# Claude Opus 4.5 vs Laguna M.1

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Opus 4.5 and Laguna M.1 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-opus-4-5-vs-laguna-m-1
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Opus 4.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Laguna M.1 only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Claude Opus 4.5 leads overall 58.41 to 3.93.
- The clearest category separation is in knowledge, where the averages are 53.9 for Claude Opus 4.5 and 18.6 for Laguna M.1.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is SWE Multilingual in Coding, with scores of 77.5% and 63.1%.
- Laguna M.1 is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Laguna M.1 also has the larger context window at 256K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Opus 4.5 | Laguna M.1 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Poolside |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 256K |
| Overall Score | 58.41 | 3.93 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 45 | 10 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $5.00 / $25.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 43.2 (Estimated · #97/152)
- Laguna M.1 public-lane score: 23.9 (Estimated · #147/152)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Laguna M.1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 59.3% | 45.8% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| OSWorld-Verified | 66.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld | 66.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 59.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | 52.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | 70.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | 23.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | 26.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | 43.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 42.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP-Tasks | 71.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 76.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CyberGym | 50.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 64.23% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| JobBench | 32.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 34.1% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 56.6 (Estimated · #36/151)
- Laguna M.1 public-lane score: 29.7 (Supported · #140/151)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Laguna M.1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 80.9% | 74.6% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 84.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 57.1% | 49.2% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| SWE Multilingual | 77.5% | 63.1% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| NL2Repo | 43.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 45.8% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 68.1% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 57.6% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 23.5 (#46/48)
- Laguna M.1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Laguna M.1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | 70.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision | 74.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | 68.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | 84.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | 45.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| V* | 67.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 72.1 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- Laguna M.1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Laguna M.1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 64.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AI-Needle | 74% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 53.9 (Estimated · #61/183)
- Laguna M.1 public-lane score: 18.6 (Estimated · #182/183)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Laguna M.1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 87% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | 70.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 89.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | 96.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | 92.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 30.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 27.0% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 68.8% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 39.5 (#105/123)
- Laguna M.1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Laguna M.1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 90.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFBench | 58% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 82.9 (#2/12)
- Laguna M.1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Laguna M.1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | 85.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | 56.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 58.3 (#6/7)
- Laguna M.1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Laguna M.1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 95.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 92.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | 93.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 85.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | 84.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 20.690% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 4.167% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude Opus 4.5 or Laguna M.1?

Claude Opus 4.5 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Claude Opus 4.5 and Laguna M.1?

The widest category gap is in knowledge, where the averages are 53.9 for Claude Opus 4.5 and 18.6 for Laguna M.1.

### How many benchmarks does Claude Opus 4.5 cover on BenchLM?

Claude Opus 4.5 currently has 45 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Laguna M.1 cover on BenchLM?

Laguna M.1 currently has 10 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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