Claude Opus 4.6

Overview

Claude Opus 4.6 is the latest iteration of Anthropic's flagship AI model Claude Opus 4.5. Building upon the 4.5 version's exceptional intelligence, top-tier performance, and profound ethical considerations, it further enhances complex reasoning capabilities, the refinement of multimodal understanding, and performance in specific professional domains, aiming to provide users with a more powerful and precise AI experience.

Key Features

Enhanced Complex Reasoning: Deeply optimized multi-step, cross-domain, and abstract concept reasoning capabilities beyond the 4.5 version, performing even better in solving highly complex scientific, engineering, and legal problems.
Refined Multimodal Understanding: Improved detail capture and contextual correlation for non-textual information such as images, charts, and videos, enabling more accurate understanding and analysis of complex multimodal inputs.
Deepened Professional Domain Knowledge: Expanded knowledge breadth and depth in specific professional fields (e.g., advanced financial analysis, drug discovery, complex system design), offering more insightful expert advice.
Distinction from 4.5 Version: The 4.6 version primarily focuses on depth and precision improvements, rather than significant changes in speed or cost. It provides more reliable and detailed outputs than 4.5 when dealing with tasks requiring ultimate accuracy and profound understanding.

Best Use Cases

Cutting-Edge Scientific Research: Assists scientists in complex data analysis, theoretical validation, and the exploration of new discoveries.
Advanced Strategic Consulting: Provides strategic decision support for corporate executives based on vast information and deep analysis.
Legal and Compliance Review: Processes extremely complex legal texts, performs risk assessment, and compliance analysis.
Innovative Content Generation: Creates content requiring high originality, logical rigor, and professional depth, such as research reports, technical whitepapers, and high-end market analysis.

Capabilities and Limitations

Capability	Detailed Description
Reasoning Ability	Top-tier and even stronger. Further enhanced beyond 4.5, particularly adept at problems requiring deep thought and abstract logic.
Creative Ability	Extremely Strong. Can generate logically rigorous, insightful, and elegantly styled texts of all kinds, and handle more complex creative instructions.
Multimodal Ability	Powerful and more refined. Enhanced ability to extract information and insights from complex visual materials, capable of processing more subtle multimodal information.
Response Speed	Slow. As a flagship model, its response speed is relatively slow, suitable for tasks that demand the highest quality and are not time-sensitive.
Context Window	Huge. Supports an ultra-long context window, capable of processing ultra-large documents and codebases.

Pricing

Model	Input (Credits/Token)	Output (Credits/Token)
Claude Opus 4.6	5.00	25.00