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Claude Opus 5.5 vs North Micro Vision Instruct

Claude Opus 5.5 leads the LLM Stats Score 59.7 to -5.1.

Anthropic · Cohere · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Claude Opus 5.5 leads the overall LLM Stats Score 59.7 to -5.1, ranking #1 overall.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Claude Opus 5.5

  • overall performance matters — it scores 59.7 and ranks #1 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Sep 2026

Choose North Micro Vision Instruct

  • you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Claude Opus 5.5
Anthropic
North Micro Vision Instruct
Cohere
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
59.7
#1
-5.1
#361
Reasoning
57.8
#1
-7.8
#361
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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Input price
$4.00 / M
— / M
Output price
$20.00 / M
— / M
Context window
1,000,000
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Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

3 shared
Index
Claude Opus 5.5
North Micro Vision Instruct
Math
42.5#5
-12.7#327
Vision
42.8#1
-5.0#204
Multimodal
42.5#1
-3.2#167
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

31 reported for Claude Opus 5.5 · 19 for North Micro Vision Instruct

No common benchmarks found

Claude Opus 5.5 and North Micro Vision Instructdon't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Claude Opus 5.5 specifies input context (1,000,000 tokens). Only Claude Opus 5.5 specifies output context (128,000 tokens).

Anthropic
Claude Opus 5.5
Input1,000,000 tokens
Output128,000 tokens
Cohere
North Micro Vision Instruct
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Wed Sep 23 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Both Claude Opus 5.5 and North Micro Vision Instruct support multimodal inputs.

They are both capable of processing various types of data, offering versatility in application.

Claude Opus 5.5

Text
Images
Audio
Video

North Micro Vision Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude Opus 5.5 is licensed under a proprietary license, while North Micro Vision Instruct uses Apache 2.0.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Claude Opus 5.5

Proprietary

Closed source

North Micro Vision Instruct

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude Opus 5.5 was released on 2026-09-22, while North Micro Vision Instruct was released on 2026-08-12.

Claude Opus 5.5 is 1 month newer than North Micro Vision Instruct.

Claude Opus 5.5

Sep 22, 2026

0 days ago

1mo newer
North Micro Vision Instruct

Aug 12, 2026

1 months ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Claude Opus 5.5 has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2026-06-01, while North Micro Vision Instruct's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Claude Opus 5.5's training data extends to 2026-06-01, but cannot make a direct comparison without North Micro Vision Instruct's cutoff date.

Claude Opus 5.5

Jun 2026

North Micro Vision Instruct

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Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

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FAQ

Common questions about Claude Opus 5.5 vs North Micro Vision Instruct.

Which is better, Claude Opus 5.5 or North Micro Vision Instruct?

Claude Opus 5.5 leads the LLM Stats Score 59.7 to -5.1. Claude Opus 5.5 is made by Anthropic and North Micro Vision Instruct is made by Cohere. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Claude Opus 5.5 compare to North Micro Vision Instruct in benchmarks?

Claude Opus 5.5 scores BenchCAD (with Python tool): 96.2%, Global-MMLU: 94.3%, SWE-bench Multilingual: 93.9%, MILU: 93.1%, ArXivMath: 91.2%. North Micro Vision Instruct scores DocVQA: 92.1%, ChartQA: 80.8%, OCRBench: 79.2%, AI2D: 77.5%, IFEval: 74.9%.

What are the context window sizes for Claude Opus 5.5 and North Micro Vision Instruct?

Claude Opus 5.5 supports 1.0M tokens and North Micro Vision Instruct supports an unknown number of tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Claude Opus 5.5 and North Micro Vision Instruct?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (59.7 vs -5.1), licensing (Proprietary vs Apache 2.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Claude Opus 5.5 and North Micro Vision Instruct?

Claude Opus 5.5 is developed by Anthropic and North Micro Vision Instruct is developed by Cohere.

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