AI Model2026-05-17
Claude Opus
Also known as: Claude Opus / Opus / claude-opus-4
Anthropic's top-tier model series — excelling at long-context reasoning, complex coding, and vision tasks, and posting top scores on benchmarks like SWE-bench.
Overview
Claude Opus 4.7 achieved 87.6% on SWE-bench and 98.5% on vision benchmarks, introducing xhigh reasoning mode and Task Budgets for agentic tasks. See Claude Opus 4.7 full breakdown.
When to use
Best for large-scale code review, long-document analysis, and complex multi-step agentic pipelines. Higher cost than Sonnet and Haiku means task-based routing is recommended.
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