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Claude Opus 4.6 vs Soofi S 30B-A3B

Data verified

Head-to-head evidence from 3 shared benchmark results across 1 category. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.

83/100
Margin
38.0pts
← winning
Soofi S 30B-A3B
Soofi Project
45/100
1 category wins0 category wins

Verified leaderboard positions: Claude Opus 4.6 #9; Soofi S 30B-A3B unranked

Evidence parity. Claude Opus 4.6 and Soofi S 30B-A3B share 3 comparable benchmark results. 1 of 8 categories are comparable. 45 results are unique to Claude Opus 4.6; 5 to Soofi S 30B-A3B.

Updated July 15, 2026
Shared results
3
Claude Opus 4.6 only
45
Soofi S 30B-A3B only
5
Comparable categories
1 / 8

Pick Claude Opus 4.6 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Soofi S 30B-A3B only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill.

Confidence note. This is a partial-evidence comparison with 3 shared benchmark results across 1 evidence category; 1 of 8 categories currently have scoreable aggregates for both models. Treat the verdict as directional until coverage is more balanced.

Why this result

Claude Opus 4.6 is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 83 to 45. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Claude Opus 4.6's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 69.2 against 49.9. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 91.3% to 43.4%.

Claude Opus 4.6 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $5.00 input / $25.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Soofi S 30B-A3B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone.

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 4.6 and Soofi S 30B-A3B
CategoryClaude Opus 4.6ΔSoofi S 30B-A3B
KnowledgeClaude Opus 4.669.2Margin← 19.3Soofi S 30B-A3B49.9
AgenticClaude Opus 4.673.0MarginNo overlapSoofi S 30B-A3BNot measured
CodingClaude Opus 4.664.1MarginNo overlapSoofi S 30B-A3BNot measured
MathClaude Opus 4.636.3MarginNo overlapSoofi S 30B-A3BNot measured
MultimodalClaude Opus 4.677.3MarginNo overlapSoofi S 30B-A3BNot measured

Decisive benchmark drivers

The largest measured benchmark gaps in this matchup, with exact reported values.

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A · Claude Opus 4.6B · Soofi S 30B-A3B

  1. GPQA

    Knowledge
    Source ↗
    A 91.3%B 43.4%
    Winner: Claude Opus 4.6Δ 47.9
    GPQA: Claude Opus 4.6 scored 91.3%; Soofi S 30B-A3B scored 43.4%. Claude Opus 4.6 wins this benchmark.

  2. MMLU-Pro

    Knowledge
    Source ↗
    A 82%B 51.4%
    Winner: Claude Opus 4.6Δ 30.6
    MMLU-Pro: Claude Opus 4.6 scored 82%; Soofi S 30B-A3B scored 51.4%. Claude Opus 4.6 wins this benchmark.

Operational comparison

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

MetricClaude Opus 4.6Soofi S 30B-A3BComparison
Input / output priceUSD per 1M tokensClaude Opus 4.6$5 input / $25 outputSoofi S 30B-A3B$0 input / $0 outputSoofi S 30B-A3B has the lower combined listed price.
Generation speedtokens per secondClaude Opus 4.640 tok/sSoofi S 30B-A3BNot availableA complete speed comparison is not available.
First-answer latencyseconds to first tokenClaude Opus 4.61.78 sSoofi S 30B-A3BNot availableA complete latency comparison is not available.
Context windowmaximum listed tokensClaude Opus 4.61MSoofi S 30B-A3B1MListed context windows are equal.

Benchmark Deep Dive

Agentic
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Soofi S 30B-A3BResult
Terminal-Bench 2.0Source 65.4%—Not comparable
BrowseCompSource 83.7%—Not comparable
OSWorld-VerifiedSource 72.7%—Not comparable
τ²-bench resultsSource 84.8%—Not comparable
Claw-EvalSource 70.4%—Not comparable
DeepSearchQASource 73.7%—Not comparable
CyberGymSource 66.6%—Not comparable
Gert LabsSource 61.85%—Not comparable
ResearchClawBenchSource 19.9%—Not comparable
JobBenchSource 36.7%—Not comparable
Coding
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Soofi S 30B-A3BResult
SWE-bench VerifiedSource 80.8%—Not comparable
SWE-bench Verified*Source 75.6%—Not comparable
LiveCodeBench ProSource 70.7%—Not comparable
SWE-bench ProSource 53.4%—Not comparable
SWE-RebenchSource 65.3%—Not comparable
React Native EvalsSource 84.1%—Not comparable
Vibe Code BenchSource 57.57%—Not comparable
Terminal-Bench HardSource 48.5%—Not comparable
AA-SciCodeSource 45.7%—Not comparable
FrontierCodeSource 26.9%—Not comparable
HumanEvalSource —73.8%Not comparable
Reasoning
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Soofi S 30B-A3BResult
AA-LCRSource 58.3%—Not comparable
CritPtSource 2.8%—Not comparable
BBHSource —78.8%Not comparable
DROPSource —66.5%Not comparable
KnowledgeClaude Opus 4.6 wins
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Soofi S 30B-A3BResult
GPQASource 91.3%43.4%Claude Opus 4.6 leads
GPQA-DSource 89.2%43.4%Claude Opus 4.6 leads
SuperGPQASource 95%—Not comparable
MMLU-ProSource 82%51.4%Claude Opus 4.6 leads
MMLU-Pro (Arcee)Source 89.1%—Not comparable
HLESource 53%—Not comparable
HLE w/o toolsSource 40%—Not comparable
HealthBench HardSource 14.8%—Not comparable
MedXpertQA (Text)Source 52.1%—Not comparable
Artificial Analysis Intelligence IndexSource 37.8%—Not comparable
AA-GPQA DiamondSource 84.0%—Not comparable
AA-HLESource 18.6%—Not comparable
AA-Omniscience IndexSource 3.5%—Not comparable
AA-Omniscience AccuracySource 45.2%—Not comparable
AA-Omniscience Hallucination RateSource 76.0%—Not comparable
AGIEvalSource —66.9%Not comparable
Math
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Soofi S 30B-A3BResult
AIME25 (Arcee)Source 99.8%—Not comparable
FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3)Source 40.700%—Not comparable
FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4)Source 22.900%—Not comparable
GSM8KSource —86.1%Not comparable
Multimodal
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Soofi S 30B-A3BResult
MMMU-ProSource 77.3%—Not comparable
ERQASource 51.6%—Not comparable
ScreenSpot ProSource 83.1%—Not comparable
MedXpertQA (MM)Source 64.8%—Not comparable
GDPval-AASource 1606—Not comparable
AA-MMMU-ProSource 72.5%—Not comparable
Design Arena WebsiteSource 1330—Not comparable
Inst. Following
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Soofi S 30B-A3BResult
AA-IFBenchSource 44.6%—Not comparable
Frequently Asked Questions (2)

Which is better, Claude Opus 4.6 or Soofi S 30B-A3B?

Claude Opus 4.6 is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 83 to 45. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 91.3% and 43.4%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Claude Opus 4.6 or Soofi S 30B-A3B?

Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 69.2 versus 49.9. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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