# Claude 4 Opus vs Claude 4 Opus Thinking

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude 4 Opus and Claude 4 Opus Thinking across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-4-opus-vs-claude-4-opus-thinking
- Last updated: October 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Claude 4 Opus Thinking if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 4 Opus only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Claude 4 Opus Thinking leads overall 68 to 64.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is AIME 2025 in Mathematics, with scores of 33.9% and 75.5%.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude 4 Opus | Claude 4 Opus Thinking |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 200K |
| Overall Score | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 5 | 4 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 4 Opus public-lane score: Coming soon
- Claude 4 Opus Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude 4 Opus | Claude 4 Opus Thinking | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 72.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 4 Opus public-lane score: Coming soon
- Claude 4 Opus Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude 4 Opus | Claude 4 Opus Thinking | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | 73.7% | 76.5% | Claude 4 Opus Thinking |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 4 Opus public-lane score: Coming soon
- Claude 4 Opus Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude 4 Opus | Claude 4 Opus Thinking | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 74.9% | 79.6% | Claude 4 Opus Thinking |
| MMMLU | 87.4% | 88.8% | Claude 4 Opus Thinking |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 4 Opus public-lane score: Coming soon
- Claude 4 Opus Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude 4 Opus | Claude 4 Opus Thinking | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | 33.9% | 75.5% | Claude 4 Opus Thinking |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude 4 Opus or Claude 4 Opus Thinking?

Claude 4 Opus Thinking is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### How many benchmarks does Claude 4 Opus cover on BenchLM?

Claude 4 Opus currently has 5 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Claude 4 Opus Thinking cover on BenchLM?

Claude 4 Opus Thinking currently has 4 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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- [Claude 4 Opus Thinking vs Claude Opus 5.5](/compare/claude-4-opus-thinking-vs-claude-opus-5-5)
- [Claude 4 Opus vs GPT-6.1 Sol](/compare/claude-4-opus-vs-gpt-6-1-sol)
- [Claude 4 Opus Thinking vs GPT-6.1 Sol](/compare/claude-4-opus-thinking-vs-gpt-6-1-sol)

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