Claude Opus 4 (20250514)
AnthropicProprietary
Claude Opus 4 (20250514) is a vision-language model from Anthropic. It ranks 107 of 167 on LMArena’s overall vision board with 1176±13 from 2,172 votes. Its best category is Homework (#89 of 118). License: Proprietary.
Key figures
- Developer
- Anthropic
- License
- Proprietary
- First seen (our snapshots)
- 2026-10-26
No data: Captioning, Entity recognition, Creative writing, Humor, Chinese.
Who it suits
- Overall #107 of 167: lower half; consider it mainly for cost or deployment reasons.
- Strongest category: Homework (#89 of 118).
- Proprietary; used through Anthropic’s apps or API.
Neighbours on the overall board
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License | Δ vs this model |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 104 |  Hunyuan Large Vision Tencent | 1180 | 1,274 | Proprietary | +4 |
| 105 | Hunyuan Vision 1.5 Thinking Tencent | 1180 | 2,424 | Proprietary | +4 |
| 106 | SStep-3 StepFun | 1176 | 3,193 | Apache 2.0 | +0 |
| 107 | Claude Opus 4 (20250514) Anthropic | 1176 | 2,172 | Proprietary | |
| 108 | Claude Sonnet 4 (20250514) Anthropic | 1175 | 1,806 | Proprietary | -1 |
| 109 |  Mistral Medium 3.1 (2508) Mistral | 1172 | 41,611 | Proprietary | -4 |
| 110 | Claude 3.7 Sonnet (Thinking 32K, 20250219) Anthropic | 1169 | 1,436 | Proprietary | -7 |
Alternatives · More from Anthropic
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Fable 5 (High) Anthropic | 1325 | 14,714 | Proprietary |
| 2 | Claude Opus 5.5 (High) Anthropic | 1321 | 3,035 | Proprietary |
| 3 | Claude Opus 5 (High) Anthropic | 1320 | 17,743 | Proprietary |
| 4 | Claude Fable 5.1 (Max) Anthropic | 1319 | 5,026 | Proprietary |
| 5 | Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic | 1317 | 23,139 | Proprietary |
Alternatives · Top open-weight models
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 |  GLM-5.3-Flash Z.ai | 1294 | 16,254 | MIT |
| 34 |  Kimi K2.6 Moonshot AI | 1282 | 16,368 | Modified MIT |
| 38 |  DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-20260910 (Max) DeepSeek | 1278 | 4,100 | MIT |
| 39 |  Gemma 4 31B Google | 1276 | 40,219 | Apache 2.0 |
| 44 |  Qwen3.8-27B Alibaba | 1269 | 7,614 | Apache 2.0 |
How to read these scores
- If two scores differ by less than their ± intervals, the models are statistically close.
- Each category board is computed independently; do not compare scores across categories.
- Models with few votes move more; ranks of new entries may change.
FAQ
Where does Claude Opus 4 (20250514) rank among vision models?
Overall rank 107 (1176); OCR rank 103 (1179); Diagrams rank 106 (1177); Homework rank 89 (1228); English rank 107 (1186) (LMArena, data as of Oct 26, 2026).
How good is Claude Opus 4 (20250514) at OCR?
Claude Opus 4 (20250514) ranks 103 of 123 on LMArena’s OCR board with 1179 (1,331 votes).
Is Claude Opus 4 (20250514) open-weight?
No. LMArena lists it as Proprietary; it is available through Anthropic’s apps or API.
How far is Claude Opus 4 (20250514) from #1?
#1 overall is Claude Fable 5 (High) (1325); Claude Opus 4 (20250514) has 1176, 149 points behind.
Sources
LMArena data published Oct 19, 2026.
Synced here Oct 26, 2026.
Price, context length and release date have no reliable public data here and are not shown; all figures come from snapshots, blanks are –.