Pairwise benchmark snapshot · Aug 16, 2026

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Doubao Lite 1.5 benchmark

Name: Claude Opus 4.6 vs Doubao Lite 1.5 AI benchmark comparison
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This page compares Claude Opus 4.6 (Anthropic) and Doubao Lite 1.5 (ByteDance) using the latest snapshots we have as of Aug 16, 2026. On preference Elo, Claude Opus 4.6 is ahead by 214 points (1,574 vs 1,360; seed-bootstrap (Aug 1, 2026)). On SWE-bench coding, Claude Opus 4.6 resolves 75.9% versus 46% (seed-bootstrap (Aug 1, 2026)). Doubao Lite 1.5 streams faster (180 tok/s) while Doubao Lite 1.5 is the cheaper output token ($0.1/1M). Claude Opus 4.6 has the larger context window (1M tokens). Every cell below is a dated snapshot from a named public source — we do not invent missing scores, and we do not run SWE-bench ourselves.

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Anthropic

Claude Opus 4.6

Follow-on Opus release. Slightly behind 4.5 on official SWE-bench bash-only in the last published sweep; stronger long-horizon agent traces.

Elo 1,574$25/1M out

ByteDance

Doubao Lite 1.5

ByteDance high-speed lightweight model priced at sub-cent levels.

Elo 1,360$0.1/1M out

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Category wins across intelligence, speed, and pricing efficiency.

Claude Opus 4.6 (6)vsDoubao Lite 1.5 (4)

Claude Opus 4.6: 6W (60%)Overall: Claude Opus 4.6Doubao Lite 1.5: 4W (40%)

← Claude Opus 4.6Doubao Lite 1.5 →

Claude Opus 4.6 (5/5)

Intelligence & Reasoning

Preference Elo, Coding proficiency, SWE-bench & LiveBench accuracy

Preference Elo

1,574vs1,360

Coding Elo

1,570vs1,320

SWE-bench

75.9%vs46%

LiveBench

72%vs54%

GPQA Diamond

84.8%vs64.2%

Claude Opus 4.6: 5WDoubao Lite 1.5: 0W

Doubao Lite 1.5 (2/2)

Speed & Latency

Generation throughput and time to first token responsiveness

Output speed

64 tok/svs180 tok/s

Time to first token

360 msvs110 ms

Claude Opus 4.6: 0WDoubao Lite 1.5: 2W

Doubao Lite 1.5 (2/3)

Pricing & Capacity

Cost per million tokens and max context window length

Output price

$25/1Mvs$0.1/1M

Input price

$5/1Mvs$0.04/1M

Context window

1Mvs33k

Claude Opus 4.6: 1WDoubao Lite 1.5: 2W

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Dimensional AdvantageClaude Opus 4.6 4/6

Preference Elo

Claude Opus 4.6

214 pts advantage

Throughput Speed

Doubao Lite 1.5

116 tok/s faster

Price Efficiency

Doubao Lite 1.5

$24.90/1M cheaper

Full Benchmark Score Matrix

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Elo

High is better

+16%1,574

EloHigh is better

1,360

Code Elo

High is better

+19%1,570

Code EloHigh is better

1,320

LiveBench

High is better

+33%72%

LiveBenchHigh is better

54%

SWE-bench

High is better

+65%75.9%

SWE-benchHigh is better

46%

GPQA

High is better

+32%84.8%

GPQAHigh is better

64.2%

TTFT

Low is better

360 ms

TTFTLow is better

110 ms+227%

Speed

High is better

64 tok/s

SpeedHigh is better

180 tok/s+181%

In $

Low is better

$5/1M

In $Low is better

$0.04/1M+12400%

Out $

Low is better

$25/1M

Out $Low is better

$0.1/1M+24900%

Context

High is better

+2952%1M

ContextHigh is better

33k

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Simulate monthly production API costs based on published $/1M tokens.

Save up to 99% with Doubao Lite 1.5

Monthly Volume50M tokens/mo

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Token Ratio (In vs Out)70% In / 30% Out

RAG / Search (10% out)Coding / Chat (50% out)

Claude Opus 4.6$550.00 / mo

In: $175.00Out: $375.00

Doubao Lite 1.5$2.90 / mo

In: $1.40Out: $1.50

Estimated Cost Delta

Doubao Lite 1.5 is estimated to save $547.10/month ($6,565/year).

Based on 50M tokens (30% gen)

Key Selection Recommendations

1
Claude Opus 4.6:Pick Claude Opus 4.6 when repo-level coding accuracy is the constraint.
2
Doubao Lite 1.5:Pick Doubao Lite 1.5 when you are optimizing output cost.
3
Doubao Lite 1.5:Pick Doubao Lite 1.5 when time-to-first-token matters more than peak Elo.

Recommended Workload Routing

Repo / coding agentsClaude Opus 4.6

Higher SWE-bench (75.9%).

High-volume chatDoubao Lite 1.5

Lower output list price ($0.1/1M).

Voice / low-latency UIDoubao Lite 1.5

Lower TTFT (110 ms).

Long-document RAGClaude Opus 4.6

Larger window (1M).

Screenshots / visionClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6 is the side marked multimodal in the catalog.

Target Workload	Recommended Pick	Evaluation Rationale
Repo / coding agents	Claude Opus 4.6	Higher SWE-bench (75.9%).
High-volume chat	Doubao Lite 1.5	Lower output list price ($0.1/1M).
Voice / low-latency UI	Doubao Lite 1.5	Lower TTFT (110 ms).
Long-document RAG	Claude Opus 4.6	Larger window (1M).
Screenshots / vision	Claude Opus 4.6	Claude Opus 4.6 is the side marked multimodal in the catalog.

Related Editorial Dispatches & Benchmark Notes

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launchMay 10, 2026

Claude Opus 4.6: the May follow-on that still shows up in old bookmarks

Slightly behind 4.5 on one official SWE-bench sweep; stronger long-horizon traces. We keep the row for old vs URLs.

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Anthropic

Claude Opus 4.6

Elo 1,574

LiveBench72%

SWE-bench75.9%

Speed64 tok/s

Output cost$25/1M

ByteDance

Doubao Lite 1.5

Elo 1,360

LiveBench54%

SWE-bench46%

Speed180 tok/s

Output cost$0.1/1M

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better overall, Claude Opus 4.6 or Doubao Lite 1.5?: Claude Opus 4.6 has the higher preference Elo in our latest snapshot (1,574). “Better” still depends on coding, price, and latency — see the table.
Which is better at coding, Claude Opus 4.6 or Doubao Lite 1.5?: Claude Opus 4.6 leads SWE-bench at 75.9% vs 46%. SWE-bench is one harness, not your repo.
Which is cheaper to run in production?: Doubao Lite 1.5 output tokens are $0.1/1M versus $25/1M. Input prices and retry rates still move the real bill.
Which is faster, Claude Opus 4.6 or Doubao Lite 1.5?: Doubao Lite 1.5 has the lower time-to-first-token (110 ms vs 360 ms). Tokens/sec is a separate column if you care about long completions.
Which has the larger context window?: Claude Opus 4.6 accepts 1M tokens versus 33k.
Can I self-host either model?: Neither model is marked open-weights here. You are comparing hosted APIs.
Are these scores from CompareLLM’s own evals?: No. V1 aggregates public leaderboards (and optional first-party latency pings). Each cell names its source and date. Read /methodology.
What does preference Elo mean on this page?: Preference Elo is a crowd vote from LMArena / Arena. People see two hidden answers and pick the one they like more. The model that wins more often gets a higher Elo. That means people preferred it — not that it passed a school test. It is not SWE-bench, not accuracy, and not a number we invent. Claude Opus 4.6 and Doubao Lite 1.5 Elo cells are dated snapshots from the named source — we do not compute Arena ourselves.

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Claude Opus 4.6 vs Doubao Lite 1.5 benchmark

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Category wins across intelligence, speed, and pricing efficiency.

Claude Opus 4.6 (6)vsDoubao Lite 1.5 (4)

Claude Opus 4.6: 6W (60%)Overall: Claude Opus 4.6Doubao Lite 1.5: 4W (40%)

← Claude Opus 4.6Doubao Lite 1.5 →

Claude Opus 4.6 (5/5)

Intelligence & Reasoning

Preference Elo, Coding proficiency, SWE-bench & LiveBench accuracy

Preference Elo

1,574vs1,360

Coding Elo

1,570vs1,320

SWE-bench

75.9%vs46%

LiveBench

72%vs54%

GPQA Diamond

84.8%vs64.2%

Claude Opus 4.6: 5WDoubao Lite 1.5: 0W

Doubao Lite 1.5 (2/2)

Speed & Latency

Generation throughput and time to first token responsiveness

Output speed

64 tok/svs180 tok/s

Time to first token

360 msvs110 ms

Claude Opus 4.6: 0WDoubao Lite 1.5: 2W

Doubao Lite 1.5 (2/3)

Pricing & Capacity

Cost per million tokens and max context window length

Output price

$25/1Mvs$0.1/1M

Input price

$5/1Mvs$0.04/1M

Context window

1Mvs33k

Claude Opus 4.6: 1WDoubao Lite 1.5: 2W

Recommended Workload Routing

Repo / coding agentsClaude Opus 4.6

Higher SWE-bench (75.9%).

High-volume chatDoubao Lite 1.5

Lower output list price ($0.1/1M).

Voice / low-latency UIDoubao Lite 1.5

Lower TTFT (110 ms).

Long-document RAGClaude Opus 4.6

Larger window (1M).

Screenshots / visionClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6 is the side marked multimodal in the catalog.

Target Workload	Recommended Pick	Evaluation Rationale
Repo / coding agents	Claude Opus 4.6	Higher SWE-bench (75.9%).
High-volume chat	Doubao Lite 1.5	Lower output list price ($0.1/1M).
Voice / low-latency UI	Doubao Lite 1.5	Lower TTFT (110 ms).
Long-document RAG	Claude Opus 4.6	Larger window (1M).
Screenshots / vision	Claude Opus 4.6	Claude Opus 4.6 is the side marked multimodal in the catalog.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better overall, Claude Opus 4.6 or Doubao Lite 1.5?

Claude Opus 4.6 has the higher preference Elo in our latest snapshot (1,574). “Better” still depends on coding, price, and latency — see the table.

Which is better at coding, Claude Opus 4.6 or Doubao Lite 1.5?

Claude Opus 4.6 leads SWE-bench at 75.9% vs 46%. SWE-bench is one harness, not your repo.

Which is cheaper to run in production?

Doubao Lite 1.5 output tokens are $0.1/1M versus $25/1M. Input prices and retry rates still move the real bill.

Which is faster, Claude Opus 4.6 or Doubao Lite 1.5?

Doubao Lite 1.5 has the lower time-to-first-token (110 ms vs 360 ms). Tokens/sec is a separate column if you care about long completions.

Which has the larger context window?

Claude Opus 4.6 accepts 1M tokens versus 33k.

Can I self-host either model?

Neither model is marked open-weights here. You are comparing hosted APIs.

Are these scores from CompareLLM’s own evals?

No. V1 aggregates public leaderboards (and optional first-party latency pings). Each cell names its source and date. Read /methodology.

What does preference Elo mean on this page?

Preference Elo is a crowd vote from LMArena / Arena. People see two hidden answers and pick the one they like more. The model that wins more often gets a higher Elo. That means people preferred it — not that it passed a school test. It is not SWE-bench, not accuracy, and not a number we invent. Claude Opus 4.6 and Doubao Lite 1.5 Elo cells are dated snapshots from the named source — we do not compute Arena ourselves.

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