Benchmark Almanac

Claude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8 ranks first on 16 of the 248 benchmarks it has scores on.

Anthropic Released 28 May 2026 Family Claude 4.8 The lab's model card
266
Benchmarks with a score
16
Ranked first, out of five or more models
44
In the top three
Anthropic May 2026

Claude Opus 4.8

Closed weights Flagship

159.6 #17 of 271
Epoch Capabilities Index
  • DeepSWE 59% #15 /28
  • Terminal-Bench 4.0 23.6% #14 /23
  • τ³-bench Banking 39.7% #8 /25

Where it ranks

Its best score on each benchmark, and where that ranks among every model with a score there. We rank each model once, at its best setting.

Knowledge and language

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
BullshitBench V2 95% #1 of 122 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench 96.4% #1 of 107 Official leaderboard
EQ-Bench 3 2,058 #2 of 78 Official leaderboard
LMArena (Elo) 1,482 #22 of 333 Official leaderboard
INCLUDE 87.6% #2 of 25 Model card
Humanity's Last Exam 57.9% #15 of 147 Model card
Creative Writing v3 79.7 #14 of 120 Official leaderboard
Longform Creative Writing (EQ-Bench) 80.8 #14 of 119 Official leaderboard
FACTS Search 80.3% #4 of 31 Official leaderboard
GraphWalks 99.3% #3 of 21 Model card
Global MMLU Lite 94.8% #7 of 43 Official leaderboard
SEA-HELM 75.6 #11 of 62 Official leaderboard
Document Arena 1,486 #7 of 37 Official leaderboard
Extended NYT Connections 91.1% #20 of 97 Official leaderboard
Judgemark v4 78.0 #9 of 40 Official leaderboard
FACTS Benchmark Suite 59.7% #11 of 40 Official leaderboard
EQ-Bench 4 1,268 #9 of 32 Official leaderboard
ECLeKTic 39% #3 of 10 Model card
SimpleQA Verified 44.5% #20 of 56 Official leaderboard
AA-Omniscience 37% #7 of 17 Model card
Global MMLU 90.4% #5 of 11 Model card
MILU 90.3% #5 of 10 Model card
False-premise questions (Anthropic) 77% #3 of 6 Model card
FACTS Multimodal 39.8% #20 of 39 Official leaderboard
FACTS Search V2 79.6% #13 of 21 Official leaderboard
FACTS Parametric 25.1% #30 of 45 Official leaderboard
100Q-Hard (Anthropic) 20% #6 of 7 Model card

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
MathArena (Apex, IMO, USAMO) 81.3% #1 of 47 Official leaderboard
xbench-ScienceQA 76.4% #1 of 29 Official leaderboard
AIME 2026 100% #2 of 31 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath 47.2% #5 of 70 Epoch AI
ProofBench 69% #6 of 59 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tier 4 31.3% #6 of 55 Epoch AI
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 98.3% #25 of 202 Epoch AI
DTBench 91.5% #24 of 178 Official leaderboard
GPQA Diamond 91% #31 of 219 Epoch AI
CritPt 20.9% #26 of 160 Epoch AI
Surface Evolver Bench 87.5% #5 of 26 Epoch AI
Organic Chemistry (Anthropic) 86.2% #1 of 5 Model card
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 80% #18 of 89 Epoch AI
ResearchClawBench 22.8 #5 of 23 Official leaderboard
HMMT 2026 95.5% #7 of 31 Official leaderboard
SimpleBench 64.8% #25 of 100 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI-2 72.1% #25 of 95 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 56.1% #19 of 71 Epoch AI
ARC-AGI 92.5% #27 of 92 Official leaderboard
BTF-3 0.13 #3 of 10 Epoch AI
BioPipelineBench (Anthropic) 87.7% #1 of 3 Model card
ForecastBench 61.6 #32 of 86 Official leaderboard
LatchBio Capabilities v1.0 45.3% #11 of 27 Official leaderboard
Verifying the Verifiers (Project APE CRED benchmark) 85% #10 of 23 Official leaderboard
BixBench3 46.0 #10 of 20 Official leaderboard
USAMO 2026 96.7% #3 of 6 Model card
Structural Biology (Anthropic) 79% #1 of 2 Model card
Terminal-Bench-Science 10.5% #10 of 17 Official leaderboard
ArXivMath 71.8% #5 of 8 Model card
scBench (LatchBio SingleCellBench) 58.2% #4 of 6 Model card
ProteinGym 39.6% #2 of 3 Model card
SpatialBench (LatchBio) 53.3% #6 of 6 Model card

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
SWE-bench Verified 88.6% #4 of 150 Model card
OpenHands Index 71.9% #2 of 33 Official leaderboard
EvoCode-Bench v2 59.1% #1 of 13 Official leaderboard
WeirdML 82.9% #9 of 112 Official leaderboard
FrontierCode 34.3% #1 of 12 Official leaderboard
PostTrainBench 34.1% #2 of 23 Official leaderboard
SWE-Bench Pro 69.2% #7 of 77 Model card
SWE-bench Multilingual 84.4% #7 of 70 Model card
GBAEval 70.9% #3 of 21 Official leaderboard
FrontierCS 74.5 #2 of 14 Official leaderboard
GSO-Bench 47.1% #5 of 30 Official leaderboard
Monthly-SWEBench 69% #2 of 12 Official leaderboard
SWE-Marathon 26% #2 of 12 Official leaderboard
SWE Atlas 57.3% #4 of 22 Official leaderboard
ALE-Bench 1,564 #23 of 121 Epoch AI
Vibe Code Bench 82.7% #23 of 115 Official leaderboard
Code Migration 47.3% #16 of 78 Official leaderboard
MirrorCode 65.6% #6 of 28 Epoch AI
TasteVal 84.2× #5 of 20 Official leaderboard
FrontierCode 1.1 46.5% #2 of 8 Official leaderboard
SWE Atlas Test Writing 49.6% #6 of 22 Official leaderboard
WebDev Arena 1,559 #29 of 105 Epoch AI
SWE Atlas Refactoring 46.7% #5 of 17 Official leaderboard
Senior SWE-Bench 30.5% #7 of 23 Official leaderboard
Code Arena 1,556 #39 of 124 Official leaderboard
PostTrainBench 1.1 33.8% #4 of 11 Official leaderboard
AndroidBench 72.4% #13 of 32 Official leaderboard
Vals RSI Index 0.24 #11 of 25 Official leaderboard
MLS-Bench 42.8% #7 of 15 Official leaderboard
DeepSWE 59% #15 of 28 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench-Live 34% #7 of 13 Official leaderboard
Vision2Web 76.1% #6 of 10 Official leaderboard
PostTrainBench 1.2 31% #11 of 17 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Multimodal 38.4% #7 of 10 Model card
GameDevBench 55.9% #8 of 10 Official leaderboard
ProgramBench 0% #21 of 25 Official leaderboard
FrontierCode 2.0 14.7% #22 of 26 Official leaderboard

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
PinchBench 2.0 93.5% #1 of 57 Official leaderboard
SnakeBench 35 #8 of 183 Official leaderboard
GAIA 88.7% #3 of 57 Official leaderboard
ScreenSpot-Pro 87.9% #2 of 25 Model card
UniClawBench 47.5% #1 of 10 Official leaderboard
MyPCBench 62% #1 of 9 Official leaderboard
LisanBench 9463.0 #15 of 133 Official leaderboard
Toolathlon-Verified 76.2% #3 of 25 Official leaderboard
OSWorld-Verified 83.4% #5 of 37 Model card
DeepSearchQA 93.1% #3 of 22 Model card
OSWorld 2.0 20.6% #1 of 7 Official leaderboard
BrowseComp 88.5% #12 of 77 Model card
Chess Puzzles 52% #15 of 83 Epoch AI
PACT 1,562 #5 of 26 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Nine Men's Morris 817 #7 of 36 Official leaderboard
EdgeBench 51.3 #1 of 5 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Checkers 1,080 #8 of 38 Official leaderboard
CEO-Bench $2,399,209 #4 of 19 Official leaderboard
Harbor-Index 20.7% #2 of 9 Official leaderboard
Long-Horizon-Terminal-Bench (LHTB) 49.2% #6 of 25 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Dots and Boxes 1,018 #9 of 37 Official leaderboard
DeepResearch Bench 50.2% #6 of 24 Epoch AI
OSWorld 2.1 44.4% #1 of 4 Official leaderboard
Mystery Game Puzzles 36% #21 of 80 Epoch AI
Game Arena Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe 426 #10 of 36 Official leaderboard
SkillsBench 54.1% #6 of 21 Official leaderboard
MCP Atlas 82.2% #10 of 34 Official leaderboard
Toolathlon 59.9% #11 of 37 Model card
Game Arena Go 1,097 #11 of 36 Official leaderboard
τ³-bench Banking 39.7% #8 of 25 Official leaderboard
LLM Chess 450 #41 of 124 Official leaderboard
OSWorld 2.0 (Aug 2026) 37.6% #1 of 3 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 2.1 78.9% #5 of 13 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Four in a Row 423 #15 of 38 Official leaderboard
Kaggle Game Arena 321 #17 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Dark Hex 258 #17 of 38 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Clobber 303 #17 of 36 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Lines of Action 522 #17 of 36 Official leaderboard
LiveClawBench 68.8% #9 of 17 Official leaderboard
EBR-bench 28.6% #15 of 28 Epoch AI
ARC-AGI-3 1.52% #13 of 24 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Coin Game 350 #19 of 35 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Word Art 367 #19 of 35 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 3.0 21.1% #6 of 11 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Five in a Row 452 #11 of 20 Official leaderboard
LMArena Search Arena 1,195 #20 of 35 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Bargaining 178 #21 of 36 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Reversi 381 #21 of 36 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 4.0 23.6% #14 of 23 Official leaderboard
Time Horizon Index: KSP 11.8% #8 of 13 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Word Association 166 #24 of 36 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Poker -6.35 #21 of 31 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Chess 622 #27 of 39 Official leaderboard
RecreationBench 31.1% #7 of 10 Official leaderboard
DRACO 80.4% #8 of 11 Model card
AutomationBench 15.5% #38 of 41 Model card

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
MortgageTax 69.9% #5 of 86 Official leaderboard
MedCode 53.2% #10 of 96 Official leaderboard
TaxEval v2 75.6% #14 of 129 Official leaderboard
GDPval-AA 1,890 #2 of 16 Model card
FORTE 77.2% #3 of 21 Official leaderboard
CorpFin v2 66.7% #18 of 119 Official leaderboard
CommerceAgentBench 55.1% #2 of 13 Official leaderboard
ProfBench 56.8% #13 of 72 Official leaderboard
Excel Modeling Benchmark 69.4% #15 of 76 Official leaderboard
E-Commerce Bench 4.98 #4 of 19 Official leaderboard
Harvey LAB (Legal Agent Benchmark) 9.58% #20 of 80 Official leaderboard
MedScribe 85.8% #25 of 98 Official leaderboard
Public Benefits Bench 68.1% #13 of 50 Official leaderboard
Legal Research Bench 43.8% #23 of 88 Official leaderboard
Remote Labor Index 8.33% #6 of 17 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Agent v2 53.9% #29 of 80 Official leaderboard
Vending-Bench Arena $6,196 #12 of 32 Official leaderboard
JobBench 48.4% #6 of 16 Official leaderboard
LegalBench 83.6% #53 of 138 Official leaderboard
Tax Agent Bench 30% #31 of 79 Official leaderboard
Vending-Bench 2 $5,787 #26 of 66 Official leaderboard
OfficeQA 77.6% #5 of 12 Model card
CADGenBench 34.5% #5 of 11 Official leaderboard
prinzbench 42.0 #12 of 26 Official leaderboard
OfficeQA Pro 66.2% #7 of 14 Model card
TaxCalcBench v2 36% #14 of 26 Official leaderboard
BlenderWorld 57.0 #7 of 13 Official leaderboard
APEX-Agents 48.9% #31 of 56 Epoch AI
EEBench 51.4% #15 of 26 Official leaderboard
FrontierFinance 45% #11 of 16 Official leaderboard
HealthBench Professional 55.8% #21 of 25 Model card
PolicyBench 75.8% #43 of 50 Official leaderboard
RedlineBench 44.4% #4 of 4 Official leaderboard

Vision, audio and robotics

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Vision Arena 1,286 #17 of 136 Official leaderboard
ChartQA Pro 72.3% #1 of 8 Model card
ChartMuseum 75.8% #1 of 5 Model card
BabyVision 81.2% #6 of 27 Official leaderboard
ZeroBench 18% #16 of 66 Official leaderboard
GeoBench 81% #14 of 48 Official leaderboard
Drone-Bench 82.3% #6 of 19 Official leaderboard
LongExtractionBench 70.7% #1 of 3 Official leaderboard
GDP.pdf 24% #14 of 39 Epoch AI
Math Kangaroo 2025 (MathArena) 81.6% #10 of 22 Official leaderboard
Furniture Assembly Benchmark 42.5% #16 of 35 Epoch AI
CharXiv 80.5% #32 of 67 Model card
VoxelBench 1,632 #32 of 56 Official leaderboard
ParseBench 62.3% #24 of 42 Official leaderboard
1H-VideoQA 71.3% #12 of 20 Official leaderboard
Blueprint-Bench 2 14.5% #28 of 35 Official leaderboard
Humanity's Sixth Sense 23.5% #26 of 29 Official leaderboard
ArtifactArena 929 #19 of 21 Official leaderboard
EnigmaEval 23.5% #5 of 5 Official leaderboard

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
LAB-Bench FigQA 80.4% #1 of 10 Model card
Human Pathogen Capabilities Test v2 (HPCT v2) 66.3% #8 of 71 Official leaderboard
Malicious use of Claude Code (Anthropic) 95.1% #2 of 16 Model card
KORA 65.4% #7 of 42 Official leaderboard
MetagenomicsBench 50% #5 of 26 Official leaderboard
Over-eager behavior on GUI computer use tasks (Anthropic) 9.40% #1 of 5 Model card
Gray Swan Agent Red Teaming (ART) benchmark 0.10% #3 of 14 Model card
Dictatorship Eval 86.4% #5 of 20 Official leaderboard
SpatialBench-Long 33.3% #7 of 27 Official leaderboard
EpiBench 25.8% #8 of 27 Official leaderboard
VariantBench 42.4% #8 of 27 Official leaderboard
SHADE-Arena 12% #5 of 16 Model card
MASK 95.4% #7 of 21 Model card
FORTRESS 18.2% #24 of 66 Official leaderboard
BioSecBench-Function 43.1% #10 of 27 Official leaderboard
TxBench-Preclinical-Pharmacology 57.7% #11 of 28 Official leaderboard
DNA Synthesis Screening Evasion 70% #2 of 5 Model card
UK AISI unprompted sabotage evaluation 0% #2 of 5 Model card
scBench-Long 21% #11 of 27 Official leaderboard
TxBench-Oligo-Discovery 37.5% #12 of 28 Official leaderboard
BioSecBench-Surveillance 46.9% #14 of 27 Official leaderboard
DistressBench 71.4% #22 of 42 Official leaderboard
DrugDiscoveryBench 46.8% #10 of 19 Official leaderboard
OncologyBench 16% #16 of 30 Official leaderboard
CyberGym 78.8% #18 of 33 Model card
TxBench-Antibody-Discovery 35.3% #17 of 28 Official leaderboard
ExploitGym 13.8% #11 of 18 Official leaderboard
Single-turn harmful request evaluations (Anthropic) 98% #11 of 18 Model card
Anthropic political even-handedness eval 96.7% #8 of 13 Model card
Adherence to its constitution (Anthropic) 0.99 #2 of 3 Model card
Protocols (Anthropic life sciences) 59.6% #2 of 3 Model card
Uncritically reporting flawed results (Anthropic) 9.40 #2 of 3 Model card
Virology Capabilities Test (VCT) 47% #21 of 28 Model card
UK AISI sabotage continuation evaluation 1.00% #3 of 4 Model card
CyberBench (Vals) 50.9% #20 of 26 Official leaderboard
BBQ (Bias Benchmark for QA) 72.1% #20 of 24 Model card
Single-turn benign request evaluations (Anthropic) 0.36% #15 of 18 Model card
Malicious computer use (Anthropic) 81.7% #11 of 13 Model card
Prompt injection robustness against adaptive attackers, coding (Anthropic) 7.03% #11 of 13 Model card
Prompt injection robustness against adaptive attackers, computer use (Anthropic) 7.14% #11 of 13 Model card
PCT (Polarized Contrastive Pairs) 53.8% #39 of 46 Official leaderboard
DeepsecBench 6.86 #25 of 28 Official leaderboard
Agentic BAIM-LLM Evaluation (ABLE) 0% #16 of 16 Official leaderboard
Prompt injection robustness against adaptive attackers, browser use (Anthropic) 31.5% #13 of 13 Model card
Binary Exploitation Benchmark (Anthropic, OSS-Fuzz based) 38.5% #6 of 6 Model card
Firefox 147 exploit evaluation (Anthropic) 8.80% #5 of 5 Model card
Minimal-LinuxBench (Anthropic) 4.70% #3 of 3 Model card
Prompt injection live bug bounty (Anthropic with Gray Swan) 0.40% #3 of 3 Model card
Lying about identity (Anthropic) 97% #2 of 2 Model card
Overconfidence: verifying command-line syntax (Anthropic) 4.51 #2 of 2 Model card
AAV capsid packaging prediction 0.80 #1 of 1 Model card
Code summary honesty (Anthropic) 3.70% #1 of 1 Model card
Lazy investigation on misleading codebases (Anthropic) 0% #1 of 1 Model card

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
SAGE (Vals) 54.8% #3 of 81 Official leaderboard
LMCA 57.5% #11 of 139 Epoch AI
Conceptual Reasoning Index 68.3 #12 of 149 Official leaderboard
ACCoRD 77.4 #19 of 150 Official leaderboard
Vals Multimodal Index 70.9% #5 of 33 Official leaderboard
CAIS Risk Index 38.1 #11 of 65 Official leaderboard
CAIS Text Capabilities Index 41.2 #17 of 66 Official leaderboard
CAIS Vision Capabilities Index 53.0 #25 of 53 Official leaderboard
Anthropic ECI (AECI) 155.5 #5 of 6 Model card

Anthropic's models over time

Anthropic's models in color, against every other model on the Epoch Capabilities Index, by release date.

50 75 100 125 150 175 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Claude Haiku 5.5 Claude Sonnet 5.5 Claude Sonnet 4.6 Claude Haiku 4.5 Claude 3.7 Sonnet Claude 3.5 Haiku Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024) 50 75 100 125 150 175 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Claude Haiku 5.5 Claude Opus 4.5

Its launch post

The benchmarks the lab chose to headline, with the scores it gave.

Its system card

Every result in the longer documents the lab published with it. 81 of them aren't in the launch post.

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