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Claude Opus 4

Anthropic · released May 22, 2025

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Claude Opus 4 is benchmarked as the world’s best coding model, at time of release, bringing sustained performance on complex, long-running tasks and agent workflows. It sets new benchmarks in...

Specification

Context window
200K
Max output
32K
Knowledge cutoff
Jan 31, 2025
Parameters
Undisclosed
Licence
Proprietary
Serving providers
1
Moderated
No
Uptime
100.0%

Intelligence

26.0

69th percentile

Coding

Coding Index

Agentic

Agentic Index

Output speed

22 t/s

Median across providers

Latency

2.22s

Time to first token

Cost per task

$6.75

Estimated

Benchmarks

Where the score comes from

The Intelligence Index is a composite. These are the underlying evaluations this model was actually measured on.

Evaluation scores

Percentage correct · higher is better

  • MMLU-Pro
    86.0%
  • GPQA Diamond
    70.1%
  • LiveCodeBench
    54.2%
  • IFBench
    43.3%
  • SciCode
    40.9%
  • AA-LCR (long context)
    40.0%
  • AIME 2025
    36.3%
  • Humanity's Last Exam
    6.2%

An evaluation missing from this list was not run for this model — it is not a zero.

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EvaluationScore
MMLU-Pro86.0%
GPQA Diamond70.1%
LiveCodeBench54.2%
IFBench43.3%
SciCode40.9%
AA-LCR (long context)40.0%
AIME 202536.3%
Humanity's Last Exam6.2%

Against its peers

Intelligence Index · this model highlighted, nearest peers in grey

Peers are the models sitting closest on the Intelligence Index — the set you would realistically choose between.

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ModelIntelligence
o4 Mini High26.1
o4 Mini26.1
Claude Opus 426.0
Claude Sonnet 426.0
Gemini 2.5 Pro25.9
GPT-5 Mini25.8
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite25.6
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview25.6

Percentile among all indexed models

Intelligence69th
Mathematics36th
Arena Elo61th

Pricing

What it costs to run

List prices per million tokens, plus what one representative task works out to.

List price

Input / 1M tokens
$15
Output / 1M tokens
$75
Cached input / 1M
$1.5
Blended 3:1
$30

One task, estimated

$6.75

Input tokens
50,000
Output tokens
80,000
Profile
Reasoning

Estimated from list pricing: 50K input tokens plus 80K output tokens for reasoning models (25K for non-reasoning).

Serving providers

Speed and latency figures are medians across these providers, so a widely-served model reports a blend rather than any single endpoint.

Arena

Head-to-head generation quality

Elo from pairwise judgements, broken out by the kind of thing the model was asked to build.

Overall Elo
1,212
Win rate
59.9%
Strongest at
Game development
Tournaments
1,652

Elo by category

Dot position on a 1,150–1,225 scale · Elo has no meaningful zero

Agent categories (full-stack apps, mobile apps) are only scored for models tested in agent harnesses.

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CategoryEloWin rate
Game development121259.9%
3D scenes119457.7%
UI components118859.2%
Websites118754.6%
SVG117457.7%
Data visualisation117357.9%