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Claude Opus 5.5

anthropic/claude-opus-5.5
  • Anthropic
  • Family · Claude Opus 5
  • Released 22 Sep 2026
  • Text · Image · File → Text
  • Reasoning · adjustable
  • Tools · JSON · Vision
Spec & list price
Context1M
Max output128K
Input / 1M$4.00
Output / 1M$20.005× input
Scores · standing
Intelligence58.4#2/489
LiveBench85.1#3/32
Usage
Tokens / day655.3B▼ 21% 7d
Usage rank#8
Requests / day3.7M
Tool calls / req0.66
Per request · 30 days
Avg input123.0K8.3× median
Avg output1.2K1.7× median
Cache hit90%1.3× median
Reasoning share51%about median
Tool-call failures0.5%0.3× median

Consumption

666.7B1.3T2.0T3 Oct17 Oct1 Nov
Peak 1.5T 23 OctLow 187.7B 26 SepRank today #8

News & trends

567 mentions this week ▲ 688%this model · videos, posts, articles · 30 days
Trending · 14 days
News

Benchmarks

bar = share of the top score · Benchmark data: Artificial Analysis
Humanity's Last Exam#1 of 465
61.4%
SciCode#1 of 160
66.9%
Intelligence index#2 of 489
58.4
Long-context reasoning#6 of 393
84.7%
Terminal-Bench 4.0#4 of 152
59.6%
Speed · median across 10 providers, latest day
Output speed#125/33481 tok/s1.2× faster than median
Fastest provider222 tok/sbest of 10 providers
First token#2923.02 s2.9× longer than median
First answer token#101455 sthinking included

#2 cheapest of 3 with a similar score

Value
Intelligence Index
505254565860$2$5$10$20Claude Opus 5.5
Blended price per 1M tokens (log)
Family progress
Intelligence Index
505254565860AugSepClaude Opus 5.5
  • Family releases58.4
LiveBench suites
Browser88.4
Coding96.3
Data Analysis80.3
Design86.9
Long Agentic72.8
Reasoning92.2
Research85.0

▲ Strongest: Coding, Reasoning. ▼ Weakest: Long Agentic (73).

Technical details

Reasoning
on · high
Tokenizer
Claude
Moderation
moderated
Reasoning effort
  • max
  • xhigh
  • high · default
  • medium
  • low
Request parameters 11
  • tools
  • tool_choice
  • response_format
  • structured_outputs
  • reasoning
  • reasoning_effort
  • include_reasoning
  • max_tokens
  • max_completion_tokens
  • stop
+1 more
  • verbosity

When to use

Best for

  • Long autonomous agent runs
  • Coding agents on large codebases
  • Expert science and exam-style reasoning
  • Design and front-end generation
  • Research agents over large context

Think twice for

  • High-volume simple chat (cheaper options exist)
  • Browser automation (its weakest suite)
  • Self-hosting (closed weights)
  • Image generation

Research papers

Same family

Claude Opus 5

Alternatives

other vendors · similar capability

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