Claude
Claude

Claude Opus 4.6

Model ID:claude-opus-4-6
2026-02-04Proprietary Model
Claude ProClaude Max (5x)Claude Max (20x)|API
Overall🥉 No.3
Popularity🥇 No.1

Opus 4.6 is Anthropic’s strongest model for coding and long-running professional tasks. It is built for agents that operate across entire workflows rather than single prompts, making it especially effective for large codebases, complex refactors, and multi-step debugging that unfolds over time. The model shows deeper contextual understanding, stronger problem decomposition, and greater reliability on hard engineering tasks than prior generations. Beyond coding, Opus 4.6 excels at sustained knowledge work. It produces near-production-ready documents, plans, and analyses in a single pass, and maintains coherence across very long outputs and extended sessions. This makes it a strong default for tasks that require persistence, judgment, and follow-through, such as technical design, migration planning, and end-to-end project execution.

Knowledge Cutoff
2025-09-01

The date this AI finished learning. It may not know about things that happened after this date.

Input → Output Format

The types of content this AI can receive, and what it can produce in return.

Context Memory
1MIN128KOUT

The maximum amount of text the AI can read and process in a single request. A larger number means it can handle longer documents or conversations.

Cost/1M Words
$5IN$25OUT

The cost of using this AI directly in your own application. Shown in USD per 1 million units of text (tokens).

AI Performance Evaluation

Arena Overall Score
1504
±6
As of 2026-04-02
Overall Rank
🥇 No.1
14,327 Votes
Arena by Ability
Hard Prompts
1537±7🥇 No.1
Expert Knowledge
1537±20🥈 No.2
Instruction Following
1511±10🥇 No.1
Conversation Memory
1517±13🥇 No.1
Creative
1493±13🥇 No.1
Coding
1557±11🥇 No.1
Math
1514±20🥈 No.2
Arena by Occupation
Creative Writing
1497±11🥇 No.1
Social Sciences
1514±13🥈 No.2
Media
1490±12🥇 No.1
Business
1502±12🥈 No.2
Healthcare
1520±20No.4
Legal
1514±19🥈 No.2
Software
1542±9🥇 No.1
Mathematics
1521±24🥈 No.2
Reasoning Ability
AA Intelligence Index
53%↑14%
GPQA Diamond
90%↑8%
HLE
37%↑20%
Coding Ability
AA Coding Index
48%↑12%
SciCode
52%↑10%
TerminalBench
46%↑12%
Instruction Following
IFBench
53%↓4%
환각률 (HHEM)
12%↑1%
사실 일관성 (HHEM)
88%↓1%
Long Context
AA-LCR
71%↑7%
Agentic AI Ability
TAU2
92%↑21%
Speed
Standard Mode
45tok/sec↓33
First Output 1.75s
Artificial Analysis
Reasoning Mode
49tok/sec↓24
First Output 10.52s
Artificial Analysis