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Claude Opus 5 vs Kimi K3: Opus 5 leads the independent BenchLM aggregate 85.88 to 79.98 and posts a 43.3–43.5% Frontier-Bench score that K3 has never even been tested on.
Interactive FrontierBench v0.1 leaderboard with Claude Opus 5 now leading at 43.5%, GPT-5.6 Sol at 34.4%, Claude Fable 5 at 33.8%, and 9 models ranked by professional computer-work task completion. From the team behind Terminal-Bench.
Claude Opus 5 vs Claude Fable 5: Opus 5 beats Fable 5 on 7 of 12 benchmarks including Frontier-Bench (+9.6) and OSWorld 2.0 — at half the price ($25 vs $50/1M output). Fable 5 edges SWE-bench Pro by just 0.8 pts. Full comparison with radar charts, pricing, data retention, and verdict.
Claude Opus 5 vs GPT-5.6 Sol: Opus 5 leads 9 of 12 benchmarks including SWE-bench Pro (+14.6 pts) and ARC-AGI-3 (3.9× better). Sol counters with Terminal-Bench 2.1 (91.9% Ultra) and DeepSWE. Opus 5 costs 17% less on output ($25 vs $30/1M). Full comparison with radar charts, pricing, and verdict.
Interactive FrontierCode v1.1 Main leaderboard with Claude Fable 5 at 53.5%, Claude Opus 5 at 53.4%, and 21 models ranked by production-code pull request quality. Updated July 24, 2026.
Interactive DeepSWE v1.1 leaderboard with Claude Opus 5 at 74.0%, GPT-5.6 Sol at 72.7%, and 18 models ranked by long-horizon software engineering ability. Updated July 25, 2026.
Kimi K3 vs Claude Opus 4.8: K3 leads all 9 shared coding benchmarks and costs 40% less. Opus 4.8 counters with independently verified scores, adjustable reasoning, and mature production tooling. Full comparison with radar charts and pricing tables.
GPT-5.6 Sol vs Claude Opus 4.8: detailed comparison across pricing, caching, 1M context, coding and professional benchmarks, long context, MCP Atlas, graphs, radar, and routing guidance.
Claude Sonnet 5 (63.2% Pro, $15/1M) vs Opus 4.8 (69.2%, $25/1M). Sonnet 5 beats Opus on knowledge work (GDPval 1618 vs 1615), ties on HLE with tools (57.4% vs 57.9%), and delivers 93% of Opus capability at 60% of the price. Full benchmark comparison from Anthropic's Sonnet 5 System Card.
Claude Opus 4.8 leads every benchmark — but GLM-5.2 is within 0.7 pts on FrontierSWE and 0.8 pts on MCP Atlas. At $4.40 vs $25 per 1M (5.7× cheaper) with MIT open weights, GLM-5.2 is the first open-weight model that makes Opus look expensive. Full 8-benchmark comparison from Z.AI & LLM Stats data.
Anthropic's two best non-Mythos models face off. Claude Opus 4.8 ($25/1M, 69.2% Pro) leads Sonnet 4.6 ($15/1M) on all benchmarks by 1-13 pts. But Sonnet handles 1M context at standard pricing, costs 1.7x less, and was preferred by devs over Opus 4.5. Full sibling comparison.
Claude Opus 4.8 (69.2% Pro, $25/1M) dominates every benchmark vs Kimi K2.6 (58.6%, $4/1M) by 3-11 pts. But Kimi fights back on BrowseComp (-3.9), Agent Swarm (300 sub-agents), DeepSearchQA (92.5%), and is 6.25× cheaper. Full comparison with real benchmark data, 10-point verdict.