Claude Opus 4.1 (unknown thinking): benchmark scores, price and ranking

Claude Opus 4.1 (unknown thinking) from Anthropic ranks #292 of 743 LLMs on the LLMs Tiger aggregate benchmark score (49.1), based on 7 benchmark results captured up to 2026-10-13.

Organisation
Anthropic
Type
Frontier model
Open weights
No
Released
2025-08-05 (source: epoch)
Cheapest API price
$15.00 in / $75.00 out per million tokens (via openrouter, observed 2026-10-13T20:47Z)
Aggregate rank
#292 of 743 (score 49.1)

Relative to other models, Claude Opus 4.1 (unknown thinking) is strongest on SimpleBench (#8 of 61) and weakest on WebDev Arena (#38 of 67).

Across the 7 benchmarks where at least ten models are scored, Claude Opus 4.1 (unknown thinking) is in the top 10% on 0 and in the top half on 6.

Its cheapest listed input price, $15.00 per million tokens, is lower than that of 2% of the 427 models with a listed price.

Claude Opus 4.1 (unknown thinking) benchmark results

Claude Opus 4.1 (unknown thinking) benchmark scores, ranked against all models measured on each benchmark
BenchmarkScoreRankSourceCaptured
SimpleBench60.0%#8 of 61Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub2026-10-13
EnigmaEval7.2%#6 of 24Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub2026-10-13
LMCA37.1%#39 of 108Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub2026-10-13
DTBench80.0%#54 of 146Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub2026-10-13
Humanity's Last Exam11.5%#12 of 27Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub2026-10-13
Terminal-Bench 2.038.0%#14 of 28Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub2026-10-13
WebDev Arena1,389#38 of 67Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub2026-10-13

About Claude Opus 4.1 (unknown thinking)

Claude Opus 4.1 (unknown thinking) is a frontier model from Anthropic. It was released on 2025-08-05, according to Epoch AI. The cheapest API listing we track charges $15.00 per million input tokens and $75.00 per million output tokens, through openrouter. We hold 7 benchmark results for it across 4 areas, and none is in the top tenth of its board.

Where Claude Opus 4.1 (unknown thinking) stands

On our aggregate score, Claude Opus 4.1 (unknown thinking) is #292 of 743 ranked models, around the middle of the table. Its score is 49.1; the scale is centred on 50, so it sits 0.9 points below the typical model. That beats 61% of the ranked field. Among the 70 ranked Anthropic models it is #47. The next one up is Claude 3.5 Sonnet at 49.2. The next one down is claude-sonnet-4-20250514 at 48.9.

Claude Opus 4.1 (unknown thinking), benchmark by benchmark

SimpleBench puts Claude Opus 4.1 (unknown thinking) at 60.0%, #8 of 61. That beats 87% of the models tested, but 21.9 points short of Claude Fable 5 (max) (81.9%). The results either side are grok-4-0709 (60.5%) and claude-opus-4-1-20250805 (60.0%). It covers trick questions that test common sense. The board median is 41.4%, so Claude Opus 4.1 (unknown thinking) is 18.6 points above it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.

On EnigmaEval, Claude Opus 4.1 (unknown thinking) reaches 7.2%. It ranks #6 of 24, ahead of 75% of the field, and 11.1 points behind Gemini 3 Pro Preview at 18.2%. The results either side are Claude Opus 4.6 (max) (7.6%) and Claude Opus 4 (5.6%). It covers multi-step puzzle hunts. The board median is 2.9%, so Claude Opus 4.1 (unknown thinking) is 4.3 points above it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.

Claude Opus 4.1 (unknown thinking) manages 37.1% on LMCA, good for #39 of 108. Claude Opus 5.5 (max) leads at 68.2%, 31.2 points further up, and 64% of models sit below. The results either side are Kimi K2.6 (37.3%) and nemotron-3-ultra (36.9%). It covers language-model capability assessment. The board median is 29.2%, so Claude Opus 4.1 (unknown thinking) is 7.9 points above it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.

DTBench puts Claude Opus 4.1 (unknown thinking) at 80.0%, #54 of 146. That beats 63% of the models tested, but 18.9 points short of Claude Opus 5.5 (max) (98.9%). The results either side are Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 (80.3%) and GPT-5.4 mini (xhigh) (80.0%). It covers dynamic tool-use benchmark. The board median is 68.8%, so Claude Opus 4.1 (unknown thinking) is 11.2 points above it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.

On Humanity's Last Exam, Claude Opus 4.1 (unknown thinking) reaches 11.5%. It ranks #12 of 27, ahead of 56% of the field, and 29.0 points behind Muse Spark at 40.6%. The results either side are Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview (Apr 2025) (12.1%) and gemini-2.5-flash-preview-05-20 (11.0%). It covers expert-level questions across domains. The board median is 10.7%, so Claude Opus 4.1 (unknown thinking) is 0.8 points above it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.

Claude Opus 4.1 (unknown thinking) manages 38.0% on Terminal-Bench 2.0, good for #14 of 28. Gemini 3 Pro Preview leads at 69.4%, 31.4 points further up, and 50% of models sit below. The results either side are claude-opus-4-1-20250805 (38.0%) and MiniMax-M2.1 (36.6%). It covers real terminal tasks (agent + model). The board median is 37.3%, so Claude Opus 4.1 (unknown thinking) is 0.7 points above it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.

Claude Opus 4.1 (unknown thinking) lands below the middle on WebDev Arena: 1,389, #38 of 67, with 55% of the field scoring higher. Claude Opus 5.5 (max) leads at 1,820; the closest result above is MiniMax-M2.7 at 1,398. It covers building web apps, crowd-voted (Elo). The board median is 1,433, so Claude Opus 4.1 (unknown thinking) is 45 points below it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.

Strengths and weaknesses

Software engineering: uneven, ahead of 47% of the field on average across 2 benchmarks. Its best board here is Terminal-Bench 2.0 (#14 of 28) and its weakest is WebDev Arena (#38 of 67). Reasoning, maths and science: solid, ahead of 72% of the field on average across 3 benchmarks. Its best board here is SimpleBench (#8 of 61) and its weakest is Humanity's Last Exam (#12 of 27).

Price and value

The median input price across the 427 priced models is $0.500 per million tokens, so Claude Opus 4.1 (unknown thinking) 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 V4.1 Flash (high) ($0.010, 48.9), DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (max) ($0.016, 53.1). Similar scores cost more on GPT-4 (0125) ($30.00) and gpt-4.5-preview ($75.00).

Release history

The Anthropic model released before it was claude-opus-4-1-20250805_32K on 2025-08-05, which scores 46.0. The next one was Claude 4.5 Sonnet on 2025-09-29, at 51.2.

Reading these numbers

The 7 scores on this page come from 1 source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub (7). No official leaderboard supplied any of them, so treat them as third-party measurements. The leaderboard also lists 1 other reasoning-effort setting of this model, which redirect here. This page shows the highest. With 7 results the aggregate rank can move a lot when one new score arrives.

Claude Opus 4.1 (unknown thinking) is also listed at 1 other reasoning-effort setting; this page shows the highest-effort row, which is the one the leaderboard keeps by default.

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