Claude Opus 4.1 vs SAM 3

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Claude Opus 4.1 vs SAM 3: Overview

Claude Opus 4.1

Claude 4.1 Opus, released by Anthropic in August 2025, is the upgraded flagship of the Claude 4 family, building on Opus 4 with stronger reasoning and agentic capabilities. Like its predecessor, it is multimodal and optimized for text, code, and tool use, with support for large context windows suited to multi-file codebases, technical workflows, and long-horizon problem solving.

On benchmarks, Opus 4.1 improves coding performance, reaching ~74.5% on SWE-Bench Verified compared to Opus 4’s ~72.5%. It demonstrates more precise debugging, refactoring, and orchestration of agentic tasks while maintaining similar safety and alignment safeguards. It is best suited for enterprise-scale software development, research automation, and advanced reasoning workflows where reliability and depth of analysis are critical.

SAM 3

Released on November 19th, 2025, Segment Anything 3 (SAM 3) is a zero-shot image segmentation model that “detects, segments, and tracks objects in images and videos based on concept prompts.” This model was developed by Meta as the third model in the Segment Anything series.

Unlike its previous SAM models (Segment Anything and Segment Anything 2), you can provide SAM 3 with the prompt “shipping container” and it will generate precise segmentation masks for all shipping containers in an image. SAM 3 generates segmentation masks that correspond to the location of the objects found with a text prompt.

Claude Opus 4.1 vs SAM 3 Comparison Table

PropertyClaude Opus 4.1SAM 3
OrganizationAnthropicMeta
Categoryclosedclosed
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateAug 2025Nov 2025
Context Window200K
Parameters
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$15.00
Output $/1M$75.00
Vision Tasks
Object DetectionDemoDemo
CaptioningDemo
ClassificationDemo
Instance Segmentation
OCRDemo
Promptable Concept SegmentationDemo
Video Object Tracking
Vision Language
Visual Question AnsweringDemo
Zero Shot Segmentation
Model Features
Foundation Vision
LLMs with Vision Capabilities
Multimodal Vision
Zero-shot Detection
Vision Evalspass/fail results · 67 prompts
Score key:≥75%40–74%<40%
Overall Score
59.7%
Avg Response Time7.09s
Median input tokensincl. image tokens2.0K
Median output tokens140
Est. cost / taskon this benchmark$0.040
Defect Detection
73.3%(11/15)
Document Understanding
88.9%(8/9)
Object Counting
0%(0/10)
Object Understanding
64.3%(9/14)
Spatial Understanding
63.2%(12/19)

Output tokens (incl. reasoning) and est. cost / task are measured on this benchmark from a single low-temperature run, and shown only for models whose run covered at least 90% of prompts. Methodology