Claude 4.1 Opus vs Composer 2

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

Composer 2 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 62 to 53. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Composer 2's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 61.7 against 43.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 43.3% to 61.7%.

Composer 2 is the reasoning model in the pair, while Claude 4.1 Opus 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.

Quick Verdict

Pick Composer 2 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 4.1 Opus only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

Composer 2

Claude 4.1 Opus

43.3

Composer 2

61.7

43.3%
Terminal-Bench 2.0
61.7%

Coding

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74.5%
SWE-bench Verified
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SWE Multilingual
73.7%
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React Native Evals
97.2%

Multimodal & Grounded

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Reasoning

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Knowledge

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74%
SimpleQA
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Instruction Following

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Multilingual

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Mathematics

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Claude 4.1 Opus or Composer 2?

Composer 2 is ahead overall, 62 to 53. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 43.3% and 61.7%.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Claude 4.1 Opus or Composer 2?

Composer 2 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.7 versus 43.3. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 18, 2026

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