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Claude Opus 4.5 Thinking vs Hy3 Preview

Data verified

Head-to-head evidence from 9 shared benchmark results across 3 categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.

21/100
Margin
33.0pts
winning →
54/100
0 category wins0 category wins

Evidence parity. Claude Opus 4.5 Thinking and Hy3 Preview share 9 comparable benchmark results. 0 of 8 categories are comparable. 8 results are unique to Claude Opus 4.5 Thinking; 13 to Hy3 Preview.

Updated July 14, 2026
Shared results
9
Claude Opus 4.5 Thinking only
8
Hy3 Preview only
13
Comparable categories
0 / 8

Benchmark data for Claude Opus 4.5 Thinking and Hy3 Preview is coming soon on BenchLM.

Confidence note. This is a partial-evidence comparison with 9 shared benchmark results across 3 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.

Hy3 Preview has the larger context window at 256K, compared with 200K for Claude Opus 4.5 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 Opus 4.5 Thinking and Hy3 Preview
CategoryClaude Opus 4.5 ThinkingΔHy3 Preview
AgenticClaude Opus 4.5 ThinkingNot measuredMarginNo overlapHy3 Preview54.4
CodingClaude Opus 4.5 ThinkingNot measuredMarginNo overlapHy3 Preview61.6
KnowledgeClaude Opus 4.5 ThinkingNot measuredMarginNo overlapHy3 Preview33.8
Inst. FollowingClaude Opus 4.5 ThinkingNot measuredMarginNo overlapHy3 Preview63.1

Operational comparison

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

MetricClaude Opus 4.5 ThinkingHy3 PreviewComparison
Input / output priceUSD per 1M tokensClaude Opus 4.5 ThinkingNot availableHy3 Preview$0 input / $0 outputA complete price comparison is not available.
Generation speedtokens per secondClaude Opus 4.5 ThinkingNot availableHy3 PreviewNot availableA complete speed comparison is not available.
First-answer latencyseconds to first tokenClaude Opus 4.5 ThinkingNot availableHy3 PreviewNot availableA complete latency comparison is not available.
Context windowmaximum listed tokensClaude Opus 4.5 Thinking200KHy3 Preview256KHy3 Preview lists the larger context window.

Benchmark Deep Dive

Agentic
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5 ThinkingHy3 PreviewResult
Tau2-TelecomSource 89.5%Not comparable
Terminal-Bench 2.0Source 54.4%Not comparable
Gert LabsSource 36.91%Not comparable
AA Agentic IndexSource 30.7%Not comparable
GDPval-AASource 35.7%Not comparable
GDPval-AASource 1214Not comparable
Coding
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5 ThinkingHy3 PreviewResult
Vibe Code BenchSource 20.63%Not comparable
Terminal-Bench HardSource 47.0%Not comparable
AA-SciCodeSource 49.5%47.6%Claude Opus 4.5 Thinking leads
SWE-bench VerifiedSource 74.4%Not comparable
Terminal-Bench 2.0Source 54.4%Not comparable
SciCodeSource 41.2%Not comparable
AA Coding IndexSource 58.8%Not comparable
Reasoning
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5 ThinkingHy3 PreviewResult
AA-LCRSource 74.0%66.7%Claude Opus 4.5 Thinking leads
CritPtSource 4.6%4.9%Hy3 Preview leads
Knowledge
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5 ThinkingHy3 PreviewResult
Artificial Analysis Intelligence IndexSource 40.8%41.2%Hy3 Preview leads
AA-GPQA DiamondSource 86.6%89.7%Hy3 Preview leads
AA-HLESource 28.4%31.6%Hy3 Preview leads
AA-Omniscience IndexSource 13.3%-18.5%Claude Opus 4.5 Thinking leads
AA-Omniscience AccuracySource 45.7%31.5%Claude Opus 4.5 Thinking leads
AA-Omniscience Hallucination RateSource 59.8%73.0%Claude Opus 4.5 Thinking leads
AA MMLU-ProSource 89.5%Not comparable
GPQASource 87.2%Not comparable
GPQA-DSource 87.2%Not comparable
HLESource 25.5%Not comparable
Multilingual
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5 ThinkingHy3 PreviewResult
AA Global-MMLU-LiteSource 91.3%Not comparable
Multimodal
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5 ThinkingHy3 PreviewResult
AA-MMMU-ProSource 74.0%Not comparable
Design Arena WebsiteSource 1281Not comparable
Inst. Following
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5 ThinkingHy3 PreviewResult
AA-IFBenchSource 58.0%Not comparable
IFBenchSource 63.1%Not comparable
Frequently Asked Questions (3)

Can I compare Claude Opus 4.5 Thinking and Hy3 Preview 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 Opus 4.5 Thinking and Hy3 Preview today?

Hy3 Preview: $0.00 input / $0.00 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 14, 2026

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