Claude Opus 4.6 vs Pony Alpha

Compare Claude Opus 4.6 by Anthropic against Pony Alpha by OpenRouter, in 78 community votes, claude opus 4.6 wins 62% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 1.0M vs 200K, tested across 46 shared challenges. Updated February 2026.

In 78 community votes, Claude Opus 4.6 wins 62% of head-to-head duels. Claude Opus 4.6 leads in Web Design, Reasoning, Conversation, while Pony Alpha leads in Image Generation. Based on blind community voting from the RIVAL open dataset of 78+ human preference judgments for this pair.