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Claude Opus 4
by Anthropic
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.
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About Claude Opus 4
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.
Best for
Hard reasoning, architecture reviews, and high-stakes agent plans
Use cases
- architecture reviews
- complex debugging
- strategy memos
- eval judges
Enterprise DNA angle
Use Opus where judgment matters; Omni routes cheaper models for bulk work and reserves Opus for the hard steps.
Notes
Claude Opus 4 is listed in the EDNA Models directory from the OpenRouter catalogue.
Pros
- Top-tier reasoning for hard planning and analysis
- Strong coding on complex multi-step tasks
- Vision support for screenshots and docs
Cons
- Higher $/Mtoken than Sonnet or open models
- Overkill for simple classification or extraction
Key facts
What we have checked
- Gpqa diamond
- 76.3% (for 22 May 2025)
- Swe bench verified
- 70.7% (for 22 May 2025)
- Arc agi 2
- 8.6% (for 22 May 2025)
- Aider polyglot
- 72% (for 22 May 2025)
- Arc agi
- 35.7% (for 22 May 2025)
- Cybench
- 38% (for 22 May 2025)
- Deepresearch bench
- 46.8% (for 22 May 2025)
- Dtbench
- 81.6% (for 22 May 2025)
- Fiction livebench
- 61.1% (for 22 May 2025)
- Frontiermath 2025 02 28 private
- 4.5% (for 22 May 2025)
- Frontiermath tier 4 2025 07 01 private
- 4.2% (for 22 May 2025)
- Geobench
- 49% (for 22 May 2025)
Each value shows when we last confirmed it and where it came from. Values we have not confirmed are left out, never guessed.
API access
How to call it
Call via OpenRouter with model id `anthropic/claude-opus-4`.
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anthropic/claude-opus-4· Docs
OpenRouter id: anthropic/claude-opus-4
Scores
How Claude Opus 4 scores
Each score comes from the named source and shows when we last confirmed it. A flag means the score needs care.
| Score | Value | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglot (best-across-versions) | 72percentAs of 22 May 2025 | Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0) | |
| Arc agi (best-across-versions) | 35.7percentAs of 22 May 2025 | Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0) | |
| Arc agi 2 (best-across-versions) | 8.6percentAs of 22 May 2025 | Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0) | |
| Cybench (best-across-versions) | 38percentAs of 22 May 2025 | Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0) | |
| Deepresearch bench (best-across-versions) | 46.8percentAs of 22 May 2025 | Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0) | |
| Dtbench (best-across-versions) | 81.6percentAs of 22 May 2025 | Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0) | |
| Fiction livebench (best-across-versions) | 61.1percentAs of 22 May 2025 | Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0) | |
| Frontiermath 2025 02 28 private (best-across-versions) | 4.5percentAs of 22 May 2025 | Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0) | |
| Frontiermath tier 4 2025 07 01 private (best-across-versions) | 4.2percentAs of 22 May 2025 | Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0) | |
| Geobench (best-across-versions) | 49percentAs of 22 May 2025 | Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0) | |
| Gpqa diamond (best-across-versions) | 76.3percentAs of 22 May 2025 | Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0) | |
| Gso bench (best-across-versions) | 6.9percentAs of 22 May 2025 | Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0) |
Show 9 more scores
| Score | Value | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lech mazur writing (best-across-versions) | 83.6percentAs of 22 May 2025 | Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0) | |
| Lmca (best-across-versions) | 37.4percentAs of 22 May 2025 | Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0) | |
| Math level 5 (best-across-versions) | 85percentAs of 22 May 2025 | Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0) | |
| Metr time horizons (best-across-versions) | 63.9percentAs of 22 May 2025 | Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0) | |
| Otis mock aime 2024 2025 (best-across-versions)Saturated | 64.4percentAs of 22 May 2025 | Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0) | |
| Simplebench (best-across-versions) | 58.8percentAs of 22 May 2025 | Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0) | |
| Swe bench verified (best-across-versions) | 70.7percentAs of 22 May 2025 | Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0) | |
| Vpct (best-across-versions) | 38percentAs of 22 May 2025 | Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0) | |
| Weirdml (best-across-versions) | 43.7percentAs of 22 May 2025 | Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0) |
- Saturated
- Top models score close to the maximum, so this test no longer separates them.
Sources
Where this comes from
- Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)Third party
- Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)Third party
- Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)Third party
- Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)Third party
- Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)Third party
- Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)Third party
- Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)Third party
- Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)Third party
- Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)Third party
- Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)Third party
- Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)Third party
- Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)Third party
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Changelog
What changed
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MODEL FIELD GUIDE / SOURCE EVIDENCE
What you can do with Claude Opus 4.
No longer listed by its catalogue; the facts shown are as last listed. Sources checked 2026-11-07. Hosting routes and app features can differ.
anthropic/claude-opus-4- Tool calling
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- Structured output
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- Reasoning controls
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- Availability
- unknown
- Price basis
- token
- Licence verification
- Check the developer licence; the model name is insufficient
- Context length
- Not established
- Knowledge cutoff
- Not established
- Developer release date
- Not established
- First seen in the catalogue
- Not established
- Listed retirement date
- Not established
- Last listed by its catalogue
- 20 Sept 2026
Not in the OpenRouter catalogue when checked; last listed 2026-09-20. Retirement is not confirmed by a source.
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