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Claude Opus 4.6 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)

Claude Opus · Released 2026-02-05

AA Intelligence Index 43.7. Listed on Artificial Analysis with API pricing $5/$25 per 1M tokens. Benchmark rows sync from the AA snapshot — see the ledger on this page.

Frontier model tracked on Artificial Analysis. Use the benchmark ledger below for sourced scores; we do not infer numbers beyond published rows.

#16 of 51 on AA Index · current snapshot
44 AA Index · 10 benchmark rows · 1 sourcesPosition is benchmark-specific — not a cross-family or cross-source ranking.
Composite60
Context128K
Input / 1M$5.0
Output / 1M$25
Knowledge cutoffopen
Output speed64 t/s
TTFT (default API)14.02s
Statussolid
ReasoningCodingAgenticLong context
Reasoning
90
Coding
52
Agentic
92
Long context
71

76average across 4 tested families

Benchmark placements

Where Claude Opus 4.6 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) places on each public benchmark source that publishes a row. Rank counts every model with a latest row in the same test — not a universal quality score.

BenchmarkFamilyRankScoreSourceDate
τ³-Bench BankingAgentic#4/ 6492Artificial Analysis2026-07-21
AA-LCRLong context#17/ 6471Artificial Analysis2026-07-21
AA time to first tokenPerformance#17/ 69Artificial Analysis2026-07-21
SciCodeCoding#22/ 6552Artificial Analysis2026-07-21
Humanity's Last ExamReasoning#24/ 6537Artificial Analysis2026-07-21
Artificial Analysis Intelligence IndexReasoning#25/ 6744Artificial Analysis2026-07-21
GPQA DiamondReasoning#25/ 6990Artificial Analysis2026-07-21
AA output speedPerformance#43/ 69Artificial Analysis2026-07-21
IFBenchReasoning#47/ 5753Artificial Analysis2026-07-21
Terminal-BenchAgentic#47/ 6946Artificial Analysis2026-07-21
Family context

The three highest-scoring carded models in each capability family. Where Claude Opus 4.6 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) shows up, it's highlighted.

ReasoningClaude Opus 4.6 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) · 90
  1. 1
    Claude Mythos Preview
    95
  2. 2
    GPT-5.6 Sol
    94
  3. 3
    Kimi K3
    94
CodingClaude Opus 4.6 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) · 52
  1. 1
    GPT 5.5
    96
  2. 2
    Claude Opus 4.8
    96
  3. 3
    Claude Opus 4.6
    96
AgenticClaude Opus 4.6 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) · 92
  1. 1
    GPT 5.5
    100
  2. 2
    Claude Opus 4.8
    100
  3. 3
    Claude Fable 5
    100
Long contextClaude Opus 4.6 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) · 71
  1. 1
    Kimi K3
    75
  2. 2
    GPT-5.1
    75
  3. 3
    GPT-5.6 Sol
    74
Newest receipts

Benchmark rows added to the public ledger for Claude Opus 4.6 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) in the last 120 days. Older rows live in the full table below.

10 recent
BenchmarkFamilyScoreSourceDays ago
AA-LCRLong context70.67%Artificial Analysis2
AA output speedPerformance64 t/sArtificial Analysis2
AA time to first tokenPerformance14.02sArtificial Analysis2
Artificial Analysis Intelligence IndexReasoning43.7%Artificial Analysis2
GPQA DiamondReasoning89.6%Artificial Analysis2
Humanity's Last ExamReasoning36.7%Artificial Analysis2
IFBenchReasoning53.13%Artificial Analysis2
SciCodeCoding51.9%Artificial Analysis2
τ³-Bench BankingAgentic92.11%Artificial Analysis2
Terminal-BenchAgentic46.21%Artificial Analysis2
Family coverage

A high composite that hides a weak family is a trap. These bars surface the families where this model hasn't been publicly tested, and where it leads.

Reasoning90
Coding52
Agentic92
Long context71
Price vs. performance
0255075100$0.10$0.30$1$3$10$30input USD / 1M tokens · log scale →← intelligence

Hover or tab any dot for name, score, and input price.

AnthropicOpenAIMistralAlibabaDeepSeekGoogleMoonshotMiniMaxxAIMetaZhipuXiaomiMeituanCohere

Full benchmark ledger

Every catalog benchmark for Claude Opus 4.6 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort). Scores link to the original source; gaps mean no public row exists yet.

10 sourced rows

10 of 32 catalog benchmarks have a sourced row for Claude Opus 4.6 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort).

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Coding

Agentic

Long context

Performance

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