BenchLeader

Agnes 3.0 Flash vs Claude Opus 4.6

Verdict
  • Claude Opus 4.6 leads on quality: 63.7 vs 62.3.
  • Agnes 3.0 Flash is stronger in agents & tools, composite, knowledge, long context, reasoning.
  • Claude Opus 4.6 is stronger in coding, human preference, maths, multimodal.
  • Agnes 3.0 Flash is 133× cheaper ($0.075 vs $10.00 per 1M blended).
MetricAgnes 3.0 FlashClaude Opus 4.6
BenchLeader Index62.363.7
Agents & tools score76.867.8
Composite score74.0
Knowledge score59.1
Long context score67.0
Reasoning score71.162.6
Coding score62.3
Human preference score64.7
Maths score68.7
Multimodal score67.0
Blended price $/M$0.075$10.00
Output speed34 tok/s
Time to first answer1.7 s
Context window1M1M
GPQA Diamond90.5%
OTIS Mock AIME94.4%
SWE-bench Verified (Epoch)78.7%
Humanity's Last Exam19.0%
Terminal-Bench79.8%
SimpleBench67.6%
Cybench93.0%
Remote Labor Index4.2%
WeirdML77.9%
APEX-Agents32.4%
FrontierCode26.6%
GSO-Bench33.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index155.3
LMArena Text1497
LMArena Hard Prompts1527
LMArena Coding1546
LMArena WebDev1537
LMArena Vision1312
AA Intelligence Index35.5
AA-LCR81.0%
AA-Omniscience-10.6
GPQA Diamond (AA)92.4%
Humanity's Last Exam (AA)38.5%
SciCode (AA)51.6%
HiL-Bench38.3%
EQ-Bench 41223
Kagi LLM Benchmark72.4%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.6%
SWE-bench Verified (any scaffold)75.6%
CritPt15.1%
GDPval (AA)53.7%
τ²-Bench Banking (AA)47.6%
MedCode48.2%
MedScribe86.7%
Vibe Code Bench v1.157.6%
SWE Atlas: Codebase QnA33.3%
SWE Atlas: Refactoring35.6%
SWE Atlas: Test Writing36.7%
LMArena Maths1507
LMArena Creative Writing1479
LMArena Instruction Following1500
LMArena Multi-turn1511
LMArena Longer Queries1517
LMArena Document1494
Chess Puzzles17.0%
Mystery Game Puzzles15.0%
CL-bench20.7%
CL-bench Life13.6%
METR Time Horizons78.9%
ForecastBench60.0%
GBAEval44.1%
ALE-Bench996.5
Vending-Bench 28017.6

Data as of 2026-09-19. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.

Agnes 3.0 Flash vs Claude Opus 4.6: questions

Is Agnes 3.0 Flash better than Claude Opus 4.6?
Claude Opus 4.6 leads on quality: 63.7 vs 62.3. The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; Claude Opus 4.6 is ahead overall as of 2026-09-19, but check the category scores for your use.
Is Agnes 3.0 Flash better than Claude Opus 4.6 for agentic tasks?
Agnes 3.0 Flash scores higher in agentic tasks (77 vs 68 on the category index, where 50 is average).
Which is cheaper, Agnes 3.0 Flash or Claude Opus 4.6?
Agnes 3.0 Flash is cheaper: $0.075 against $10.00 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token.
Which has the larger context window?
Both accept 1M tokens of context.