Claude Opus 4 vs Claude Sonnet 5.5
Claude Sonnet 5.5: 77.6% average across five Vision Evals tasks (#14 of 69 models). Claude Opus 4 is deprecated and was not run through Roboflow's Vision Evals, so there is no head-to-head score.
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Claude Opus 4 is deprecated and can no longer be run. Details and evals are still available on its model page.
Claude Opus 4 vs Claude Sonnet 5.5 Comparison Table
Evals updated November 12, 2026Pricing updated November 13, 2026
| Property | Claude Opus 4 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Category | closed | closed |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | May 2025 | Sep 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 | No published price | $2.00 |
| Output $/1M | No published price | $10.00 |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Captioning | Supported | Demo |
| Classification | Supported | Demo |
| Object Detection | Supported | Demo |
| OCR | Supported | Demo |
| Visual Question Answering | Supported | Demo |
| Model Features | ||
Both support 3 more features | ||
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 5 vision tasks, pooled at low effort | ||
| Overall | Deprecated | 77.6% |
| Avg cost / sample | – | $0.0073 |
| Avg speed / sample | – | 8.33s |
| By task | ||
| Object Detection (low) | – | 74.3% ±0.9, Mean of 3 runs, range 73.5 to 75.3 |
| Object Detection (high) | – | 76.8% ±0.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 76.5 to 77.3 |
| Counting (low) | – | 79.3% ±0.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 78.4 to 79.7 |
| Counting (high) | – | 82.9% ±1.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 81.1 to 83.8 |
| Identification (low) | – | 91.7% ±3.1, Mean of 3 runs, range 87.5 to 93.8 |
| Identification (high) | – | 90.6% ±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 90.6 to 90.6 |
| OCR | – | 66.3% |
| by category |
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| Reasoning (low) | – | 76.4% ±0.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 75.5 to 76.8 |
| Reasoning (high) | – | 83.9% ±1.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 82.1 to 85.4 |
Claude Opus 4 vs Claude Sonnet 5.5: Overview
Claude 4 Opus, released by Anthropic in May 2025, is the flagship model of the Claude 4 family, built for complex, long-horizon reasoning and advanced coding workflows. It is multimodal, supporting text (including voice), images, and tool use, and operates as a hybrid reasoning model—able to deliver quick answers in fast mode or switch to extended thinking for deeper, multi-step problem solving. With a ~200,000-token context window and a training cutoff around March 2025, it is optimized for handling large documents, long conversations, and sophisticated agentic tasks.
It is best suited for research, enterprise automation, and software development at scale. The model is classified at Anthropic’s ASL-3 safety level, denoting advanced oversight and safety features.
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a proprietary multimodal language model from Anthropic and the second release in the Claude 5.5 family, following Claude Opus 5.5. It accepts interleaved text and image input and returns text, operating with a 1M token context window and a maximum output of 128K tokens per request. The model uses adaptive thinking by default, allocating variable reasoning effort per request rather than exposing a manual extended thinking toggle, and its training data cutoff is June 2026. Anthropic positions it as a faster, lower cost complement to Opus 5.5 for well scoped everyday tasks, bug fixing, and producing documents, slides, and spreadsheets.
Anthropic describes it as the first Sonnet model able to complete Pokemon Red from screenshots alone, and it generates output more than 30% faster than Sonnet 5 while using fewer tokens for equivalent work.