Claude Opus 4.5 vs Claude Opus 4.6
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Claude Opus 4.5 vs Claude Opus 4.6 Comparison Table
Pricing updated November 8, 2026
| Property | Claude Opus 4.5 | Claude Opus 4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Category | closed | closed |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | Nov 2025 | Feb 2026 |
| Context Window | 200K | 1.0M |
| Parameters | Unknown | Unknown |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Commercial use | commercial use per vendor terms | commercial use per vendor terms |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $5.00 | $5.00 |
| Output $/1M | $25.00 | $25.00 |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Model Features | ||
Both support 3 more features | ||
Claude Opus 4.5 vs Claude Opus 4.6 : Overview
Claude Opus 4.5 is Anthropic’s most advanced large language model in the Claude Opus family, designed for high-end reasoning, coding, and autonomous agent workflows. Released in late 2025, it targets developers and enterprises that need reliable long-context understanding and strong multi-step problem solving in production environments.
The model supports text and code natively, with reported multimodal capabilities for documents and images, and offers an exceptionally large context window of up to roughly 200,000 tokens. Claude Opus 4.5 emphasizes long-horizon task execution, complex code generation and refactoring, and sustained reasoning over large inputs. In the current landscape, it positions itself as a premium, accuracy- and reasoning-focused alternative to faster or cheaper peers, trading cost for depth and contextual fidelity. Typical applications include advanced coding assistants, research analysis, agentic automation, and enterprise knowledge workflows deployed via Anthropic’s API or major cloud platforms.
Claude Opus 4.6 is the flagship large language model from Anthropic, released on 2026-02-05 for advanced reasoning, complex coding, and enterprise agent workflows. It supports text and image inputs via API, offers a 200K-token standard context window with a 1M-token beta option, and enables outputs up to 128K tokens, with adaptive reasoning and context compaction for sustained tasks.
As of 2026-02-17, Anthropic also released Claude Sonnet 4.6, extending the 1M-token context window to a broader tier. Opus remains positioned for maximum depth and benchmark performance, while Sonnet 4.6 brings long-context capability to more cost- and latency-sensitive production use cases.