What is Claude Opus 5.5?
Claude Opus 5.5 is Anthropic’s high-capability AI model for advanced coding, research, business work, computer use, and extended agentic tasks. It is designed to operate effectively on large and complex workloads that require planning, sustained context, tool use, verification, and multiple execution steps. In software engineering, Opus 5.5 can be used for codebase-wide migrations, debugging, audits, optimization, code review, and other long-running development projects. The model also supports knowledge-intensive work such as financial analysis, legal research, spreadsheet creation, executive presentations, data collection, and professional reporting. Anthropic reports that Opus 5.5 improves both task efficiency and serving efficiency compared with Opus 5, including lower token usage, faster output, and reduced cost on typical workloads. Its writing and communication behavior has been updated to prioritize important information, reduce unclear phrasing, and better follow requested style constraints. Opus 5.5 also includes stronger safeguards for autonomous and tool-using scenarios, including action screening, improved prompt-injection resistance, sandbox support, and vulnerability detection during code review. Anthropic applies additional safeguards to cybersecurity, biology, and model-distillation use cases, with expanded access programs available to verified organizations in certain sensitive fields. The model supports zero data retention and includes watermarking measures intended to support compliance requirements such as the EU AI Act. Developers can access Opus 5.5 through the Claude Platform using the claude-opus-5-5 model, while Claude Code and other Anthropic products can use it for interactive and agentic work. Claude Opus 5.5 is also available through Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure for organizations that prefer to deploy through major cloud platforms.
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Cache reads, which account for most costs in agentic and coding workloads, are priced at just $0.20 per million tokens which is 60% cheaper than Opus 5. Opus 5.5 also delivers output over 30% faster than its predecessor.
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Opus 5.5 is GREAT
Date: Sep 23 2026SummaryOverall, Claude Opus 5.5 is one of the best models I have used for serious coding and long-running agent work. It feels faster, more efficient, and more dependable than Opus 5 without giving up the depth I want from a top-tier model.
PositiveAfter using it, the biggest thing I notice is how much better it is at sustained work. It stays organized across long coding sessions, multi-file changes, research tasks, and agent workflows without needing nearly as much babysitting. The coding performance is excellent. Anthropic reports 54.6% on FrontierCode 1.1 at default effort, ahead of GPT-6 Astra’s reported 53.3%, and I can see why. It is especially good at understanding a large task, making sensible changes, and avoiding unnecessary edits. I also really like the efficiency. At $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens, plus much cheaper cache reads, Opus 5.5 is easier to use heavily than Opus 5. Anthropic says typical workloads come out around 40% cheaper overall. Another improvement is the writing. It is noticeably less verbose and easier to follow, which matters a lot during long sessions when I need to quickly understand what the model changed and why.
NegativeThe main downside is that it is still a premium model, so I would not waste it on every trivial task. And like any coding agent, I still review diffs, run tests, and keep permissions tight.
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