claude-opus-4.6

Anthropic · Claude Opus

Anthropic's flagship frontier model. The strongest in the Claude family for complex reasoning, long-context analysis, and nuanced writing. Opus models sit at the top of most benchmark leaderboards but command premium pricing.

pros

• best-in-class reasoning and instruction following
• excellent at long-context tasks (100K+ tokens)
• strong creative and analytical writing
• high safety and refusal calibration

cons

• most expensive tier per token
• can be overly cautious on edge-case prompts
• slower than smaller models

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