May 30, 2025
Opus (Nonthinking) evaluated on our benchmarks; Sonnet 4 evaluated on FAB.
Weβve released our evaluation of Claude Opus 4 (Nonthinking) across our benchmarks!
We found:
- Opus 4 ranks #1 on both MMLU Pro and MGSM, narrowly setting new state-of-the-art scores. However, it achieves middle of the road performance across most other benchmarks.
- Compared to its predecessor (Opus 3), Opus 4 ranked higher on CaseLaw (#22 vs. #24/62) and LegalBench (#8 vs #32/67) but scored notably lower on ContractLaw (#16 vs. #2/69)
- Opus 4 is expensive, with an output cost of $75.00 /M tokens, 5x as much as Sonnet 4, and about 1.5x more expensive than o3 ($15 / $75 vs $10 / $40).
We also benchmarked Claude Sonnet 4 (Thinking) and Claude Sonnet 4 (Nonthinking) on our Finance Agent benchmark (the last remaining benchmark for this model). They performed nearly identically to Claude 3.7 Sonnet (Nonthinking).