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Key capabilities

About this model

Key model capabilities

• Extended thinking: Extended thinking gives Claude enhanced reasoning capabilities for complex tasks.
• Image & text input: With strong vision capabilities, Claude Opus 4.5 can process images and return text outputs to analyze and understand charts, graphs, technical diagrams, reports, and other visual assets.
• Computer use: Claude Opus 4.5 is Anthropic’s most accurate model for computer use, enabling developers to direct Claude to use computers the way people do.
• Advanced tool use: Build agents that can take action with three new capabilities–the tool search tool, programmatic tool calling, and tool use examples.

Use cases

Key use cases

• Coding: Opus 4.5 can confidently deliver multi-day software development projects in hours, working independently with the technical depth and taste to create efficient and straightforward solutions. It has improved performance across coding languages, with better planning and architecture choices—making it the ideal model for enterprise developers.
• Agents: Claude Opus 4.5, paired with our advanced tool use capabilities, enables more capable agents with new behaviors.
• Computer use: Our best computer-using model yet, Claude Opus 4.5 navigates new experiences with confident, consistent approaches that deliver more human-like browsing, enabling better web QA, workflow automation, and advanced user experiences.
• Enterprise workflows: Opus 4.5 can power agents that manage sprawling professional projects from start to finish. It better leverages memory to maintain context and consistency across files, alongside a step-change improvement in creating spreadsheets, slides, and docs.
• Financial analysis: Opus 4.5 connects the dots across complex information systems—regulatory filings, market reports, internal data—making sophisticated predictive modeling and proactive compliance possible.
• Cybersecurity: Opus 4.5 brings professional-grade analysis to security workflows, correlating logs, vulnerability databases, and threat intelligence for proactive threat detection and automated incident response.

Out of scope use cases

Pricing

Technical specs

Training cut-off date

Input formats

Supported language

Supported Azure regions

Sample JSON response

Success response:

200:

{
  "content": [
    {
      "text": "Hi! My name is Claude.",
      "type": "text"
    }
  ],
  "id": "msg_013Zva2CMHLNnXjNJJKqJ2EF",
  "model": "claude-opus-4-5-20251101",
  "role": "assistant",
  "stop_reason": "end_turn",
  "stop_sequence": null,
  "type": "message",
  "usage": {
    "input_tokens": 31,
    "cache_creation_input_tokens": 0,
    "cache_read_input_tokens": 0,
    "cache_creation": {
      "ephemeral_5m_input_tokens": 0,
      "ephemeral_1h_input_tokens": 0
    },
    "output_tokens": 25,
    "service_tier": "standard"
  }
}

Error response:

4XX:

{ "error": { "message": "Invalid request", "type": "invalid_request_error" }, "request_id": "", "type": "error" }

Model architecture

Long context

Optimizing model performance

Additional assets

• Claude Documentation : Visit Anthropic’s Claude documentation for a wealth of resources on model capabilities, prompting techniques, use case guidelines, and more.
• Extended Thinking Guide : Understand how best to use extended thinking with Claude.
• Claude Prompting Resources : Check out Anthropic's prompting tools and guides to learn how to craft prompts that elicit more helpful, nuanced responses.
• Claude Cookbooks : Check out example code for a variety of complex tasks, such as RAG from various web sources, making SQL queries, function calling, multimodal prompting, and more.

Distribution channels

• Claude API: For developers interested in building agents, Claude Opus 4.5 is available on the Claude Developer Platform.
• Claude Code: Use Claude Opus 4.5 with Anthropic’s industry-leading coding agent, Claude Code.

More information

Data handling