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Claude Opus 5.5: Benchmarks, Pricing & Context Window

Claude Opus 5.5 is a language model from Anthropic, released in September 2026, with multimodal input, a 1M-token context window, and pricing from $4.00/M input, $0.200/M cached input, $20.00/M output.

Claude Opus 5.5 is the first model in Anthropic's Claude 5.5 family. It performs at Claude Fable 5.1 level on most work at about 40% lower cost than Claude Opus 5, and targets long-running agentic coding and knowledge work. It accepts text

Input
TextImage
Output
Text

Claude Opus 5.5 benchmarks

Capability tiers

Standing within each category, adjusted for leaderboard depth.

Real tasks performance

High-confidence performance for Claude Opus 5.5 across real-world prompt categories. Only 95% intervals at most 4 points wide are shown.

Performance by conversation depth

How Claude Opus 5.5 holds up as conversations get longer.

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Claude Opus 5.5 Performance Across Datasets

Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts

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Claude Opus 5.5 pricing

Providers

Claude Opus 5.5 starts at $4.00 per million input tokens and $20.00 per million output tokens via Anthropic. Reused prompt prefixes cost $0.200 per million cached input tokens.

ProviderInput $/MCached input $/MOutput $/MContext in / outTTFT p95 sOutput p5 c/sModalities in / out
Anthropic logoAnthropic
$4.00$0.200$20.001.0M/128.0K
9.46
176
/

Cached input is the discounted price for prompt tokens served from a provider cache. TTFT is time to first token. Output is characters per second; p5 is the sustained floor exceeded by 95% of observed requests.

Claude Opus 5.5 context window

Input and output token limits for Claude Opus 5.5, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.

InputOutput
1Mtokens
128Ktokens
1.5k pages of text
1M
8K128K1M

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Claude Opus 5.5 latency

Claude Opus 5.5 time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live model usage over the trailing 7 days.

Provider operational metrics

Time to first token, output throughput, and failed-request rate from live model usage

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Claude Opus 5.5 examples

Recent arena outputs from Claude Opus 5.5, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.

Claude Opus 5.5 license

Claude Opus 5.5 is a proprietary model available under its provider's product and API terms, has a knowledge cutoff of June 2026.

License
Proprietary
Hosted access
Knowledge cutoff
June 2026

Proprietary license - usage restrictions apply

Claude Opus 5.5 resources

Official sources for Claude Opus 5.5: provider documentation, official playground, paper or system card, official launch post.

Claude Opus 5.5 vs other models

The most-compared alternatives to Claude Opus 5.5 are Claude Mythos Preview, GPT-6 Astra, Muse Spark 1.3. Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.

Models like Claude Opus 5.5

Models ranked just above and below Claude Opus 5.5 by LLM Stats score.

 

Claude Mythos Preview

Score pending
 

GPT-6 Astra

Score pending
 

Muse Spark 1.3

Score pending
 

Claude Opus 4.8

Score pending
 

DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813

Score pending
 

Claude Fable 5

Score pending

FAQ

Common questions about Claude Opus 5.5.

When was Claude Opus 5.5 released?

Claude Opus 5.5 was released on September 22, 2026 by Anthropic. This is the official Claude Opus 5.5 release date tracked on LLM Stats.

How much does Claude Opus 5.5 cost?

Claude Opus 5.5 pricing starts at $4.00 per million input tokens, $0.20 per million cached input tokens, $20.00 per million output tokens via Anthropic, the lowest price among tracked providers.

Who created Claude Opus 5.5?

Claude Opus 5.5 was created by Anthropic.

What is the license for Claude Opus 5.5?

Claude Opus 5.5 is released under the Proprietary license.

What is the knowledge cutoff date for Claude Opus 5.5?

Claude Opus 5.5 has a knowledge cutoff of June 2026, meaning it was trained on data up to that point and may not know about events after it.

Is Claude Opus 5.5 multimodal?

Yes, Claude Opus 5.5 is multimodal and can accept both text and images as input.

What is Claude Opus 5.5 latency?

Claude Opus 5.5 p95 time to first token is 9.46 seconds via Anthropic over the trailing 7 days. Lower time to first token means the model begins responding sooner for chat, agents and model workloads.

Where can I use Claude Opus 5.5?

Claude Opus 5.5 is available through 1 provider including Anthropic.

Where is the Claude Opus 5.5 paper or technical report?

Claude Opus 5.5 has a paper or technical report available at https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-5-system-card. Use that source for architecture, training, release and evaluation details.

What models should I compare Claude Opus 5.5 against?

Common Claude Opus 5.5 comparisons include Claude Opus 5.5 vs Claude Mythos Preview, Claude Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6 Astra, Claude Opus 5.5 vs Muse Spark 1.3. Compare them side by side for benchmark scores, pricing, context window, latency and provider availability.