Introducing Claude Opus 5.5AnthropicReleased September 22, 2026

Claude Opus 5.5

Anthropic Claude model for long-running agentic coding and knowledge work.

reasoning-llmProprietary APIUSD 4 / 1M input tok; USD 20 / 1M output tokContext: 1M (1,000,000 tokens)

Technical Specifications

Architecture Type
Dense Transformer / MoE
Total Parameters
Undisclosed
Context Window
1M (1,000,000 tokens)
Max Output Tokens
128K (128,000 tokens)
Knowledge Cutoff
June 2026
Supported Modalities
text, code, vision, reasoning
License & Access
Proprietary API

Deep Architectural Overview

Claude Opus 5.5 provides adaptive thinking, 1M-token context, 128K maximum output, text and image input, text output, vision, and tool use.

Strengths & Considerations

Core Strengths
  • Long-running agentic coding
  • Knowledge work
  • Vision and tool use

Token & API Pricing

Input Tokens (1M)$4.00
Output Tokens (1M)$20.00
Cached Input (1M)$0.2000
Pricing is verified directly against Anthropic's developer documentation and API rate sheets.

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