# Claude Opus 4.6 vs dots3-note Preview

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Opus 4.6 and dots3-note Preview across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-opus-4-6-vs-dots3-note-preview
- Last updated: September 28, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 7
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.7

## Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Opus 4.6 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. dots3-note Preview only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Claude Opus 4.6 leads overall 63.61 to 62.64.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 51 for Claude Opus 4.6 and 85.2 for dots3-note Preview.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is DeepSearchQA in Agentic, with scores of 73.7% and 92.1%.
- dots3-note Preview is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Claude Opus 4.6 also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Opus 4.6 | dots3-note Preview |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Dots Studio |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 512K |
| Overall Score | 63.61 | 62.64 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 34 | 31 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $5.00 / $25.00 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Opus 4.6 public-lane score: 44.4 (Supported · #44/117)
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 56.4 (Estimated · #28/117)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | dots3-note Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 65.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 83.7% | 83.3% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| OSWorld-Verified | 72.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 70.4% | 73.4% | dots3-note Preview |
| DeepSearchQA | 73.7% | 92.1% | dots3-note Preview |
| CyberGym | 66.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 61.85% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | 19.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| JobBench | 36.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ApprenticeBench | 5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 75.1% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | Coming soon | 55.6% | Coming soon |
| skillsBench | Coming soon | 52.8% | Coming soon |
| APEX-Agents | Coming soon | 30.8% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | Coming soon | 52.6% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 78.9% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.6 public-lane score: 49.5 (Supported · #41/142)
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | dots3-note Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 80.8% | 78.4% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| SWE-bench Verified* | 75.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench Pro | 70.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 53.4% | 61% | dots3-note Preview |
| SWE-Rebench | 65.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | 84.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | 57.57% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Main | 26.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Codeforces | Coming soon | 3056.0 | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 91.5% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 75.1% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 75.7% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 49.8% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.6 public-lane score: 68.3 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 72.9 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | dots3-note Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | Coming soon | 81.4% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.6 public-lane score: 60.6 (#30/50)
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 67.2 (Unranked · 10 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | dots3-note Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | 77.3% | 79.1% | dots3-note Preview |
| ERQA | 51.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | 83.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (MM) | 64.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 72.5% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 87.7% | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench | Coming soon | 19.0% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | Coming soon | 83.1% | Coming soon |
| GDP.pdf (no tools) | Coming soon | 60.7% | Coming soon |
| PerceptionBench | Coming soon | 53.4% | Coming soon |
| BabyVision | Coming soon | 50.0% | Coming soon |
| MMVU | Coming soon | 79.9% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 86.8% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.6 public-lane score: 58.7 (Estimated · #42/168)
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | dots3-note Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 91.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 89.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | 95% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 82% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Arcee) | 89.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 53% | 52.6% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| HLE w/o tools | 40% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Hard | 14.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (Text) | 52.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Opus 4.6 public-lane score: 51 (#79/124)
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 85.2 (#37/124)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | dots3-note Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 80.4% | Coming soon |
| IFEval | Coming soon | 93.9% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.6 public-lane score: 58.5 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | dots3-note Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME25 (Arcee) | 99.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 40.700% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 22.900% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IMOAnswerBench | Coming soon | 90.9% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude Opus 4.6 or dots3-note Preview?

Claude Opus 4.6 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Claude Opus 4.6 and dots3-note Preview?

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 51 for Claude Opus 4.6 and 85.2 for dots3-note Preview.

### How many benchmarks does Claude Opus 4.6 cover on BenchLM?

Claude Opus 4.6 currently has 34 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does dots3-note Preview cover on BenchLM?

dots3-note Preview currently has 31 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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- [dots3-note Preview vs GPT-6 Astra](/compare/dots3-note-preview-vs-gpt-6-astra)

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