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Claude Opus 5

Anthropic · released Jul 24, 2026

ProprietaryReasoningTool useStructured outputVision

Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic’s flagship model for demanding reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agentic work. It is particularly strong at end-to-end software tasks, code review and bug finding, visual analysis...

Specification

Context window
1M
Max output
128K
Knowledge cutoff
Not stated
Parameters
Undisclosed
Licence
Proprietary
Serving providers
5
Moderated
Yes
Uptime
100.0%

Intelligence

63.1

100th percentile

Coding

78.0

Coding Index

Agentic

59.2

Agentic Index

Output speed

87 t/s

Median across providers

Latency

1.12s

Time to first token

Cost per task

$2.25

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

  • GPQA Diamond
    93.2%
  • AA-LCR (long context)
    75.7%
  • SciCode
    55.7%
  • Humanity's Last Exam
    54.9%
  • τ²-bench (Telecom)
    42.1%

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

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EvaluationScore
GPQA Diamond93.2%
AA-LCR (long context)75.7%
SciCode55.7%
Humanity's Last Exam54.9%
τ²-bench (Telecom)42.1%

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
Claude Opus 563.1
Claude Fable 562.1
GPT-5.6 Sol60.9
Kimi K359.7
Qwen3.8 Max58.1
Claude Opus 4.857.3
Muse Spark 1.256.8
GPT-5.6 Terra56.6

Percentile among all indexed models

Intelligence100th
Coding100th
Agentic99th
Arena Elo100th

Pricing

What it costs to run

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

List price

Input / 1M tokens
$5
Output / 1M tokens
$25
Cached input / 1M
$0.5
Blended 3:1
$10

One task, estimated

$2.25

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
1,393
Win rate
65.2%
Strongest at
Data visualisation
Tournaments
686

Elo by category

Dot position on a 1,325–1,400 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
Data visualisation139365.2%
3D scenes139064.7%
UI components138462.0%
Websites133958.9%