Claude Opus 4.5 vs Free Models Router
Updated October 21, 2026; no benchmark has tested both models yet.
Claude Opus 4.5Anthropic
- Coding
- 44.0
- Overall
- 55.7
- Output $/M
- $25.00
Free Models RouterOpenRouter
- Coding
- No data
- Overall
- No data
- Output $/M
- No data
vs 200K vs 200K context window. About the same size.
Claude Opus 4.5 or Free Models Router: which to pick
Only Claude Opus 4.5 has a coding score, 44.0 on the Vibe Coding Index; Free Models Router has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Compare them on price, context and the boards below.
Model AClaude Opus 4.5Anthropic44.0/1003 independent benchmarks$1.37 per solved taskModel BFree Models RouterOpenRouterNot benchmarkedNo coding benchmarkNo cost per solved task
No benchmark has tested both yet. Claude Opus 4.5 has results on SWE-bench Verified, SWE-bench (full test set) and SWE-bench Multilingual; Free Models Router has none yet. Compare them on price and context instead.
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
Only Claude Opus 4.5 has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only Claude Opus 4.5 has a AA Intelligence Index result, 29.1.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Claude Opus 4.5 has a GPQA Diamond result, 85.9%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only Claude Opus 4.5 has a AIME result, 95.4%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Claude Opus 4.5 has a MMLU Pro result, 87.3%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Claude Opus 4.5 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1247.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
No call
Both take 200K tokens.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Free Models Router
Claude Opus 4.5 $0.018, Free Models Router $0.0000 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Claude Opus 4.5 has the number, $1.37.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Claude Opus 4.5 44.0 from 3 benchmarks, Free Models Router not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- None yet: no category has been tested on both models.
- Widest single gap
- None yet: no benchmark has tested both models.
- Output price
- Claude Opus 4.5 $25.00 against Free Models Router Free per million output tokens.
- Context window
- Both take 200K tokens.
Benchmark by benchmark
Every board either model has a result on, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale. Only one model is measured on each, so no row names a leader.
CodingDirectional onlySix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index17 boards measured
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Free Models Router | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 79.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| SWE-bench (full test set) | 52.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 70.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1494 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 83.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 76.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 20.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 87.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 47.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench | 63.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| GSO-Bench | 26.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| WeirdML | 63.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| Cybench | 82.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1503 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1483 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1478 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1510 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 22 boards here | |||
IntelligenceDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index2 boards measured
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Free Models Router | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 29.1 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 150.1 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index13 boards measured
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Free Models Router | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | 1159 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | 1156 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | 1189 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Android apps | 1175 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 89.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| METR time horizons | 75.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| Remote Labor Index | 3.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| GDPval | 45.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| BALROG | 43.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| DeepResearch Bench | 54.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| OSWorld | 66.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $4,967 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) | 77.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 28 boards here | |||
ReasoningDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index16 boards measured
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Free Models Router | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 85.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 83.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 86.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 30.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 86.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| ARC-AGI | 80.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 37.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| SimpleBench | 62.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| Chess puzzles | 14.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 22.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| EBR-bench | 14.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| VPCT | 40.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1476 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1487 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1482 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 80.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10 boards measured
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Free Models Router | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 95.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | 95.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| AA Math Index | 91.3 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 91.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 86.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 34.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 4.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| ProofBench | 36.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1463 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1468 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index16 boards measured
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Free Models Router | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 87.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 84.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | 62.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 65.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 74.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 68.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | 95.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 49.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 89.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 45.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| GeoBench | 75.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1454 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1444 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1459 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1448 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| FACTS Benchmark Suite | 43.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 2 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards measured
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Free Models Router | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1247 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1238 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1229 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1243 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1214 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1242 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1181 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1190 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index26 boards measured
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Free Models Router | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 52.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 85.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| IFBench | 58.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 77.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| DTBench | 89.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| LMCA | 44.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| CL-bench | 21.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| Furniture assembly | 28.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1451 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1478 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1445 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1461 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1438 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1470 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1449 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1417 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1424 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1471 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1457 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1447 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1439 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1466 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1479 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1452 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1434 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Document | 1462 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 20 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
Claude Opus 4.5$0.018Fits in one request
Free Models Router$0.0000Fits in one request
Free Models Router costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Claude Opus 4.5$0.325Fits in one request
Free Models Router$0.0000Fits in one request
Free Models Router costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Claude Opus 4.5$1.25Exceeds the context window
Free Models Router$0.0000Exceeds the context window
Free Models Router 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 4.5 | Free Models Router |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Anthropic | OpenRouter |
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | November 24, 2025 | February 1, 2026 |
| Context window | 200K | 200K |
| Input $/Mtok | $5.00 | Free |
| Output $/Mtok | $25.00 | Free |
| Coding index | 44.0 | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 3 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | $1.37 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Claude Opus 4.5 better than Free Models Router for coding?
Only Claude Opus 4.5 has a coding score, 44.0 on the Vibe Coding Index; Free Models Router has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Compare them on price, context and the boards below.
Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.5 or Free Models Router?
Claude Opus 4.5 costs $5.00 per million input tokens and $25.00 per million output tokens; Free Models Router costs Free and Free. Cost per solved task is known for Claude Opus 4.5 only.
Which has the bigger context window, Claude Opus 4.5 or Free Models Router?
Neither: both take 200K tokens.
Has any benchmark tested both Claude Opus 4.5 and Free Models Router?
No benchmark has tested both yet. Claude Opus 4.5 has results on SWE-bench Verified, SWE-bench (full test set) and SWE-bench Multilingual; Free Models Router has none yet. Compare them on price and context instead. Data as of October 21, 2026.