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Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.5
DEPLOYif you run long-horizon coding agents
WHAT SHIPPEDClaude Opus 4.5 is available today on Anthropic's apps, API, and all three major cloud platforms at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens. It leads 7 out of 8 programming languages on SWE-bench Multilingual and scores a 10.6% jump over Sonnet 4.5 on Aider Polyglot.
THE CATCHThe model scored higher than any human candidate ever on Anthropic's internal performance engineering take-home exam within the 2-hour time limit, and it found a legitimate workaround on τ2-bench that the benchmark scored as a failure because the solution was unanticipated.
IF YOU RUNproduction code review at scale, Opus 4.5 catches more issues without sacrificing precision
SOURCEAnthropic, Introducing Claude Opus 4.5
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