Anthropic: Claude Opus 4
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 is a flagship-tier model with strong reasoning, coding, and agentic performance, full multimodal support, and excellent instruction-following — making it one of the most capable models for demanding business use from a trusted provider. Its high price ($15/$75 per million tokens) is the main limitation, but for complex, high-stakes tasks it delivers genuine top-tier capability.
Assessment date: April 4, 2026
Our methodology takes into account a range of factors including pricing, functionality, capabilities, benchmark performance, and real-world applicability. Rankings are reviewed and updated regularly as new models are released. Issues with our rankings? Contact us
Performance Profile
Claude Opus 4 is benchmarked as the world’s best coding model, at time of release, bringing sustained performance on complex, long-running tasks and agent workflows. It sets new benchmarks in software engineering, achieving leading results on SWE-bench (72.5%) and Terminal-bench (43.2%). Opus 4 supports extended, agentic workflows, handling thousands of task steps continuously for hours without degradation.
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text + Image + File → Text |
| Tokenizer | Claude |
Performance Indices
Source: Artificial Analysis
Benchmark Scores
Intelligence
Technical
Content
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
Model Information
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $15.00 | $0.015000 |
| Output | $75.00 | $0.075000 |
