# Claude Opus 4.6Thinking · 16384 tokens

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## Benchmarks

| Benchmark | Score | ± | Rank |  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Short Story Writing — Pairwise Comparison](https://benchize.com/benchmarks/lechmazur-short-story%3Apairwise.md) | 1.13 | 95% CI 0.97–1.29 | 18 / 50 |  |
| ### Original source values \| Metric \| Value \| Unit \| Scope \| Direction \| \| --- \| --- \| --- \| --- \| --- \| \| `thurstone_rating` \| 1.1279392312470806 \| index \| pooled_observed_panel \| Higher is better \| \| `win_probability` \| 0.6651502440805583 \| score_fraction \| comparison_pool \| Higher is better \| ### Configuration benchmarkScope data/writing_gemini_argon_20261013 reasoningBudget 16384 thinkingEnabled true ### Reported statistics Uncertainty 95% confidence interval: 0.97–1.29 bootstrapSamples 300 confidenceInterval95 ["0.9683533210425165","1.2889868478225666"] sourceRank 18 ### Source [Original source](https://api.github.com/repos/lechmazur/writing/contents/data/writing_gemini_argon_20261013/ratings.csv?ref=8ba548d1cffefa5c472d3832e05f64e119a88fa4) Source lechmazur short story Original model label Claude Opus 4.6 Thinking 16K Source version 8ba548d1cffefa5c472d3832e05f64e119a88fa4 Observed 2026-10-21T16:34:21.130Z Evidence SHA-256 `c36baebed9f302ff7ad8fe97907d72e1757a015a39b6a3b23437597cf8e3bff6` Source locator `/rows/17` |  |  |  |  |

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