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Claude Opus 5.5

Claude Opus 5.5 is a top-tier frontier AI model developed by Anthropic and released on September 22, 2026. It is a proprietary closed-weight model, available on the Claude Platform and on Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. The 1M-token context window is large enough to hold entire codebases, lengthy technical documents, or extended agentic sessions without truncation.

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Opus 5.5 is the first model in Anthropic’s Claude 5.5 family. Anthropic says it performs at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 on most work while costing less to run than Opus 5, and that it generates output noticeably faster. Testers highlighted large software tasks: one completed a 680,000-line code migration in under a day. Anthropic also says it writes more clearly than earlier models, puts the key information first, and is less likely to take hard-to-reverse actions or act outside its given boundaries. Because its biology and cybersecurity capabilities are comparable to Mythos 5.1, it ships with safeguards similar to Fable 5.1’s.

Benchmarks

Each score appears once, with its rank among tracked models and who measured it.

Compared with Frontier peers on the same scale
  • Claude Opus 5.5this model
  • GPT-6.1 Solthis model leads on 3 of 4
  • Grok 4.7this model leads on 5 of 5
Verified independent evaluator, counted in the ranking Self-reported published by Anthropic, shown but not ranked
Overall

AA Intelligence Index

Independent composite of agent, coding, knowledge and science tests by Artificial Analysis (v4).

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Claude Opus 5.5 57.6 GPT-6.1 Sol 51.8 Grok 4.7 46.4
#1of 45 Verified
Coding

DeepSWE

113 long-horizon software tasks written from scratch, graded by hidden tests.

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Claude Opus 5.5 74.2% GPT-6.1 Sol No score Grok 4.7 71.0%
Not ranked Self-reported

SWE-bench Pro

Real issues across several languages and large codebases.

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Claude Opus 5.5 89.9% GPT-6.1 Sol No score Grok 4.7 No score
Not ranked Self-reported
Agents

Terminal-Bench 4.0

Multi-step professional tasks done by an agent in a command-line terminal.

Source ↗Also: Self-reported 66.4% (xhigh effort, safeguards on; Anthropic launch page https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-5-5)

Claude Opus 5.5 59.6% GPT-6.1 Sol 56.1% Grok 4.7 25.8%
#2of 36 Verified

Humanity's Last Exam

Expert-written questions across 100+ subjects, no tools.

Source ↗Also: Self-reported 64.4% (no tools)

Claude Opus 5.5 61.4% GPT-6.1 Sol 52.9% Grok 4.7 43.1%
#1of 44 Verified

ARC-AGI-2

Novel visual puzzles that cannot be memorised.

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Claude Opus 5.5 93.3% GPT-6.1 Sol 94.2% Grok 4.7 61.4%
#3of 27 Verified

What to Use Claude Opus 5.5 For

Software Engineering

Anthropic reports strong results on agentic coding, including large code migrations and finding and fixing performance problems in existing software, which suits teams using AI on complex engineering work.

Agentic Coding & Computer Use

It is built for long agentic sessions in the terminal and on a computer, where it needs to act within given boundaries and avoid hard-to-reverse actions.

Knowledge Work & Writing

Anthropic says Opus 5.5 communicates more naturally than earlier models, with clearer writing and the most important information up front, which helps for reports, analysis and long collaboration sessions.

Large Codebase & Document Analysis

With a 1M-token context window, it can take in entire repositories, long contracts or extended conversation histories in a single prompt.

Strengths and limitations

Strengths

  • Strong agentic coding and large-scale software changes
  • Clearer, more natural writing than earlier Claude models
  • Less likely to take hard-to-reverse actions or act outside given boundaries
  • More resistant to prompt injection than Opus 5
  • Very long documents and large codebases (1M context)

Limitations

  • Closed-weight, so it cannot be self-hosted or fine-tuned on private data
  • Biology and cybersecurity safeguards limit some dual-use tasks unless an organization is verified
  • No thinking-off mode

Use it in FlowHunt

Use Claude Opus 5.5 in any flow, next to your own tools and knowledge sources.

  1. 1Open a flow, or create one from a template
  2. 2Add an AI Agent or Generator component
  3. 3Pick Claude Opus 5.5 in the model selector

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About Anthropic San Francisco, CA · Founded 2021 · anthropic.com

Anthropic is an AI safety company founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei, along with a group of colleagues who had led OpenAI's safety and policy teams. The company's stated mission is the responsible development of AI for the long-term benefit of humanity, and its research agenda is defined by that commitment: Constitutional AI (CAI), a technique for training models to be helpful, harmless, and honest through self-critique; mechanistic interpretability, which aims to reverse-engineer what individual neurons and circuits inside large networks actually compute; and scaling science, which tries to predict how model behaviour changes with compute and data. Anthropic publishes this research openly and has become one of the most cited AI safety labs in academic literature. Claude is Anthropic's public model family, named for Claude Shannon, the founder of information theory, and runs from Claude 1 to the Claude 5.5 generation and Claude Fable 5.1. Anthropic operates a commercial API and consumer-facing Claude.ai product, and maintains deep cloud partnerships with AWS (Amazon Bedrock) and Google Cloud (Vertex AI).

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