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Claude Opus 4.5 vs Claude Opus 4.6

A detailed comparison of pricing, benchmarks, and capabilities

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Key Takeaways

Claude Opus 4.5 wins:

  • Faster response time
  • Better at math

Claude Opus 4.6 wins:

  • Larger context window
  • Higher intelligence benchmark
  • Better at coding
Price Advantage
Claude Opus 4.5
Benchmark Advantage
Claude Opus 4.6
Context Window
Claude Opus 4.6
Speed
Claude Opus 4.5

Pricing Comparison

Benchmark Comparison

Context & Performance

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureClaude Opus 4.5Claude Opus 4.6
Vision (Image Input)
Tool/Function Calls
Reasoning Mode
Audio Input
Audio Output
PDF Input
Prompt Caching
Web Search

License & Release

PropertyClaude Opus 4.5Claude Opus 4.6
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
AuthorAnthropicAnthropic
ReleasedNov 2025Feb 2026

Claude Opus 4.5 Modalities

Input
fileimagetext
Output
text

Claude Opus 4.6 Modalities

Input
textimage
Output
text

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Frequently Asked Questions

Claude Opus 4.5 has cheaper input pricing at $5.00/M tokens. Claude Opus 4.5 has cheaper output pricing at $25.00/M tokens.
Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks with a score of 47.6, compared to Claude Opus 4.5's score of 42.9.
Claude Opus 4.5 has a 200,000 token context window, while Claude Opus 4.6 has a 1,000,000 token context window.
Claude Opus 4.5 supports vision. Claude Opus 4.6 supports vision.

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