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Claude Opus 4.6 (batch)

Anthropic · released Feb 4, 2026

ProprietaryReasoningTool useStructured outputVisionBatch endpoint

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...

Specification

Context window
1M
Max output
128K
Knowledge cutoff
Not stated
Parameters
Undisclosed
Licence
Proprietary
Serving providers
1
Moderated
Yes

Intelligence

38.8

86th percentile

Coding

Coding Index

Agentic

Agentic Index

Output speed

Median across providers

Latency

Time to first token

Cost per task

$1.13

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

  • τ²-bench (Telecom)
    84.8%
  • GPQA Diamond
    84.0%
  • AA-LCR (long context)
    62.3%
  • Terminal-Bench Hard
    48.5%
  • SciCode
    45.7%
  • IFBench
    44.6%
  • Humanity's Last Exam
    19.1%

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

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EvaluationScore
τ²-bench (Telecom)84.8%
GPQA Diamond84.0%
AA-LCR (long context)62.3%
Terminal-Bench Hard48.5%
SciCode45.7%
IFBench44.6%
Humanity's Last Exam19.1%

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
Qwen3.7 Plus39.4
GLM 5 Turbo39.1
M2.738.9
Claude Opus 4.6 (batch)38.8
Claude Opus 4.638.8
MiMo-V2.538.0
Grok 4.2038.0
Grok 4.337.9

Percentile among all indexed models

Intelligence86th
Terminal work94th
Arena Elo93th

Pricing

What it costs to run

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

List price

Input / 1M tokens
$2.5
Output / 1M tokens
$12.5
Cached input / 1M
$0.25
Blended 3:1
$5

One task, estimated

$1.13

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
1,329
Win rate
62.5%
Strongest at
3D scenes
Tournaments
5,816

Elo by category

Dot position on a 1,250–1,350 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
3D scenes132962.5%
UI components132060.0%
Game development132061.2%
Websites131561.4%
Data visualisation131058.7%
SVG127561.1%
Mobile apps127964.8%
Full-stack apps126268.5%