource 11.9%45.7%Claude Opus 4.8 leads
GPQASource 93.6%Not comparable
GPQA-DSource 93.6%Not comparable
HLESource 57.9%Not comparable
HLE w/o toolsSource 49.8%Not comparable
AA-Omniscience IndexSource 27.4%Not comparable
AA-Omniscience AccuracySource 46.6%Not comparable
AA-Omniscience Hallucination RateSource 35.9%Not comparable
Math
BenchmarkClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingClaude Opus 4.8Result
USAMO 2026Source 96.7%Not comparable
FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3)Source 47.241%Not comparable
FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4)Source 31.250%Not comparable
Multilingual
BenchmarkClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingClaude Opus 4.8Result
INCLUDESource 87.6%Not comparable
Multimodal
BenchmarkClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingClaude Opus 4.8Result
AA-MMMU-ProSource 67.9%Not comparable
OfficeQA ProSource 66.2%Not comparable
ScreenSpot ProSource 87.9%Not comparable
CharXivSource 89.9%Not comparable
CharXiv w/o toolsSource 80.5%Not comparable
Design Arena WebsiteSource 1281Not comparable
Inst. Following
BenchmarkClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingClaude Opus 4.8Result
AA-IFBenchSource 55.4%62.2%Claude Opus 4.8 leads
Frequently Asked Questions (3)

Can I compare Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking and Claude Opus 4.8 on BenchLM yet?

Not fully yet. BenchLM is tracking both models, but the sourced benchmark breakdown for this comparison is still coming soon.

Why does this comparison show “coming soon”?

BenchLM only shows category winners and benchmark-level calls when we have sourced results that can be compared fairly. For these models, the public benchmark coverage is not complete enough yet.

What data is available for Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking and Claude Opus 4.8 today?

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking: Pricing unavailable Claude Opus 4.8: $5.00 input / $25.00 output per 1M tokens Both model pages still include creator, context window, reasoning mode, and other metadata while benchmark coverage fills in.

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Last updated: July 12, 2026

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