Claude 4 Opus: benchmark scores, price and ranking

Claude 4 Opus from Anthropic ranks #153 of 743 LLMs on the LLMs Tiger aggregate benchmark score (51.0), based on 1 benchmark results captured up to 2026-10-13.

Organisation: Anthropic
Type: Frontier model
Open weights: No
Released: 2025-05-22 (source: curated)
Cheapest API price: $5.00 in / $25.00 out per million tokens (via snowflake, observed 2026-10-13T21:47Z)
Aggregate rank: #153 of 743 (score 51.0)

Across the 1 benchmark where at least ten models are scored, Claude 4 Opus is in the top 10% on 0 and in the top half on 1.

Its cheapest listed input price, $5.00 per million tokens, is lower than that of 7% of the 427 models with a listed price.

Claude 4 Opus benchmark results

Claude 4 Opus benchmark scores, ranked against all models measured on each benchmark
Benchmark	Score	Rank	Source	Captured
SWE-bench Verified	67.6%	#23 of 73	SWE-bench Verified leaderboard	2026-10-13

About Claude 4 Opus

Claude 4 Opus is a frontier model from Anthropic. It was released on 2025-05-22, according to the developer's announcement. The cheapest API listing we track charges $5.00 per million input tokens and $25.00 per million output tokens, through snowflake. We hold 1 benchmark result for it across 1 area, and none is in the top tenth of its board.

Where Claude 4 Opus stands

On our aggregate score, Claude 4 Opus is #153 of 743 ranked models, in the top quarter. Its score is 51.0; the scale is centred on 50, so it sits 1.0 points above the typical model. That beats 79% of the ranked field. Among the 70 ranked Anthropic models it is #25. The next one up is Claude 4.5 Sonnet at 51.2. The next one down is claude-sonnet-4-20250514_59K at 50.9.

Claude 4 Opus, benchmark by benchmark

SWE-bench Verified puts Claude 4 Opus at 67.6%, #23 of 73. That beats 68% of the models tested, but 15.9 points short of Claude Opus 4.7 (max) (83.5%). The results either side are GPT-5.1 (high) (68.0%) and Claude 4.5 Haiku (66.6%). It covers real GitHub issues resolved. The board median is 56.4%, so Claude 4 Opus is 11.2 points above it. Source: SWE-bench Verified leaderboard, captured 2026-10-13.

Price and value

The median input price across the 427 priced models is $0.500 per million tokens, so Claude 4 Opus costs more than the typical listing. Models that score within 1.5 points or better and cost less: Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct ($0.010, 49.5), DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (max) ($0.016, 53.1), GLM-5.3-Flash (max) ($0.026, 49.6). Similar scores cost more on gpt-4-1106-preview ($10.00) and o1-2024-12-17 ($15.00).

Release history

The Anthropic model released before it was claude-sonnet-4-20250514_59K on 2025-05-14, which scores 50.9. The next one was Claude 4 Sonnet on 2025-05-22, at 54.5.

Reading these numbers

The 1 score on this page comes from 1 source: SWE-bench Verified leaderboard (1). 1 of them come from an official leaderboard and 0 from datasets or third-party runs. With 1 results the aggregate rank can move a lot when one new score arrives.

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