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Claude Opus 5.5

Reasoning effort

Claude Opus 5.5 is an Anthropic proprietary reasoning model, released 22 Sept 2026. Its best configuration (max reasoning effort) ranks #1 of 775 on the BenchLeader Index at 72.7 ±5.6, in the top ten. The ± is the point: 27 other configurations score within that range, so they and this one cannot be told apart on quality alone — price and speed are what separate them. It scores highest in composite (94) and lowest in agents & tools (64). At $8.00 per million tokens blended it is among the most expensive ranked models. Output speed of 95 tokens per second puts it faster than most, with a first answer in 608.7 s. It has been measured at 6 reasoning-effort settings; this summary describes the best-scoring one, and the tabs above switch between them. Last measured 19 Oct 2026.

Blended price
$8.00/M
$4.00 in · $20.00 out
Output speed
95 tok/s
measured by Artificial Analysis
First answer
609 s
first token 4.10 s
Context
1M
Full answer
614 s
median, reasoning included
Cost per run
$5.98
one full Intelligence Index run
Released
22 Sept 2026
How it scores by categoryDashed line = average model (50). One step of 15 = one standard deviation.
  1. Overall index73
  2. Reasoning76
  3. Coding82
  4. Agents & tools64
  5. Maths74
  6. Knowledge79
  7. Multimodal71
  8. Long context68
  9. Composite94

Versions

Anthropic has shipped 9 models under this name. Each is ranked on its own results; a newer version often has fewer results so far, which holds its index nearer the average until more arrive.

ModelReleasedIndexRank
Claude Opus 5.5maxthis page22 Sept 202672.7#1
Claude Opus 5max24 Jul 202668.9#15
Claude Opus 4.8max28 May 202663.4#64
Claude Opus 4.716 Apr 202663.4#63
Claude Opus 4.6high5 Feb 202662.9#76
Claude Opus 4.5thinking24 Nov 202560.0#119
Claude Opus 4.1thinking5 Aug 202556.5#199
Claude Opus 4thinking22 May 202555.1#230
Claude 3 Opus4 Mar 202439.2#681

Reasoning-effort configurations

The same model behaves differently depending on how much it is allowed to think. Each row is one setting, scored only on the benchmarks that were run at that setting. “Not stated” collects results from publishers that did not say which setting they used; for a reasoning model that is usually its thinking mode, but we do not assume it. Pick a setting here or at the top of the page to see its price, speed and category scores.

EffortIndexRankSpeedFirst answerChat reply costCategories
low64.7#4680 tok/s5.98 s$0.0076Coding 66 · Composite 77 · Knowledge 79 · Long context 65 · Multimodal 68 · Reasoning 66
medium66.5#3181 tok/s23 s$0.0076Agents & tools 53 · Coding 68 · Composite 87 · Knowledge 80 · Long context 67 · Multimodal 69 · Reasoning 77
high69.4#1280 tok/s34 s$0.0076Coding 69 · Composite 90 · Human preference 71 · Knowledge 80 · Long context 67 · Maths 69 · Multimodal 68 · Reasoning 78
xhigh70.1#684 tok/s114 s$0.0076Coding 75 · Composite 92 · Knowledge 81 · Long context 68 · Multimodal 70 · Reasoning 80
maxbest72.7#195 tok/s609 s$0.0076Agents & tools 64 · Coding 82 · Composite 94 · Knowledge 79 · Long context 68 · Maths 74 · Multimodal 71 · Reasoning 76
not stated61.9#9373 tok/s4.10 s$0.0076Agents & tools 72 · Coding 74 · Composite 71 · Knowledge 55

What more thinking costs

Turning the effort up buys index points and multiplies the bill. Here max costs 11× low for +8.0 on the index — 2.3 points per doubling of spend. Compare that with other models.

low $0.551max $5.98

How its index has moved

22 Sept 2026 to 20 Oct 2026
617078
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The index is recomputed from scratch every day, so a line moves when a new benchmark result lands, when a publisher revises a score, or when the models it is normalised against change. Early movement usually means the score is still settling.

Benchmark results

See all LLM benchmarks. One column per reasoning effort. Rank is among every configuration of every model on that benchmark. Hover a score for the run it came from.

Reasoning

Benchmarklowmediumhighxhighmaxnot statedSourceTrend
GPQA Diamond––––90.6%#40–Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
Arena Hard Prompts––1533#2–––Arena (LMArena)
LiveBench 2.0 Reasoningnot in indexeffort not stated–––––92.2%#4LiveBench
LiveBench 1.0 Reasoningnot in index–––90.7%#1092.2%#3–LiveBench
Humanity's Last Exam (AA)not in index48.3%#3354.7%#1155.6%#757.5%#461.4%#1–Artificial Analysis
ARC-AGI-188.5%#8197.5%#1298.5%#197.5%#1297.5%#12–ARC Prize
ARC-AGI-270.1%#5687.5%#2393.3%#392.5%#591.7%#9–ARC Prize
CritPt17.7%#7327.7%#2930.9%#1231.7%#331.7%#3–Artificial Analysis
MysteryMechanismnot in indexeffort not stated–––––49.5%#2Vals AI
Chess Puzzlesnot in index––––67.0%#5–Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
Mystery Game Puzzlesnot in index––––71.0%#3–Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
LMCAnot in index64.9%#1365.7%#765.9%#666.2%#468.2%#2–Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
DTBenchnot in index95.5%#3896.5%#2296.5%#2297.3%#998.9%#1–Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub

Coding

Benchmarklowmediumhighxhighmaxnot statedSourceTrend
SciCode58.6%#2259.3%#1460.4%#965.0%#266.9%#1–SciCode
FrontierCode–54.6%#1––––Cognition
Arena Coding––1548#6–––Arena (LMArena)
Arena WebDev––––1807#1–Arena (LMArena)
LiveBench 2.0 Codingnot in indexeffort not stated–––––96.3%#3LiveBench
LiveBench 1.0 Codingnot in index–––89.3%#289.3%#2–LiveBench
SciCode (AA)not in index58.6%#2259.3%#1560.4%#1065.0%#266.9%#1–Artificial Analysis
IOIeffort not stated–––––95.1%#4Vals AI
Code Migrationnot in indexeffort not stated–––––66.7%#4Vals AI
ProgramBenchnot in indexeffort not stated–––––18.5%#1Vals AI
Vibe Code Bench 1-100not in indexeffort not stated–––––30.4%#2Vals AI
Vibe Code Bench v1.1not in indexeffort not stated–––––90.3%#5Vals AI
MirrorCodenot in index––––77.4%#1–Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
CursorBenchnot in index43.7%#2852.5%#856.0%#256.0%#257.8%#1–Cursor
ALE-Benchnot in index––2147.4#6–––Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
FrontierSWEnot in index––––62.3%#2–Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA)not in index31.3%#4352.5%#1456.6%#959.6%#259.6%#2–Artificial Analysis
Startrise Frontendnot in index––80.2%#2––71.1%#17Startrise
FrontierCode 1.1 (AA)not in index42.7%#1957.0%#154.0%#253.5%#352.2%#4–Artificial Analysis

Agents & tools

Benchmarklowmediumhighxhighmaxnot statedSourceTrend
Terminal-Bench––––64.8%#11–Terminal-Bench
Remote Labor Indexeffort not stated–––––21.3%#1Scale AI / CAIS
APEX-Agents–52.5%#25––73.5%#3–Mercor
Arena Agent––––20.4#1–Arena (LMArena)
LiveBench Long Agenticnot in indexeffort not stated–––––85.0%#1LiveBench
LiveBench Browsernot in indexeffort not stated–––––80.0%#16LiveBench
LiveBench Agentic Codingnot in index–––65.3%#471.7%#2–LiveBench
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals)effort not stated–––––87.6%#1Vals AI
HiL-Bencheffort not stated–––––59.0%#8Scale AI SEAL
GDPval-AA v2.1not in index36.8%#11454.2%#3860.2%#1366.5%#468.3%#1–Artificial Analysis
ITBench SRE (AA)not in index––––38.2%#23–Artificial Analysis
Analyst Agent (AA)not in index––––56.3%#4–Artificial Analysis
CUA-benchnot in index––––14.0%#2–Vals AI
CyberBenchnot in indexeffort not stated–––––55.4%#37Vals AI
Finance Agent v2not in indexeffort not stated–––––58.6%#11Vals AI
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmarknot in indexeffort not stated–––––9.2%#15Vals AI
Legal Research Benchnot in indexeffort not stated–––––50.5%#6Vals AI
SREBenchnot in indexeffort not stated–––––33.6%#4Vals AI
Tax Agent Benchnot in indexeffort not stated–––––45.6%#2Vals AI
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals)not in indexeffort not stated–––––65.2%#1Vals AI
Terminal-Bench Sciencenot in indexeffort not stated–––––47.1%#3Vals AI
Time Horizon Index: KSPnot in indexeffort not stated–––––91.3%#1Vals AI
Arena Searchnot in index–1211#11––––Arena (LMArena)
Vending-Bench 2not in indexeffort not stated–––––9235.3#10Andon Labs
AutomationBenchnot in index52.9%#6961.2%#3163.2%#2365.0%#1769.5%#5–Artificial Analysis
GDP.pdf (AA)not in index25.6%#2725.6%#2728.8%#1226.6%#2026.2%#22–Artificial Analysis
Harvey LAB-AA v1.1not in index––––4.2%#9–Harvey
AA-Briefcase v1.1not in index–1625#141686#61764#31803#2–Artificial Analysis
Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 (AA)not in index24.3%#1443.3%#949.0%#861.9%#259.0%#3–Artificial Analysis
CWE-Bench (AA)––––58.3%#6–Artificial Analysis
DeepSec-Bench (AA)––––26.9%#5–Artificial Analysis
CyberGym end-to-end (AA)––––0.8%#14–Artificial Analysis
FACTS Searchnot in indexeffort not stated–––––86.5%#4Google

Knowledge

Benchmarklowmediumhighxhighmaxnot statedSourceTrend
SimpleQA Verified––––72.2%#5–Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
LiveBench 2.0 Data Analysisnot in indexeffort not stated–––––80.3%#8LiveBench
LiveBench Researchnot in indexeffort not stated–––––85.0%#8LiveBench
LiveBench 1.0 Data Analysisnot in index–––79.8%#1180.3%#8–LiveBench
AA-Omniscience38.9#1940.3#1740.6#1542.6#746.4#1–Artificial Analysis
PRBench Legaleffort not stated–––––47.6%#20Scale AI SEAL
BioMysteryBenchnot in indexeffort not stated–––––79.3%#3Vals AI
Excel Modeling Benchmarknot in indexeffort not stated–––––75.9%#2Vals AI
MedCodenot in indexeffort not stated–––––49.8%#19Vals AI
MedScribenot in indexeffort not stated–––––91.4%#1Vals AI
Public Benefits Benchnot in indexeffort not stated–––––70.6%#4Vals AI
EBR-benchnot in index––––71.4%#2–Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
GDP.pdfnot in index––––30.6%#7–Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
AA-Omniscience: accuracynot in index63.5%#964.5%#864.6%#765.4%#466.2%#2–Artificial Analysis
AA-Omniscience: non-hallucinationnot in index32.4%#20731.6%#21132.4%#20634.3%#19141.4%#152–Artificial Analysis

Instruction following

BenchmarkhighxhighmaxSourceTrend
LiveBench Languagenot in index–85.5%#1286.3%#10LiveBench
LiveBench Instruction Followingnot in index–67.0%#3865.7%#42LiveBench
Arena Instruction Followingnot in index1518#2––Arena (LMArena)

Human preference

Multimodal

Benchmarklowmediumhighxhighmaxnot statedSourceTrend
Arena Vision––1321#2–––Arena (LMArena)
LiveBench Designnot in indexeffort not stated–––––86.9%#1LiveBench
MMMU-Pro84.7%#1785.7%#885.8%#786.6%#387.7%#1–Artificial Analysis
SAGEnot in indexeffort not stated–––––45.8%#37Vals AI
Blueprint-Bench 2not in indexeffort not stated–––––51.2%#2Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
AA-3Dnot in index––––1191#2–Artificial Analysis

Long context

BenchmarklowmediumhighxhighmaxSourceTrend
AA-LCR80.7%#6484.3%#882.7%#3584.7%#584.7%#5Artificial Analysis
MLCRnot in index––––66.7%#3Artificial Analysis

Composite

Benchmarklowmediumhighxhighmaxnot statedSourceTrend
Epoch Capabilities Indexnot in indexeffort not stated–––––168.8#1Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
LiveBench 2.0effort not stated–––––86.5%#2LiveBench
LiveBench 1.0not in index–––82.1%#583.2%#2–LiveBench
AA Intelligence Index v4.3.242.3#5151.2#1453.6#556.0#357.6#1–Artificial Analysis
Vals Indexnot in indexeffort not stated–––––70.2#2Vals AI
AA Cyber Indexnot in index––––28.7#13–Artificial Analysis

Safety & honesty

Benchmarkmaxnot statedSourceTrend
FORTRESSnot in index5.8%#6813.2%#59Scale AI SEAL

Where it wins

Benchmarks where this configuration ranks in the top five of every configuration measured.

Where to run it

Every provider serving this model through OpenRouter, with throughput and first-token latency measured on live traffic over the last 30 minutes and each provider’s own price. Purple marks the best in each column.

ProviderSpeedFirst tokenInput $/MOutput $/MContextQuantisation
Anthropic205 tok/s1.38 s$8.00$40.001M–
Google Vertex86 tok/s3.43 s$4.00$20.001M–
Google Vertex85 tok/s2.64 s$4.40$22.001M–
Claude Platform on AWS80 tok/s3.83 s$4.00$20.001M–
Amazon Bedrock79 tok/s4.35 s$4.00$20.001M–
Anthropic77 tok/s3.53 s$4.00$20.001M–
Amazon Bedrock76 tok/s3.44 s$4.40$22.001M–
Amazon Bedrock72 tok/s1.96 s$4.40$22.001M–
Azure69 tok/s2.93 s$4.00$20.001M–

What a task costs

Estimates from list price, output speed and time to first answer for the best configuration. “With caching” assumes three-quarters of the input is served from the prompt cache at $0.200 per 1M. Reasoning tokens are not modelled.

WorkloadTokens in / outCostWith cachingTime
Chat reply400 / 300$0.0076$0.006510.2 min
Summarize a 30-page report12,000 / 600$0.060$0.02610.3 min
Code edit6,000 / 1,500$0.054$0.03710.4 min
Agentic coding session60,000 / 4,000$0.320$0.14910.8 min
Structured extraction2,000 / 200$0.012$0.006310.2 min

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Cite as: BenchLeader, “Claude Opus 5.5: benchmarks, pricing, speed and rank”, https://www.benchleader.com/models/claude-opus-5-5, data as of 21 Oct 2026.