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Claude Opus 4.6

Anthropic

Strongest in Human preference (#2 of 342), weakest in Secure code (#196 of 274). Above par in 21 of 25 scopes. Among the models it meets almost everywhere, it finishes behind Claude Fable 5 and Claude Fable 5.1 and ahead of Mimo V2.6 Pro and Claude Sonnet 5.

§ 1 · Profile

What it is good at

Bars run from 50 — the average of the models each source lists — so right of the line is above par. The middle column is the gap to whoever leads that scope.

Human preference67.1#2/342
Human preference67.1#2/342
Professional57.4#14/168
Finance58.7#10/151
Medical58.9#13/140
Legal55.8#36/151
Knowledge58.2#17/138
Academic knowledge59.9#15/123
Reasoning58.1#21/178
Reasoning60.1#20/140
Science59.5#28/122
Mathematics55.1#48/140
Core abilities52.7#65/204
Language57.6#17/57
General intelligence60#27/204
Instruction following41.9#42/57
Data analysis44.1#45/57
Coding51.1#66/165
Code generation51.6#39/77
Agentic coding50.9#66/157
Safety52#133/337
Harm refusal59#18/300
Factual grounding44.4#80/101
Fairness50.3#110/300
Secure code44.7#196/274

§ 2 · Head to head

What it beats, and what beats it

The same models turn up scope after scope. Counted once: where both were placed, who finished higher. Bars run right for Claude Opus 4.6, left for the other.

Mistral Medium 3.5won 15 · lost 0
Gemini 1.5 Prowon 16 · lost 0
Mistral Large 3won 18 · lost 0
Qwen3.6 Pluswon 20 · lost 0
Gemini 2.0 Flashwon 19 · lost 1
Gemini 3.5 Flash Litewon 19 · lost 1
Llama 4 Scout Instructwon 18 · lost 1
Mistral Smallwon 16 · lost 1
MiniMax M2.5won 15 · lost 1
Gemini 3 Flashwon 15 · lost 1
Kimi K2.7 Codewon 14 · lost 1
Command R Pluswon 14 · lost 1
Qwen3 Maxwon 14 · lost 1
Grok 4.3won 22 · lost 2
GPT-4o Miniwon 18 · lost 2
GPT-4.1 Nanowon 18 · lost 2
Command Awon 18 · lost 2
GPT-4.1 Miniwon 18 · lost 2
Grok 3won 17 · lost 2
Grok 4.1 Fastwon 17 · lost 2
Mimo V2.5 Prowon 17 · lost 2
Gemini 3.1 Flash Litewon 15 · lost 2
MiniMax M3won 21 · lost 3
Qwen3.5 Flashwon 13 · lost 2
DeepSeek V3.2won 18 · lost 3
GPT-5.4 Miniwon 18 · lost 3
GLM-4.6won 17 · lost 3
Grok 4 Fastwon 15 · lost 3
GPT OSS 20Bwon 14 · lost 3
Gemini 2.5 Flash Litewon 14 · lost 3
GLM-4.5won 14 · lost 3
DeepSeek V3won 18 · lost 4
GPT-5.4 Nanowon 18 · lost 4
Claude 3.5 Haikuwon 13 · lost 3
Grok 3 Miniwon 13 · lost 3
GPT OSS 120Bwon 17 · lost 4
Claude Haiku 4.5won 17 · lost 4
Kimi K2won 17 · lost 4
Kimi K2.5won 17 · lost 4
Claude Sonnet 4.5won 17 · lost 4
Grok Build 0.1won 12 · lost 3
Mistral Largewon 12 · lost 3
GPT-4owon 16 · lost 4
Kimi K2.6won 20 · lost 5
Inklingwon 19 · lost 5
GLM-5.2won 19 · lost 5
Claude 3.7 Sonnetwon 14 · lost 4
Gemma 4 31Bwon 14 · lost 4
GLM-5won 14 · lost 4
GLM-5.1won 14 · lost 4
Claude Opus 4.5won 17 · lost 5
MiniMax M2.7won 13 · lost 4
Claude Sonnet 4.6won 19 · lost 6
Qwen3.8 27Bwon 15 · lost 5
DeepSeek V4 Flashwon 18 · lost 6
Gemini 3.5 Flashwon 18 · lost 6
Gemini 3.6 Flashwon 18 · lost 6
Gemini 2.5 Flashwon 16 · lost 6
Kimi K2 Thinkingwon 13 · lost 5
GPT-4.1won 15 · lost 6
DeepSeek R1won 15 · lost 6
GPT-5.6 Lunawon 17 · lost 7
GLM-5.3 Flashwon 17 · lost 7
Qwen3.7 Maxwon 17 · lost 7
GPT-5 Nanowon 13 · lost 6
O4 Miniwon 15 · lost 7
Claude Sonnet 4won 15 · lost 7
Gemini 2.5 Prowon 15 · lost 7
GPT-5.2won 17 · lost 8
Claude 3.5 Sonnetwon 12 · lost 6
O1won 12 · lost 6
GPT-5 Miniwon 14 · lost 7
Qwen3 235B A22B Instructwon 14 · lost 7
O3won 14 · lost 7
GPT-6 Lunawon 14 · lost 7
Grok 4won 13 · lost 7
GLM-5.3won 13 · lost 7
DeepSeek V4 Prowon 16 · lost 9
Claude Opus 4won 14 · lost 8
O3 Miniwon 12 · lost 7
Qwen3.8 Maxwon 14 · lost 10
GPT-5.1won 11 · lost 8
DeepSeek V4.1 Flashwon 11 · lost 8
GPT-5won 12 · lost 9
GPT-5.4won 14 · lost 11
Gemini 3 Prowon 11 · lost 9
Gemini 3.1 Prowon 12 · lost 10
Claude Sonnet 5won 13 · lost 11
Mimo V2.6 Prowon 8 · lost 7
Grok 4.5won 12 · lost 12
GPT-5.6 Terrawon 12 · lost 12
Muse Spark 1.1won 12 · lost 12
Muse Spark 1.2won 9 · lost 10
Grok 4.7won 9 · lost 12
Gemini 3.8 Flashwon 10 · lost 14
Gemini 3.7 Flashwon 8 · lost 12
Kimi K3won 8 · lost 12
GPT-6 Astrawon 7 · lost 12
GPT-5.6 Solwon 9 · lost 16
GPT-5.5won 8 · lost 17
GPT-6 Solwon 7 · lost 15
Grok 4.6won 7 · lost 17
Claude Opus 4.7won 6 · lost 19
Claude Opus 4.8won 5 · lost 19
Muse Spark 1.3won 3 · lost 13
Claude Opus 5won 4 · lost 20
Claude Opus 5.5won 3 · lost 18
Claude Fable 5.1won 2 · lost 18
Claude Fable 5won 2 · lost 18

§ 3 · Sources

Where the numbers come from

8 publications, 30 figures. Every one links to the page it was read from.

LMArena Text ↗1 measureread 2026-09-26
LMArena Text 1505
ARC-AGI-2 ↗1 measureread 2026-09-26
ARC-AGI-2 68.8%
LiveBench ↗8 measuresread 2026-09-26
LiveBench 74.5LiveBench · Reasoning 88.7LiveBench · Coding 78.2LiveBench · Agentic Coding 49LiveBench · Mathematics 89.3LiveBench · Data Analysis 69.9LiveBench · Language 83.3LiveBench · Instruction Following 63.3
Kagi LLM Benchmark ↗1 measureread 2026-09-26
Kagi LLM Benchmark 83.6%
SimpleBench ↗1 measureread 2026-09-26
SimpleBench 67.6%
Vals.ai ↗13 measuresread 2026-09-26
Vals · CaseLaw 62.06%Vals · LegalBench 85.3%Vals · CorpFin 67.02%Vals · TaxEval 75.96%Vals · MortgageTax 68.52%Vals · MedQA 95.41%Vals · MedCode 49.13%Vals · MedScribe 86.13%Vals · SWE-bench Verified 78.2% (Mini-SWE-agent)Vals · Vibe Code Bench 53.5% (OpenHands)Vals · GPQA Diamond 89.65%Vals · MMLU Pro 89.11%Vals · AIME 95.63%
Enkrypt AI Safety Leaderboard ↗4 measuresread 2026-09-26
Enkrypt · Harmful content risk 0.6%Enkrypt · CBRN risk 8.7%Enkrypt · Bias risk 77.3%Enkrypt · Insecure code risk 44.4%
Vectara · Factual consistency 87.8%

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