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Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

AnthropicEstablishedReleased August 2025
Overall Score
Est. 43Prov. #76 of 119
Arena Elo
1062
Categories Ranked
8of 8
Price (1M tokens)
$ in / $ out
Speed
29tok/s
Context
200K
ProprietaryReasoning
Confidence
reasoning

According to BenchLM.ai, Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking ranks #76 out of 119 models on the provisional leaderboard with an overall score of 43/100. It does not yet have enough sourced coverage for BenchLM's verified leaderboard. While not a frontier model, it offers specific advantages depending on the use case.

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking is a proprietary model with a 200K token context window. It uses explicit chain-of-thought reasoning, which typically improves performance on math and complex reasoning tasks at the cost of higher latency and token usage.

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking sits inside the Claude 4.1 Opus family alongside Claude 4.1 Opus. This profile currently has 11 of 225 tracked benchmarks. BenchLM only exposes non-generated benchmark rows publicly, so missing categories stay blank until a sourced evaluation is available.

Its strongest category is Multimodal & Grounded (#40), while its weakest is Knowledge (#78). This performance profile makes it particularly strong for screenshots, documents, charts, and grounded multimodal workflows.

Ranking Distribution

Category rank across 8 benchmark categories — sorted by best rank

Category Performance

Scores across all benchmark categories (0-100 scale)

Category Breakdown

Agentic

#74
25.6/ 100
Weight: 22%1 benchmark
Terminal-Bench 2.0BrowseCompOSWorld-VerifiedGAIATAU-benchWebArena

Coding

#54
52.2/ 100
Weight: 20%3 benchmarks
SWE-bench VerifiedLiveCodeBenchSWE-bench ProSWE-RebenchSciCode

Reasoning

#54
48.8/ 100
Weight: 17%2 benchmarks
MuSRLongBench v2MRCRv2ARC-AGI-2

Knowledge

#78
35.1/ 100
Weight: 12%3 benchmarks
GPQASuperGPQAMMLU-ProHLEFrontierScienceSimpleQA

Math

#46
52.9/ 100
Weight: 5%0 benchmarks
AIME 2025BRUMO 2025MATH-500FrontierMath

Multilingual

#57
52.0/ 100
Weight: 7%0 benchmarks
MGSMMMLU-ProX

Multimodal

#40
64.9/ 100
Weight: 12%1 benchmark
MMMU-ProOfficeQA ProCharXivCharXiv w/o tools

Inst. Following

#41
76.9/ 100
Weight: 5%1 benchmark
IFEvalIFBench

Chatbot Arena Performance

Text Overall1062

Benchmark Details

Only benchmark rows with an attached exact-source record are shown here. Source-unverified manual rows and generated rows are hidden from model pages.

Claude 4.1 Opus Family

Reasoning

Canonical Entry

Claude 4.1 Opus
Claude 4.1 OpusProv. 51

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Frequently Asked Questions

How does Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking perform overall in AI benchmarks?

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking currently ranks #76 out of 119 models on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard with an overall score of 43 (estimated). It is created by Anthropic and features a 200K context window.

Is Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking good for knowledge and understanding?

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking ranks #78 out of 119 models in knowledge and understanding benchmarks with an average score of 35.1. There are stronger options in this category.

Is Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking good for coding and programming?

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking ranks #54 out of 119 models in coding and programming benchmarks with an average score of 52.2. There are stronger options in this category.

Is Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking good for reasoning and logic?

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking ranks #54 out of 119 models in reasoning and logic benchmarks with an average score of 48.8. There are stronger options in this category.

Is Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking good for agentic tool use and computer tasks?

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking ranks #74 out of 119 models in agentic tool use and computer tasks benchmarks with an average score of 25.6. There are stronger options in this category.

Is Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking good for multimodal and grounded tasks?

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking ranks #40 out of 119 models in multimodal and grounded tasks benchmarks with an average score of 64.9. There are stronger options in this category.

Is Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking good for instruction following?

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking ranks #41 out of 119 models in instruction following benchmarks with an average score of 76.9. There are stronger options in this category.

Which sibling models are related to Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking?

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking belongs to the Claude 4.1 Opus family. Related variants on BenchLM include Claude 4.1 Opus.

Does Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking have full benchmark coverage on BenchLM?

Not yet. Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking currently has 11 published benchmark scores out of the 225 benchmarks BenchLM tracks. BenchLM only exposes non-generated public benchmark rows, so missing categories stay blank until a sourced evaluation is available.

What is the context window size of Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking?

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking has a context window of 200K, which determines how much text it can process in a single interaction.

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