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Models/Anthropic

Claude Opus 5.5

AnthropicReleased 22 Sep 2026ClosedFlagshipDate verified
200188–211Index score#1 of 229 models
4/ 8Core tests taken4 of 6 areas · plus 13 anchor tests
FrontierVersus the frontier at releaseset or matched the record
$4.0/ $20Price 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
no result
Mathsevidence
FrontierMath T1-3
91%
Codingevidence
SWE-bench Verified
no result
Terminal-Bench
no result
Agentsevidence
APEX-Agents
74%
Novel problemsevidence
ARC-AGI-2
93%
Long tasksno evidence yet
METR time horizon
no result

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

Released22 Sep 2026
Announcementanthropic.com ↗
Release entryClaude Opus 5.5
Scored asClaude Opus 5.5
Artificial Analysis index58 · max with fallback
Output speed90 tokens/s
Hugging Faceclosed weights

Anthropic releasesaround this one