Anthropic/Model/Claude/4.5/Opus
Key Features
- Released in November 2025
- Extended Thinking capability: Allows the model to deliberate on complex problems before generating an output
- Effort Parameter: Users can control reasoning depth with Low, Medium, and High effort settings, balancing speed and intelligence
- Multilingual support: Handles multiple languages effectively
- Vision processing: Processes and understands visual inputs
- Enhanced reasoning: Excels in complex reasoning tasks
- Context window: 200,000 tokens
- Maximum output: 64,000 tokens
- Knowledge cutoff: March 2025
- Model version status: Stable release
- Tool Search Capability: Enables dynamic discovery and utilization of tools without preloading all definitions, improving efficiency
Performance Highlights
- Industry-leading performance on complex reasoning tasks
- Enhanced Extended Thinking mode for improved response quality on complex tasks
- Optimized for advanced coding, agentic search, and creative writing
Model Tiers
- claude-opus-4-5
- Full-featured flagship model
- Best performance across all metrics
- Previous versions:
Access Details
- API availability: Available via
claude-opus-4-5-20251101 in the Claude API - Pricing:
- Input tokens: $5.00 per million tokens
- Output tokens: $25.00 per million tokens
- Available across multiple platforms:
- Anthropic API:
claude-opus-4-5-20251101 - AWS Bedrock:
anthropic.claude-opus-4-5-20251101-v1:0 - Google Vertex AI:
claude-opus-4-5@20251101 - Azure AI Foundry:
claude-opus-4-5-20251101
- SDK support:
- Python:
pip install -U "anthropic" - TypeScript:
npm install @anthropic-ai/foundry-sdk
- Effort parameter options:
- Low Effort: For simple tasks requiring quick responses
- Medium Effort: Balances speed and reasoning depth
- High Effort: Maximizes reasoning capabilities for complex tasks
Technical Specifications
- Model architecture: Details not specified
- Training data: Details not specified
- Input/output formats: Text, images, code
- Special capabilities:
- Extended Thinking mode for complex problem-solving
- Configurable effort levels (Low, Medium, High)
- Dynamic tool discovery and utilization
- Enhanced multilingual support
- Vision processing capabilities
- Advanced reasoning capabilities
- Model version code:
claude-opus-4-5-20251101 - Safety measures: Operates under strict safety protocols, including advanced cybersecurity measures and enhanced detection algorithms for harmful queries, as part of Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy
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