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Claude Opus 5.5

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Model facts

Context window
1M
Max output
128K
Input / 1M tokens
$4
Output / 1M tokens
$20

Adaptive, always on · medium by default. Text and images in; text out. Reviewed 2026-09-25.

Official model documentation

Examples to explore

All 14 examples

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Web UI / Coding

Improving load times across a web app

An Anthropic-reported web-app task evaluates performance improvements alongside behavior preservation.

Anthropic · Source reviewed · not reproduced

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Agents / Coding

Clio’s six-repository agent workflow

Clio reports a long-running Opus 5.5 task spanning six repositories in Anthropic’s launch material.

Clio, via Anthropic · Source reviewed · not reproduced

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Agents / Research

Column’s self-verifying subagents

Column reports improved delegation and external-document checks during an Opus 5.5 coding workflow.

Column, via Anthropic · Source reviewed · not reproduced

API pricing

$4 input · $20 output · $0.2 cache read per million tokens.

Standard API rates. Batch input/output is 50% lower; fast mode is $8 / $40. Cache writes: $5 (5 min), $8 (1 hour) per million tokens.

Official pricing

Reported benchmarks

Anthropic launch benchmarks, September 22, 2026
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5
Terminal-Bench 4.0Opus 5.5: xhigh effort66.4%
FrontierCode v1.1Opus 5.5: max effort54.4%
CursorBench 4.0Opus 5.5: max effort57.8%
GDPval-AA v2.1Opus 5.5: max effort1846 Elo
AutomationBenchOpus 5.5: max effort40%
Humanity's Last ExamWith tools · Opus 5.5: max effort67.7%

Vendor-reported launch results, September 22, 2026. Opus 5.5 uses max effort except Terminal-Bench (xhigh). Other models' effort, harness and tool settings can differ; see the original methodology. These are not AI IDE List tests and are separate from Anthropic's medium-effort cost charts.

Benchmark source and methodology

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