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Anthropic · launched 22 Sept 2026

Claude Opus 5.5

Anthropic's newest Opus model. Tokens cost 20% less than Opus 5 and cache reads 60% less, with output generated more than 30% faster.

Read the official announcement
Model details
Vendor
Anthropic
Launch date
22 Sept 2026
Input price
$4.00 / 1M tokens
Output price
$20 / 1M tokens
Cached input
$0.20 / 1M tokens
Batch discount
50%
Context window
1M tokens
Max output
128K tokens
Input types
Text, Image, File
API model ID
claude-opus-5-5
OpenRouter ID
anthropic/claude-opus-5.5
Compared with Claude Opus 5

Input price

$4.00

was $5.00 · 20% cheaper

Output price

$20

was $25 · 20% cheaper

Blended price

$8.00

was $10 · 20% cheaper

Best published results
  • Terminal-Bench 4.0xhigh effort · $7.35 per attempt · reported by Anthropic66.4%
  • FrontierCode v1.1medium effort · $0.80 per task · reported by Anthropic54.64%
  • CursorBench 4.0max effort · $13.4 per task · reported by Anthropic57.8%
  • GDPval-AA v2.1max effort · $8.92 per task · reported by Anthropic1846 Elo
  • AutomationBenchmax effort · $1.37 per task · reported by Anthropic40%
  • WANDRmax effort · $37.9 per attempt · reported by Anthropic72.3%
  • Terminal-Bench 4.0xhigh effort · $7.35 per attempt · reported by Anthropic66.4%
  • FrontierCode v1.1medium effort · $0.80 per task · reported by Anthropic54.6%
  • CursorBench 4.0max effort · $13.4 per task · reported by Anthropic57.8%
  • AA-Briefcase v1.1max effort · $21 per task · reported by Anthropic1822 Elo

Price compared with other models

ModelLaunchedInput / 1MOutput / 1MCached / 1MBlended / 1Mvs Claude Opus 5.5
GPT-6 LunaOpenAI22 Sept 2026$0.10$0.50$0.01$0.2098% cheaper
GPT-5.6 LunaOpenAI9 Jul 2026$0.20$1.20$0.02$0.4594% cheaper
Claude Sonnet 5Anthropic30 Jun 2026$2.00$10$0.20$4.0050% cheaper
Claude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic28 Sept 2026$2.00$10$0.20$4.0050% cheaper
GPT-6 SolOpenAI22 Sept 2026$2.00$10$0.20$4.0050% cheaper
Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic22 Sept 2026$4.00$20$0.20$8.00Baseline
GPT-5.6 SolOpenAIPrice before the GPT-6 launch, from OpenAI's announcement. OpenRouter now lists $2 / $10.9 Jul 2026$4.00$20–$8.00Same price
Claude Opus 5Anthropic · previous generation24 Jul 2026$5.00$25$0.50$1025% more
Claude Fable 5Anthropic9 Jun 2026$10$50$1.00$202.5× the price
Claude Fable 5.1Anthropic1 Sept 2026$10$50$0.25$202.5× the price
GPT-6 AstraOpenAI4 Sept 2026$10$50$1.00$202.5× the price

USD per million tokens, checked 2 Oct 2026 via OpenRouter. Comparison uses the blended price (3 input tokens for every output token).

Official benchmark results

Claude Opus 5.5 launch results

Reported by Anthropic on 22 Sept 2026 · exact values

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Claude Fable 5.1Claude Opus 5GPT-6 AstraGPT-5.6 Sol
Terminal-Bench 4.0Agentic coding66.4%55.8%52.3%57.9%37.3%
FrontierCode v1.1 (main)Agentic coding54.4%50.3%48%53.3%47.5%
CursorBench 4.0Agentic coding57.8%51.8%46.6%–41.7%
GDPval-AA v2.1Knowledge work1846 Elo1735 Elo1708 Elo1542 Elo1588 Elo
AutomationBenchBusiness workflows40%31.4%26.9%41.4%28.8%
Humanity's Last ExamMultidisciplinary reasoning · with tools67.7%65.6%63.6%57.2%–
Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1Agentic scientific research58.7%52.6%29%64.6%22.4%
OSWorld 2.1Computer use · partial81.8%80.7%74%––
ChartographyVisual chart recognition · with tools89%88.4%83.4%––
  • Bold marks the best reported score in each row.
  • Claude Opus 5.5 results use adaptive thinking at max effort unless noted.
  • Terminal-Bench 4.0 shows each model's highest score: Claude Opus 5.5 at xhigh effort and GPT-6 Astra at high effort. GPT-6 Astra and GPT-5.6 Sol figures there are as reported by OpenAI.
  • A dash means the lab did not report a result for that model.
Source: Introducing Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic)
Claude Sonnet 5.5 launch results

Reported by Anthropic on 28 Sept 2026 · exact values

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Claude Sonnet 5Claude Opus 5.5GPT-6 Sol
Terminal-Bench 4.0Agentic coding70.6%10.3%66.4%–
FrontierCode 1.1 (main)Agentic coding · Sonnet 5.5 at max effort, 52.1% at xhigh46.2%42.4%54.4%49.3%
CursorBench 4.0Agentic coding55.5%34.1%57.8%–
GDPval-AA v2.1Knowledge work1844 Elo1449 Elo1846 Elo1487 Elo
AA-Briefcase v1.1Knowledge work1811 Elo1359 Elo1822 Elo1483 Elo
Humanity's Last ExamMultidisciplinary reasoning · with tools64.5%54.9%67.7%–
OSWorld 2.1Computer use · partial80.1%57%81.8%–
ChartographyVisual chart recognition · no tools61.6%15.6%64.4%53.6%
  • Bold marks the best reported score in each row.
  • Claude Opus 5.5's Terminal-Bench 4.0 score is at xhigh effort, its highest.
  • OpenAI recently fixed a bug affecting GPT-6 Sol's image understanding; its GDPval-AA, AA-Briefcase and Chartography scores may predate the fix.
  • A dash means the lab did not report a result for that model.
Source: Introducing Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Anthropic)
Terminal-Bench 4.0

Accuracy against cost · reported by Anthropic on 22 Sept 2026 · exact values

Measures how well a model completes complex, multi-step professional tasks within a command line interface.

  • Claude Opus 5.5
  • Claude Fable 5.1
  • Claude Opus 5
  • GPT-6 Astra
  • GPT-5.6 Sol
Show data table
ModelEffortScoreCost per task
Claude Opus 5.5low38.5%$1.29
Claude Opus 5.5medium57.6%$2.94
Claude Opus 5.5high64.2%$3.88
Claude Opus 5.5xhigh66.4%$7.35
Claude Opus 5.5max64.8%$11.2
Claude Fable 5.1low40.2%$5.70
Claude Fable 5.1medium43.4%$7.80
Claude Fable 5.1high49.4%$10.5
Claude Fable 5.1xhigh51.3%$15.8
Claude Fable 5.1max55.8%$19.5
Claude Opus 5low28.5%$4.25
Claude Opus 5medium41.2%$7.00
Claude Opus 5high47%$10.6
Claude Opus 5xhigh50.6%$13.5
Claude Opus 5max52.3%$15.8
GPT-6 Astralow49.7%$4.95
GPT-6 Astramedium53.9%$6.15
GPT-6 Astrahigh57.9%$7.21
GPT-6 Astraxhigh57.6%$7.48
GPT-6 Astramax56.7%$10.3
GPT-5.6 Sollow7.9%$1.46
GPT-5.6 Solmedium20.9%$2.69
GPT-5.6 Solhigh26.1%$4.12
GPT-5.6 Solxhigh28.5%$5.39
GPT-5.6 Solmax37.3%$7.89
  • Exact values from the data published with Anthropic's announcement.
  • GPT-6 Astra and GPT-5.6 Sol figures are as reported by OpenAI.
Source: Introducing Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic)
FrontierCode v1.1, main set

Accuracy against cost · reported by Anthropic on 22 Sept 2026 · exact values

Measures whether an agent's code changes would be merged.

  • Claude Opus 5.5
  • Claude Fable 5.1
  • Claude Opus 5
  • GPT-6 Astra
  • GPT-5.6 Sol
Show data table
ModelEffortScoreCost per task
Claude Opus 5.5low47.3%$0.40
Claude Opus 5.5medium54.64%$0.80
Claude Opus 5.5high53.99%$1.09
Claude Opus 5.5xhigh51.42%$2.25
Claude Opus 5.5max54.43%$6.19
Claude Fable 5.1low52.8%$2.47
Claude Fable 5.1medium50.91%$3.28
Claude Fable 5.1high50.34%$5.27
Claude Fable 5.1xhigh48.73%$9.27
Claude Fable 5.1max50.28%$12.8
Claude Opus 5low41.95%$2.64
Claude Opus 5medium53.38%$4.61
Claude Opus 5high47.99%$7.62
Claude Opus 5xhigh43.65%$8.99
Claude Opus 5max48.04%$12.3
GPT-6 Astralow45.27%$1.59
GPT-6 Astramedium48.83%$2.28
GPT-6 Astrahigh50.94%$2.85
GPT-6 Astraxhigh50.62%$3.10
GPT-6 Astramax53.26%$4.36
GPT-5.6 Sollow35.44%$1.75
GPT-5.6 Solmedium39.93%$2.50
GPT-5.6 Solhigh45.06%$3.25
GPT-5.6 Solxhigh46.84%$3.88
GPT-5.6 Solmax47.49%$4.85
  • Exact values from the data published with Anthropic's announcement.
Source: Introducing Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic)
CursorBench 4.0

Accuracy against cost · reported by Anthropic on 22 Sept 2026 · exact values

Evaluates coding agents on ambiguous, multi-file tasks taken from real Cursor sessions.

  • Claude Opus 5.5
  • Claude Fable 5.1
  • Claude Opus 5
  • GPT-5.6 Sol
Show data table
ModelEffortScoreCost per task
Claude Opus 5.5low43.7%$1.18
Claude Opus 5.5medium52.5%$2.90
Claude Opus 5.5high56%$3.97
Claude Opus 5.5xhigh56%$6.99
Claude Opus 5.5max57.8%$13.4
Claude Fable 5.1low45.1%$5.44
Claude Fable 5.1medium46.8%$7.05
Claude Fable 5.1high49.2%$9.08
Claude Fable 5.1xhigh51.6%$13
Claude Fable 5.1max51.8%$17.3
Claude Opus 5low40.7%$4.87
Claude Opus 5medium43.3%$6.94
Claude Opus 5high44.7%$9.00
Claude Opus 5xhigh46.1%$11.4
Claude Opus 5max46.6%$11.9
GPT-5.6 Sollow24.6%$0.87
GPT-5.6 Solmedium31.1%$1.77
GPT-5.6 Solhigh35.7%$2.85
GPT-5.6 Solxhigh37.7%$4.40
GPT-5.6 Solmax41.7%$8.23
  • Exact values from the data published with Anthropic's announcement.
Source: Introducing Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic)
GDPval-AA v2.1

Elo against cost · reported by Anthropic on 22 Sept 2026 · exact values

Artificial Analysis's evaluation of agents on real-world professional work across 44 occupations.

  • Claude Opus 5.5
  • Claude Fable 5.1
  • Claude Opus 5
  • GPT-6 Astra
  • GPT-5.6 Sol
Show data table
ModelEffortEloCost per task
Claude Opus 5.5low1224 Elo$0.21
Claude Opus 5.5medium1576 Elo$0.86
Claude Opus 5.5high1692 Elo$1.54
Claude Opus 5.5xhigh1820 Elo$4.21
Claude Opus 5.5max1846 Elo$8.92
Claude Fable 5.1low1450 Elo$1.41
Claude Fable 5.1medium1536 Elo$2.17
Claude Fable 5.1high1617 Elo$3.43
Claude Fable 5.1xhigh1721 Elo$7.09
Claude Fable 5.1max1735 Elo$9.59
Claude Opus 5low1294 Elo$0.58
Claude Opus 5medium1476 Elo$1.36
Claude Opus 5high1581 Elo$3.03
Claude Opus 5xhigh1676 Elo$4.96
Claude Opus 5max1708 Elo$6.76
GPT-6 Astralow1366 Elo$0.85
GPT-6 Astramedium1468 Elo$1.82
GPT-6 Astrahigh1485 Elo$2.43
GPT-6 Astraxhigh1516 Elo$3.04
GPT-6 Astramax1542 Elo$4.53
GPT-5.6 Sollow1289 Elo$0.27
GPT-5.6 Solmedium1403 Elo$0.60
GPT-5.6 Solhigh1480 Elo$1.11
GPT-5.6 Solxhigh1548 Elo$1.70
GPT-5.6 Solmax1588 Elo$2.81
  • Exact values from the data published with Anthropic's announcement.
Source: Introducing Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic)
AutomationBench

Pass rate against cost · reported by Anthropic on 22 Sept 2026 · exact values

Built by Zapier, tests whether an agent can carry out real business workflows across many connected apps.

  • Claude Opus 5.5
  • Claude Opus 5
  • GPT-6 Astra
  • GPT-5.6 Sol
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ModelEffortPass rateCost per task
Claude Opus 5.5low23.3%$0.50
Claude Opus 5.5medium28.6%$0.64
Claude Opus 5.5high32%$0.70
Claude Opus 5.5xhigh34.4%$0.86
Claude Opus 5.5max40%$1.37
Claude Opus 5low20.4%$0.75
Claude Opus 5medium23.9%$0.89
Claude Opus 5high20.6%$1.03
Claude Opus 5xhigh25.3%$1.15
Claude Opus 5max26.9%$1.27
GPT-6 Astralow30.3%$1.08
GPT-6 Astramedium34.1%$1.28
GPT-6 Astrahigh37.1%$1.45
GPT-6 Astraxhigh39%$1.53
GPT-6 Astramax41.4%$1.77
GPT-5.6 Sollow11.7%$0.42
GPT-5.6 Solmedium19.6%$0.57
GPT-5.6 Solhigh24.8%$0.64
GPT-5.6 Solxhigh26.3%$0.74
GPT-5.6 Solmax28.8%$0.91
  • Exact values from the data published with Anthropic's announcement.
  • Runs were performed by Zapier without fallback models, so safeguard interventions counted as failures.
Source: Introducing Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic)
WANDR

Accuracy against cost · reported by Anthropic on 22 Sept 2026 · exact values

Perplexity's benchmark measuring agents on large data collection tasks.

  • Claude Opus 5.5
  • Claude Fable 5.1
  • Claude Opus 5
Show data table
ModelEffortScoreCost per task
Claude Opus 5.5low31.2%$1.20
Claude Opus 5.5medium62.8%$11.2
Claude Opus 5.5high67.3%$16.9
Claude Opus 5.5xhigh71.3%$29.1
Claude Opus 5.5max72.3%$37.9
Claude Fable 5.1low63.3%$23.3
Claude Fable 5.1medium64.5%$27.4
Claude Fable 5.1high66.7%$33.6
Claude Fable 5.1xhigh67.7%$42.8
Claude Fable 5.1max68.7%$49
Claude Opus 5low50.5%$10.7
Claude Opus 5medium58.1%$24
Claude Opus 5high64.6%$43.5
Claude Opus 5xhigh67%$53.8
Claude Opus 5max67.2%$61.6
  • Exact values from the data published with Anthropic's announcement.
  • Claude models ran with offline web search and fetch tools and a 980K-token task budget. This differs from Perplexity's published setup, so scores are not comparable with Perplexity's leaderboard.
Source: Introducing Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic)
Terminal-Bench 4.0

Accuracy against cost · reported by Anthropic on 28 Sept 2026 · exact values

Measures how well a model completes complex, multi-step professional tasks within a command-line interface.

  • Claude Sonnet 5.5
  • Claude Opus 5.5
  • Claude Sonnet 5
  • GPT-5.6 Sol
Show data table
ModelEffortScoreCost per task
Claude Sonnet 5.5low20%$0.76
Claude Sonnet 5.5medium28.8%$0.83
Claude Sonnet 5.5high43%$1.94
Claude Sonnet 5.5xhigh61.5%$5.30
Claude Sonnet 5.5max70.6%$12.5
Claude Opus 5.5low38.5%$1.29
Claude Opus 5.5medium57.6%$2.94
Claude Opus 5.5high64.2%$3.88
Claude Opus 5.5xhigh66.4%$7.35
Claude Opus 5.5max64.8%$11.2
Claude Sonnet 5low3.2%$3.78
Claude Sonnet 5medium4.4%$4.83
Claude Sonnet 5high4.5%$8.20
Claude Sonnet 5xhigh7%$9.95
Claude Sonnet 5max10.3%$11.6
GPT-5.6 Sollow7.9%$1.46
GPT-5.6 Solmedium20.9%$2.69
GPT-5.6 Solhigh26.1%$4.12
GPT-5.6 Solxhigh28.5%$5.39
GPT-5.6 Solmax37.3%$7.89
  • Exact values from the data published with Anthropic's announcement.
  • OpenAI did not report GPT-6 Sol on this benchmark, so Anthropic shows GPT-5.6 Sol.
Source: Introducing Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Anthropic)
FrontierCode v1.1, main set

Accuracy against cost · reported by Anthropic on 28 Sept 2026 · exact values

Measures whether an agent's code changes would be merged.

  • Claude Sonnet 5.5
  • Claude Opus 5.5
  • Claude Sonnet 5
  • GPT-6 Sol
Show data table
ModelEffortScoreCost per task
Claude Sonnet 5.5low29.3%$0.19
Claude Sonnet 5.5medium36.5%$0.24
Claude Sonnet 5.5high49.4%$0.42
Claude Sonnet 5.5xhigh52.1%$1.59
Claude Sonnet 5.5max46.2%$20.8
Claude Opus 5.5low47.3%$0.40
Claude Opus 5.5medium54.6%$0.80
Claude Opus 5.5high54%$1.09
Claude Opus 5.5xhigh51.4%$2.25
Claude Opus 5.5max54.4%$6.19
Claude Sonnet 5low28.7%$2.39
Claude Sonnet 5medium35.2%$3.81
Claude Sonnet 5high39.4%$6.10
Claude Sonnet 5xhigh42.7%$10.1
Claude Sonnet 5max42.4%$17.1
GPT-6 Sollow37.3%$0.43
GPT-6 Solmedium45.9%$0.77
GPT-6 Solhigh47.7%$1.04
GPT-6 Solxhigh48.4%$1.32
GPT-6 Solmax49.3%$2.07
  • Exact values from the data published with Anthropic's announcement.
Source: Introducing Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Anthropic)
CursorBench 4.0

Accuracy against cost · reported by Anthropic on 28 Sept 2026 · exact values

Evaluates coding agents on ambiguous, multi-file tasks taken from real Cursor sessions.

  • Claude Sonnet 5.5
  • Claude Opus 5.5
  • Claude Sonnet 5
  • GPT-5.6 Sol
Show data table
ModelEffortScoreCost per task
Claude Sonnet 5.5low35.8%$0.50
Claude Sonnet 5.5medium39.2%$0.70
Claude Sonnet 5.5high47.8%$1.67
Claude Sonnet 5.5xhigh53.1%$3.88
Claude Sonnet 5.5max55.5%$9.67
Claude Opus 5.5low43.7%$1.17
Claude Opus 5.5medium52.5%$2.91
Claude Opus 5.5high56%$3.97
Claude Opus 5.5xhigh56%$6.98
Claude Opus 5.5max57.8%$13.4
Claude Sonnet 5low24.1%$1.39
Claude Sonnet 5medium28%$2.31
Claude Sonnet 5high30.8%$3.48
Claude Sonnet 5xhigh32%$4.55
Claude Sonnet 5max34.1%$7.17
GPT-5.6 Sollow24.6%$0.87
GPT-5.6 Solmedium31.1%$1.77
GPT-5.6 Solhigh35.7%$2.85
GPT-5.6 Solxhigh37.7%$4.40
GPT-5.6 Solmax41.7%$8.23
  • Exact values from the data published with Anthropic's announcement.
  • CursorBench does not report GPT-6 Sol publicly, so Anthropic shows GPT-5.6 Sol.
Source: Introducing Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Anthropic)
AA-Briefcase v1.1

Elo against cost · reported by Anthropic on 28 Sept 2026 · exact values

Artificial Analysis's benchmark of long-horizon knowledge work.

  • Claude Sonnet 5.5
  • Claude Opus 5.5
  • Claude Sonnet 5
  • GPT-6 Sol
Show data table
ModelEffortEloCost per task
Claude Sonnet 5.5low1264 Elo$0.87
Claude Sonnet 5.5medium1461 Elo$1.64
Claude Sonnet 5.5high1634 Elo$3.95
Claude Sonnet 5.5xhigh1746 Elo$9.63
Claude Sonnet 5.5max1811 Elo$29.2
Claude Opus 5.5low1285 Elo$1.15
Claude Opus 5.5medium1642 Elo$4.40
Claude Opus 5.5high1705 Elo$6.27
Claude Opus 5.5xhigh1780 Elo$12.3
Claude Opus 5.5max1822 Elo$21
Claude Sonnet 5low923 Elo$0.82
Claude Sonnet 5medium1056 Elo$1.73
Claude Sonnet 5high1177 Elo$3.76
Claude Sonnet 5xhigh1274 Elo$7.56
Claude Sonnet 5max1359 Elo$14.4
GPT-6 Sollow905 Elo$0.12
GPT-6 Solmedium1142 Elo$0.34
GPT-6 Solhigh1289 Elo$0.63
GPT-6 Solxhigh1364 Elo$1.19
GPT-6 Solmax1483 Elo$2.67
  • Exact values from the data published with Anthropic's announcement.
  • Artificial Analysis ran Sonnet 5.5 on a pre-release deployment with a since-fixed structured output bug, which may slightly understate its score.
Source: Introducing Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Anthropic)