Claude Opus 4.5 Vision on HellaSwag: score, rank and what it means
Claude Opus 4.5 Vision scores 91.4 on HellaSwag, placing it #49 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 81.4 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.1.
Score distribution
The chart shows the top 10 models on HellaSwag, with Claude Opus 4.5 Vision highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.
Top 10 leaderboard
| # | Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-5.2 Max | OpenAI | 1000000 | $21.39 | 89.2 |
| 2 | GPT-5.2 Turbo | OpenAI | 1000000 | $20.73 | 87.4 |
| 3 | GPT-5.2 Pro | OpenAI | 2000000 | $21.32 | 89.6 |
| 4 | Claude Opus 4.5 Pro | Anthropic | 200000 | $20.98 | 89.1 |
| 5 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning | Anthropic | 400000 | $19.48 | 87.7 |
| 6 | Grok 4 Reasoning | xAI | 2000000 | $19.67 | 87.8 |
| 7 | GPT-5.2 Vision | OpenAI | 1000000 | $19.03 | 87.4 |
| 8 | Gemini 3 Pro Turbo | Google DeepMind | 400000 | $19.62 | 86.4 |
| 9 | GPT-5.1 Reasoning | OpenAI | 400000 | $20.27 | 88.3 |
| 10 | o4 Pro | OpenAI | 1000000 | $19.37 | 87.3 |
What this score means
On HellaSwag, Claude Opus 4.5 Vision sits at #49 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Max, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 4.7 points. The median model in this index scores 83.6, which puts Claude Opus 4.5 Vision above the midpoint.
Anthropic models average 89.3 on this benchmark. Claude Opus 4.5 Vision is 2.1 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Anthropic model.
Among frontier models, the average is 92.3. Claude Opus 4.5 Vision is 0.9 points below that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.
Read a 91.4 as a relative signal, not an absolute guarantee. Benchmark scores depend on prompt format, evaluation harness and contamination controls. Use this page to narrow the shortlist, then test the model on your own data.
Price context
At $17.70 per million input tokens, Claude Opus 4.5 Vision is above the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on HellaSwag. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.
| Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| o4 Max | OpenAI | 2000000 | $19.51 | 86.2 |
| Kimi K2 Chat | Moonshot AI | 400000 | $5.74 | 82.1 |
| Gemini 3 Flash Vision | Google DeepMind | 400000 | $15.06 | 81.9 |
| Qwen3-Max Reasoning | Alibaba Cloud | 2000000 | $18.12 | 85.9 |
| Claude Opus 4.5 Vision | Anthropic | 200000 | $17.70 | 85.9 |
| Grok 3 | xAI | 128000 | $15.84 | 82.8 |
| Qwen3-Max Max | Alibaba Cloud | 400000 | $18.53 | 85.9 |
Other benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.5 Vision
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 86.9 | 36 | 94th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 80.7 | 48 | 92th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 77.7 | 18 | 97th | |
| HumanEval | 88.2 | 69 | 89th | |
| MATH-500 | 91.9 | 22 | 96th | |
| AIME 2025 | 85.4 | 32 | 95th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 80.1 | 43 | 93th | |
| IFEval | 92.6 | 26 | 96th | |
| TruthfulQA | 86.9 | 38 | 94th | |
| MMMU | 83.2 | 19 | 97th | |
| Arena Elo | 1452.2 | 66 | 89th |
FAQ
What score does Claude Opus 4.5 Vision get on HellaSwag?
Claude Opus 4.5 Vision scores 91.4 on HellaSwag in this index. The benchmark average is 81.4 and the top score is 96.1.
How does Claude Opus 4.5 Vision rank on HellaSwag?
It ranks #49 of 600 models, in the 92nd percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.1.
Is Claude Opus 4.5 Vision good at HellaSwag?
Yes, relative to the index: it is above the median and inside the top half of scores. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.
How is the HellaSwag score calculated?
HellaSwag is a commonsense benchmark. Scores in this index are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale (or Elo for Arena), derived from capability tier and benchmark difficulty. They are not official leaderboard results.
What does Claude Opus 4.5 Vision cost?
Claude Opus 4.5 Vision costs $17.70 per million input tokens and $74.84 per million output tokens.