vs
1:13
overall capability wins (0 ties across 14 scored). Claude Opus 4.6 leads overall.
- Reasoning1:6
- Coding0:4
- Arena0:1
- Specs0:2
Verdict
Claude Opus 4.6 leads coding (widest gap: +68.9 on WebDev Elo); Claude Opus 4.6 ranks higher on LMArena (+28 Elo); Claude Opus 4.6 offers ~5.0x larger context (1M vs 200K).
- Claude Opus 4.6 leads coding (widest gap: +68.9 on WebDev Elo)
- Claude Opus 4.6 ranks higher on LMArena (+28 Elo)
- Claude Opus 4.6 offers ~5.0x larger context (1M vs 200K)
- Claude Opus 4.6 allows ~2.0x more max output (128K vs 64K)
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Claude Opus 4.5
- $11.25
- Claude Opus 4.6
- $11.25
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Anthropic
Anthropic
Family
Claude Opus
Claude Opus
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Open weights
No
No
Release
Nov 24, 2025
Feb 19, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Anthropic
Anthropic
Modalities
text, image → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
200K
1M
Max output
64K
128K
Parameters
—
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$5
$5
Output $/1M
$25
$25
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$10
$10
Speed
tok/s
65
65
TTFT (s)
0.6
0.6
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
86.6
89.6
Humanity's Last Exam
30.1
39.9
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
46.6
47.0
AA-LCR v1.1
77.3
78.0
CritPt
4.6
12.6
MMMU-Pro
74.0
75.4
IFBench
58.0
53.1
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
75.6
SWE-bench Pro
45.9
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
70.7
72.0
LiveCodeBench
—
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
—
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
49.5
51.9
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
53.1
53.3
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
1,468
1,537
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,470
1,497
| Metric | Claude Opus 4.5 | Claude Opus 4.6 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Anthropic | Anthropic | — |
| Family | Claude Opus | Claude Opus | — |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | No | No | — |
| Release | Nov 24, 2025 | Feb 19, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Anthropic | Anthropic | — |
| Modalities | text, image → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 200K | 1M | B +800K |
| Max output | 64K | 128K | B +64K |
| Parameters | — | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $5 | $5 | tie |
| Output $/1M | $25 | $25 | tie |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $10 | $10 | tie |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 65 | 65 | tie |
| TTFT (s) | 0.6 | 0.6 | tie |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 86.6 | 89.6 | B +3.0 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 30.1 | 39.9 | B +9.8 pts |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 46.6 | 47.0 | B +0.4 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 77.3 | 78.0 | B +0.7 pts |
| CritPt | 4.6 | 12.6 | B +8.0 pts |
| MMMU-Pro | 74.0 | 75.4 | B +1.4 pts |
| IFBench | 58.0 | 53.1 | A +4.9 pts |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 75.6 | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | 45.9 | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 70.7 | 72.0 | B +1.3 pts |
| LiveCodeBench | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | — | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 49.5 | 51.9 | B +2.4 pts |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | 53.1 | 53.3 | B +0.2 pts |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | 1,468 | 1,537 | B +69 Elo |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,470 | 1,497 | B +28 Elo |
Claude Opus 4.5
- Context
- 200K / 64K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $5 / $25
- Speed
- 65 tok/s · 0.6s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Proprietary
Late-2025 Opus release that set a high bar on SWE-bench; superseded by 4.8 and Opus 5 for new projects.
Claude Opus 4.6
- Context
- 1M / 128K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $5 / $25
- Speed
- 65 tok/s · 0.6s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Proprietary
Mid-stack Opus generation between 4.5 and 4.7 - strong coding and long context.
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