VERIFIEDOct 142026
Is Claude Opus 4.1 state of the art?
It used to be.Was SOTA in General LLM.
As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.1 from Anthropic. Was SOTA in General LLM. Was SOTA in Long context from 2025-08-18 to 2025-08-27. Currently ranked #43.
General LLMWas SOTA#57 · 422dGeneral LLM · pareto#73 in this category#73 · 0dReasoningWas SOTA#47 · 362dReasoning · pareto#60 in this category#60 · 0dMath#27 in this category#27 · 0dMath · pareto#27 in this category#27 · 0dScience#83 in this category#83 · 0dCodingNot enough dataINSUFFICIENT_DATA · 0dCoding › Web devWas SOTA#74 · 336dCoding › Web dev · pareto#84 in this category#84 · 0d
Why
The ruling, in plain English
Was SOTA in General LLM from 2025-08-18 to 2025-08-27. Currently ranked #57.
Receipts
Evidence
| Source | Score | Date | Type | Receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall) claude-opus-4-1-20250805 | 1447.9555797101614 1445.0–1450.9 | 2026-10-13 | INDEP. | snap_7d2d37f2ecb4 |
| LMArena Text (style-controlled, hard prompts) claude-opus-4-1-20250805 | 1477.8189414422088 1474.0–1481.7 | 2026-10-13 | INDEP. | snap_7d2d37f2ecb4 |
| Humanity's Last Exam claude-opus-4-1-20250805_unknown | 0.1152 0.1–0.1 | 2025-08-05 | INDEP. | snap_fee7890b5dd0 |
| GPQA Diamond claude-opus-4-1-20250805 | 0.7323232323232324 0.7–0.8 | 2025-08-05 | INDEP. | snap_fee7890b5dd0 |
| SWE-bench Verified claude-opus-4-1-20250805 | 0.7334710743801653 0.7–0.8 | 2025-08-05 | INDEP. | snap_fee7890b5dd0 |
| LMArena WebDev claude-opus-4-1-20250805 | 1389.9370897727906 1379.2–1400.7 | 2026-10-13 | INDEP. | snap_c2cbd1c7f35e |
| LMArena Text (style-controlled, longer query) claude-opus-4-1-20250805 | 1471.7668415927792 1466.7–1476.8 | 2026-10-13 | INDEP. | snap_7d2d37f2ecb4 |
| LMArena Text factuality claude-opus-4-1-20250805 | 1435.1550958667628 1431.8–1438.5 | 2026-10-13 | INDEP. | snap_af980e7d8ae9 |
Reign history
Where it sits in the succession
General LLM
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
GPT-4O
O1 Preview
O1
DeepSeek R1
O1
GPT-4.5 Preview
O3
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Gemini 2.5 Pro
O3
Claude Opus 4.1
Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPT-5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPT-5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPT-4.5 Preview
Gemini 3 Pro
Claude Opus 4.6
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Claude Opus 4.6
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
GPT-5.4
Muse Spark
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Muse Spark
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
GPT-5.5
Muse Spark
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Muse Spark
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Muse Spark
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Muse Spark 1.1
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 5
Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Muse Spark 1.2
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Muse Spark 1.2
Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5.1
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Gemini 3.8 Flash
Muse Spark 1.2
Gemini 4 Argon
Reasoning
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
O1 Mini
O1 Preview
O1 Preview
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
O1 Preview
O1
O1 Preview
DeepSeek R1
O1
DeepSeek R1
O1
O3 Mini
DeepSeek R1
O1
DeepSeek R1
GPT-4.5 Preview
O1
DeepSeek R1
GPT-4.5 Preview
DeepSeek R1
DeepSeek V3 0324
GPT-4.5 Preview
O3
Claude Opus 4
O3
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Gemini 2.5 Pro
O3
Gemini 2.5 Pro
O3
Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507
Claude Opus 4.1
Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPT-5
Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507
Claude Opus 4.1
Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPT-5
Claude Opus 4.1
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Gemini 3 Pro
Claude Opus 4.5
Gemini 3 Pro
Claude Opus 4.6
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.6
Muse Spark
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 5
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 5
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5.1
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 5.5
Gemini 4 Argon
Coding › Web dev
Claude Opus 4.1
Claude Sonnet 4.5
GLM 4.6
Gemini 3 Pro
Claude Opus 4.5
Gemini 3 Pro
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.6
GLM 5.1
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.8
Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5
GPT-5.6 Sol
Kimi K3
Claude Opus 5
Kimi K3
Claude Opus 5
Claude Opus 5
Kimi K3
Claude Fable 5.1
Claude Fable 5.1
GPT-6 Astra
GPT-6 Astra
Claude Opus 5.5
GPT-6 Astra
Claude Opus 5.5
Long context
O1
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
O1
O1 Preview
DeepSeek R1
Gemini 2.0 Flash 001
O1
DeepSeek R1
O1
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
GPT-4.5 Preview
GPT-4.5 Preview
DeepSeek V3 0324
GPT-4.5 Preview
DeepSeek V3 0324
GPT-4.1
GPT-4.5 Preview
DeepSeek V3 0324
GPT-4.1
GPT-4.5 Preview
O3
O3
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Gemini 2.5 Pro
O3
Claude Opus 4.1
Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPT-5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPT-5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPT-4.5 Preview
Claude Sonnet 4.5
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Gemini 3 Pro
Claude Opus 4.5
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Gemini 3 Pro
Claude Opus 4.6
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Claude Opus 4.6
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Claude Opus 4.6
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
GLM 5.1
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
GPT-5.5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
GPT-5.5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.8
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.8
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Kimi K3
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 5
Kimi K3
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 5
Muse Spark 1.2
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5.1
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Gemini 3.8 Flash
Claude Opus 5.5
Gemini 4 Argon
Honest about the gaps
Where it is not the crown
| Category | This model | Why |
|---|---|---|
| General LLM | Was SOTA | Was SOTA in General LLM from 2025-08-18 to 2025-08-27. Currently ranked #57. |
| Reasoning | Was SOTA | Was SOTA in Reasoning from 2025-10-17 to 2025-11-17. Currently ranked #47. |
| Math | #27 in this category | Ranked #27 in Math. |
| Science | #83 in this category | Last listed at #83 in Science on 2025-08-05. That board does not award a crown. |
| Coding | Not enough data | #17 on SWE-bench Verified; missing Terminal-Bench 4.0, SWE-bench Pro V2 HARD, and LMArena Text (style-controlled, coding) |
| Coding › Web dev | Was SOTA | Was SOTA in Coding › Web dev from 2025-11-12 to 2025-11-17. Currently ranked #74. |
| Long context | Was SOTA | Was SOTA in Long context from 2025-08-18 to 2025-08-27. Currently ranked #43. |
| Factuality | #74 in this category | Ranked #74 in Factuality. |