whatmodel.sh / Claude 2.1

Claude 2.1 is a closed-weights language model from Anthropic, released November 2023. Licence: proprietary.

Catalogue identity notes

Comparison model from the Epoch AI internal-evaluation CSVs (Epoch release date 2023-11-21). API model claude-2.1. Anthropic model deprecations page: retired July 21, 2025.

44.9±0.8comparison only: no current run option verifiedfrom 9 benchmark results across 6 sources

$ how it compares

The LLMs ranked either side of Claude 2.1, out of 828 with a score, then more from Anthropic.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
529DeepSeek-Coder-V2 Lite Instruct (16B-A2.4B) DeepSeek45±1local~11GB2024-06
530GPT-4o Audio Preview (2024-10-01) OpenAI45±3comparison only2024-10
531Claude 2.1 Anthropic45±1comparison only2023-11
532Zephyr ORPO 141B-A35B v0.1 Hugging Face45±2local~56GB2024-04
533Phi-3-medium-4k-instruct Microsoft45±1local~9.8GB2024-05
more from Anthropic
2Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic87±1api $8.00/M2026-09
4Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropic85±1api $20.00/M2026-09
5Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic84±1api $4.00/M2026-09

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$ what it's good at

coding▁▁▁▃▅▇█▇▅▄▃▁ #366 of 524 * · 29% of its score · 1 test

Beats Solar Open 100B (102B-A12B), GLM-4.7-Flash, Qwen3 4B Instruct 2507 here, though they rank higher overall. Trails DeepSeek LLM 67B Chat, WizardLM 70B V1.0, Phi-4-mini 3.8B here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
HumanEval66.5% ✎▁█▄▅▇█·▄▇▅▄▄ beats 29/42easy · avg 78%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 29%sharp · at its level
chat & writing▁▁▁▃▅▄▆█▇▇▇▃ #358 of 463 · 47% of its score · 5 tests

Beats Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512, Gemma 4 E4B, OpenThinker3 7B here, though they rank higher overall. Trails LFM2 350M, Flan-T5 XXL, LFM2 700M here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
AlpacaEval 2 length-controlled25.3% ✎▁▂▂▃▆▆█▆▄▄▁▁ beats 64/122medium · avg 39%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 21%at its level
Arena-Hard (v0.1, GPT-4-1106 judge)22.8% ✎▂▁▁▅█▅▄▃▃▅▃▁ beats 17/60medium · avg 52%▇▇▇▇▇▇ 14%sharp · at its level
Polyrating rating (bias-aware re-fit of Chatbot Arena votes, mid-2024)1156.0 ✎▂▁▂▁▃▇█▆▇▄▂▂ beats 69/95avg 1201▇▇ 6.0%blunt
MT-Bench (GPT-4 single-answer grading, LMSYS runs)8.1800 MT-Bench score (1-10) ✎▆▂▂▆▆▄██▂▄▄▆ beats 23/28avg 8.819 MT-Bench score (1-10)▇▇ 5.3%sharp · noisy
AlpacaEval 1.0 win rate (vs text-davinci-003, GPT-4 judge)87.1% ✎▂▂·▆·▇▃▆█▆▄▂ beats 25/45very easy · avg 96%▇ 1.1%sharp · maxed out · noisy
math▁▂▃▅▇▅▅█▄▁▁▁ #344 of 462 * · 0.7% of its score · 1 test

Beats GPT-4 (0613), Athene-70B, Gemma 2 27B IT here, though they rank higher overall. Trails Gemma 7B (base), DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B, CodeGemma 7B (v1.0) here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
OTIS mock AIME 2024–20251.9% ✎▃▃▄▃▃▃▇▇█▃▂▅ beats 16/193very hard · avg 8.5%▇ 0.7%sharp · too hard for it · noisy
other tests2 not in a task · 23% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
EvoEval (overall)46.2% ✎▂▂▃▄▄█▁▄▅▃▁▃ beats 31/42medium · avg 55%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 19%at its level
GPQA Diamond33.0% ✎▁▁▁▁▃▄▆▄▅▇█▅ beats 23/208hard · avg 40%▇▇ 4.3%sharp

$ where to run it

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$ how the score was worked out · Top Leaderboard Ranking = Top… 47%, AlpacaEval 1.0 and 2.0 leader… 22%, Arena-Hard-Auto v0.1 leaderbo… 14% and 3 more

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

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