Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Step 3.5 Flash has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 66 versus 64. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.
Step 3.5 Flash's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 84.5 against 77.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 64 to 82. Claude 4.1 Opus does hit back in multimodal & grounded, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Step 3.5 Flash gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 200K for Claude 4.1 Opus.
Pick Step 3.5 Flash if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 4.1 Opus only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority.
Step 3.5 Flash
60.2
Claude 4.1 Opus
58.7
Step 3.5 Flash
47.1
Claude 4.1 Opus
44
Step 3.5 Flash
66.7
Claude 4.1 Opus
80.7
Step 3.5 Flash
78.3
Claude 4.1 Opus
72.9
Step 3.5 Flash
60.8
Claude 4.1 Opus
57.6
Step 3.5 Flash
87
Claude 4.1 Opus
83
Step 3.5 Flash
82.8
Claude 4.1 Opus
81.8
Step 3.5 Flash
84.5
Claude 4.1 Opus
77.7
Step 3.5 Flash is ahead overall, 66 to 64. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 64 and 82.
Step 3.5 Flash has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.8 versus 57.6. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Step 3.5 Flash has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 47.1 versus 44. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Step 3.5 Flash has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 84.5 versus 77.7. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Step 3.5 Flash has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 78.3 versus 72.9. Inside this category, MuSR is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Step 3.5 Flash has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.2 versus 58.7. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude 4.1 Opus has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 80.7 versus 66.7. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Step 3.5 Flash has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 87 versus 83. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Step 3.5 Flash has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.8 versus 81.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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