Claude Opus 4.1 vs o3 Mini
Claude Opus 4.1 leads o3 Mini on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 22.8 to 12.5, and o3 Mini costs 17.0x less per output token ($4.40 vs $75.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 51 benchmarks have a result for both.
Claude Opus 4.1 or o3 Mini: which to pick
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Claude Opus 4.1 for work measured by LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) or SciCode, where it leads.
- Shared results
- 51
- Claude Opus 4.1 only
- 22
- o3 Mini only
- 20
- Like-for-like categories
- 6 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Neither has a coding score yet.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Claude Opus 4.1
Claude Opus 4.1 leads, 22.8 against 12.5.
Same board, both measured
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
Claude Opus 4.1
Claude Opus 4.1 leads, 76.3% against 75.5%.
Same board, both measured
Math
AIME
o3 Mini
o3 Mini leads, 86.5% against 78.2%.
Same board, both measured
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
Claude Opus 4.1
Claude Opus 4.1 leads, 87.9% against 78.7%.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Claude Opus 4.1 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1176.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
No call
Both take 200K tokens.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
o3 Mini
Claude Opus 4.1 $0.052, o3 Mini $0.0033 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- Claude Opus 4.1 not benchmarked, o3 Mini not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- General, 16.9 points apart on average over 20 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- SimpleBench: Claude Opus 4.1 60.0% against o3 Mini 22.8%, 37.2 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Claude Opus 4.1 $75.00 against o3 Mini $4.40 per million output tokens, 17.0x apart.
- Context window
- Both take 200K tokens.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | Claude Opus 4.1 | Bars | o3 Mini | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 4 | 2 | ||
| Intelligence | 2 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 7 | 0 | ||
| Math | 5 | 3 | ||
| Knowledge | 7 | 1 | ||
| General | 20 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 45 | 6 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index42
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | o3 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglot | Not measured | 60.4% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| SWE-bench Verified | Not measured | 42.4% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| SWE-bench Lite | Not measured | 32.3% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1390 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 66.5% | 71.5% | o3 Mini |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 73.4% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| SciCode | Not measured | 42.8% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 6.8% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| Terminal-Bench | 38.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| GSO-Bench | Not measured | 1.3% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| WeirdML | 45.9% | 43.7% | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| Cybench | 42.0% | 22.5% | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1479 | 1378 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1456 | 1364 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1399 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| SciCode | 4.6% | 7.7% | o3 Mini |
| Neither model has a result on the other 23 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | o3 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 22.8 | 12.5 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 144.1 | 140.2 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index4 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | o3 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| τ²-Bench Telecom | Not measured | 31.3% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| METR time horizons | 66.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| GDPval | 43.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| DeepResearch Bench | 48.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 37 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index70
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | o3 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 76.3% | 75.5% | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 77.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 77.3% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 12.0% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 77.3% | 77.0% | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| ARC-AGI | Not measured | 34.5% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | Not measured | 3.0% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| SimpleBench | 60.0% | 22.8% | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| Chess puzzles | Not measured | 15.0% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 21.0% | 7.0% | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| EBR-bench | 7.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| VPCT | 35.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1442 | 1365 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1438 | 1364 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1451 | 1375 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index53
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | o3 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 78.2% | 86.5% | o3 Mini |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | 95.4% | 91.8% | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | 94.4% | 91.3% | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 68.9% | 76.9% | o3 Mini |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 12.6% | 18.6% | o3 Mini |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 2.4% | 0.0% | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| MATH level 5 | Not measured | 96.5% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1431 | 1396 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1434 | 1399 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index71
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | o3 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 87.9% | 78.7% | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 83.5% | 71.5% | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | Not measured | 45.3% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 73.7% | 69.4% | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 61.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | 93.6% | 94.8% | o3 Mini |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 47.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 80.2% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | Not measured | 15.3% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1422 | 1339 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1416 | 1330 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1421 | 1328 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1406 | 1313 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| FACTS Benchmark Suite | 40.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | o3 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1176 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1162 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1171 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1166 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1152 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1170 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1152 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1167 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index200
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | o3 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 31.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 73.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| IFBench | Not measured | 67.1% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | Not measured | 43.0% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| DTBench | 80.0% | 68.8% | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMCA | 37.1% | 19.0% | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | Not measured | 50.0% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | 84.7% | 61.7% | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text | 1419 | 1337 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1435 | 1337 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1412 | 1286 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: English | 1433 | 1351 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1405 | 1319 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1427 | 1379 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: German | 1413 | 1303 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1377 | 1286 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1381 | 1313 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: French | 1433 | 1334 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1448 | 1321 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1422 | 1304 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1413 | 1294 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1444 | 1320 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1455 | 1343 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1418 | 1313 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1398 | 1283 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 21 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | o3 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
o3 Mini costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
o3 Mini costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
o3 Mini costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | Anthropic Claude Opus 4.1 | OpenAI o3 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | August 5, 2025 | January 31, 2025 |
| Context window | 200K | 200K |
| Input $/Mtok | $15.00 | $1.10 |
| Output $/Mtok | $75.00 | $4.40 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 1 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Claude Opus 4.1 better than o3 Mini for coding?
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Claude Opus 4.1 for work measured by LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) or SciCode, where it leads.
Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.1 or o3 Mini?
Claude Opus 4.1 costs $15.00 per million input tokens and $75.00 per million output tokens; o3 Mini costs $1.10 and $4.40. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, Claude Opus 4.1 or o3 Mini?
Neither: both take 200K tokens.
How many benchmarks is the Claude Opus 4.1 vs o3 Mini comparison based on?
51 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Claude Opus 4.1's coding index rests on 1 independent benchmark and o3 Mini's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.