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Models/Anthropic

Claude Opus 4.6

AnthropicReleased 5 Feb 2026ClosedFlagshipDate verified
167155–178Index score#26 of 229 models
8/ 8Core tests taken6 of 6 areas · plus 19 anchor tests
−3Versus the frontier at releasebest then: GPT-5.3-CodexReplaced by Claude Opus 4.7
$5.0/ $25Price per million tokensinput / output, list price
1MContext windowtokens it reads at once

Where it sitson the frontier

Among the first models to reach this score.

Test resultsby area · tick = best by any model

Reasoning & knowledgeevidence
GPQA Diamond
91%
Humanity's Last Exam
34%
Mathsevidence
FrontierMath T1-3
66%
Codingevidence
SWE-bench Verified
79%
Terminal-Bench
80%
Agentsevidence
APEX-Agents
46%
Novel problemsevidence
ARC-AGI-2
69%
Long tasksevidence
METR time horizon
12 h

Independent results from the Epoch AI benchmarking hub, best reasoning setting. The core tests are shown here; anchor tests also inform the score and can be shown above.

What others sayrank on each leaderboard

Further left is better. Leaderboards measure different things: LMArena is people voting blind between two answers, the others are test scores. Click any row for the source.

Best attop three among current models

Where this model places in the top three of today's models, on category leaderboards and on our core tests.

Where to use itprices checked 1 Oct 2026

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Facts and sources

Released5 Feb 2026
Announcementanthropic.com ↗
Release entryClaude Opus 4.6
Scored asClaude Opus 4.6
Artificial Analysis index–
Output speed–
Hugging Faceclosed weights

Anthropic releasesaround this one