October 19, 2026
Introduction to Claude Opus
Welcome to Claude Opus
Claude Opus is the flagship model line in the Claude family. The latest version, Claude Opus 5.5, excels at agentic coding, knowledge work, long-document analysis, and clear writing, at about 40% lower cost than its predecessor.
Key Features
- Intelligence: Performs at the level of Anthropic's top-tier Fable 5.1 on most work, and leads GPT-6 Astra on agentic coding (66.4% vs 57.9% on Terminal-Bench 4.0).
- Context: 1 million token context window, up to 128k output tokens.
- Price: $4 / $20 per million tokens via the API.
- Modality: Text and image input, with adaptive thinking always on.
This guide is a starting point for your journey with Claude Opus.
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