Claude Opus 5.5
- In Input modalities: TextImage Out Output modalities: Text
- Reasoning· max
- Tool use
- Structured output
Prices
8 offerings · prices as listed Claude API (opens in a new tab)
claude-opus-5-5| Conditions/ 1M tokens | Input | Cache read | Cache write | Output | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5-minute cache | 1-hour cache | ||||
| Standard | $4.00 | $0.20 | $5.00 | $8.00 | $20.00 |
| Batch | $2.00 | — | — | — | $10.00 |
Prices from Claude API pricing (opens in a new tab) (checked Nov 8, 2026)
Standard: the price a request with no conditions pays (the headline price elsewhere on the site).
Details
- Knowledge cutoff
- Jun 2026
- Open weights
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- Family
- claude-opus
- Model ID
Not stated on Anthropic’s pages: max input, reasoning can be off, max thinking budget, built-in tools, aliases.
Cited scores
From third-party leaderboards, not measured by us- Epoch Capabilities Index 168.4
#3 of 118 listed models · CI 165.5–171.5
- LMArena Text 1,506
#4 of 163 listed models · high effort · CI 1,500–1,512 · 14,815 votes
- Epoch AI · Chess Puzzles 67%
#3 of 85 listed models · max effort · ±4.73
- Epoch AI · EBR-bench 71.4%
#3 of 28 listed models · max effort · ±7.06
- Epoch AI, 'Capabilities & benchmarking'. Published online at epoch.ai. Retrieved from 'https://epoch.ai/benchmarks'. Licensed CC BY 4.0. · License · as of Oct 28 – Nov 5, 2026
- LMArena (Arena), leaderboard-dataset on Hugging Face, licensed CC BY 4.0 · License · as of Nov 8, 2026
- EQ-Bench by Samuel J. Paech (eqbench.com; EQ-bench/EQ-bench-site on GitHub), MIT License. · License · as of Oct 24 – 28, 2026
- LiveBench (White et al.), release 2026-06-25, livebench.ai, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. This board, adapted from it, is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. · License · as of Jun 25, 2026
- Terminal-Bench 4.0 leaderboard (Marten, Shaw et al., Terminal-Bench; harbor-framework/terminal-bench on GitHub), licensed Apache-2.0. · License · as of Sep 29, 2026
- changes we made
Provider-reported scores
Published by Anthropic, under the conditions it states| Benchmark | Setting | Score |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Pro | adaptive thinking, max effort, average of 5 trials | 89.9% |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | adaptive thinking, max effort, average of 5 trials | 93.9% |
| SWE-bench Multimodal | adaptive thinking, max effort, average of 5 trials | 61.4% |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | adaptive thinking, xhigh effort | 66.4% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | no tools, adaptive thinking, max effort | 64.4% |
| with tools, adaptive thinking, max effort | 67.7% | |
| OSWorld 2.0 | partial score, adaptive thinking, max effort | 81.8% |
| strict score, adaptive thinking, max effort | 48.7% |
Included in coding plans
- GitHub Copilot Pro+ $39.00 / month7,000 credits per monthVariable additional usage on top of your base. Flex allotments may change over time.70 USD of usage per month
- GitHub Copilot Max $100.00 / month20,000 credits per monthVariable additional usage on top of your base. Flex allotments may change over time.
- GitHub Copilot Business $19.00 / month1,900 credits per month
- GitHub Copilot Enterprise $39.00 / month3,900 credits per month
- Kiro Pro $20.00 / month1,000 credits per month
- Kiro Pro+ $40.00 / month2,000 credits per month
- Kiro Pro Max $100.00 / month5,000 credits per month
- Kiro Power $200.00 / month10,000 credits per month
News
All news →- Oct 22, 2026Capability Anthropic adds Opus 5.5 fast mode on Google Cloud Fast mode for Claude Opus 5.5 is now available through Anthropic-managed Claude Models on Google Cloud.
- Oct 15, 2026Capability Anthropic makes Opus 5.5 fast mode available on Azure Fast mode for Claude Opus 5.5 is now available in Claude on Microsoft Foundry for deployments hosted on Azure.
- Sep 22, 2026Release Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 (claude-opus-5-5): 1M context, 128k max output, always-on adaptive thinking, at $4/$20 per MTok (Claude Opus 5 is $5/$25). It is on the Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Foundry.
- Sep 22, 2026Capability Anthropic previews fast mode for Claude Opus 5.5 Fast mode is available as a research preview for Claude Opus 5.5 on the Claude API.
Changes
All changes →- 3 new prices on Claude API Cache write (1-hour cache) $8.00 · Input (Batch) $2.00 · Output (Batch) $10.00
- New language model
Sources
- Introducing Claude Opus 5.5 (opens in a new tab) anthropic.com · checked Sep 26, 2026
- System Card: Claude Opus 5.5 (September 22, 2026) (opens in a new tab) www-cdn.anthropic.com · checked Sep 26, 2026
- Claude API pricing (opens in a new tab) platform.claude.com · checked Nov 8, 2026
- Models overview (opens in a new tab) platform.claude.com · checked Nov 8, 2026
- Claude Opus 5.5 model overview (opens in a new tab) platform.claude.com · checked Nov 8, 2026
- Amazon Bedrock pricing (opens in a new tab) aws.amazon.com · checked Nov 8, 2026
- Vertex AI generative AI pricing (opens in a new tab) cloud.google.com · checked Oct 25, 2026
- Structured outputs (opens in a new tab) platform.claude.com · checked Nov 8, 2026
- Claude Opus \ Anthropic (opens in a new tab) anthropic.com · checked Nov 3, 2026
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